Wm. H. Evans

Review of Linvilla Orchards

Linvilla has always been fun for children and adul...

Linvilla has always been fun for children and adults trapped with the limitations of suburban outdoor living. But recently the Linvill family decided to sell to Sunoco Logistics a route across their farm to install a pair of pipelines that will transport Marcellus shale gas across the state for export to Europe.
This gas is a highly compressed mix of inflammable and explosive gases that if it leaks has the power of a small nuclear bomb.
Sunoco Logistics has an abominable safety record but has been allowed by state regulators to call itself a public utility when it is neither public nor a utility - there is no public benefit and the pipeline serves no utilitarian purpose except to enrich its owners.
Allowing these pipelines to run through dense residential neighborhoods, adjacent to public schools, under local roads, across suburban properties and community parks is simply unconscionable.
For Linvilla to have succumbed to the bribes Sunoco Logistics has been paying local governments and willing residents is beyond the pale.
For this reason I am boycotting Linvilla and am saddened to have lost this wonderful opportunity to the greed that money compromises some people and most of our local elected representatives.