STOP DEVELOPMENT AT BISHOP TUBE

The proposal to build 92 homes on the highly contaminated Bishop Tube site in East Whiteland Township without even a remediation plan in place, let alone the full and protective one needed, was approved by the Board of Supervisors at their February 2021 meeting. This shocking turn of events needs an immediate legal response. We need your support so we can take the Township to court for their failure to properly protect the community, enforce applicable law, and fulfill their constitutional duty to protect the environmental rights of township residents and those who live downstream.

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network is already in court challenging the sweetheart deal the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection provided the developer without proper protections or public input, and is also in court challenging the State's failure to take meaningful action to clean up the signficant and dangerous contamination at the site, including from TCE.

It is critical we have the additional resources necessary to challenge the Township's approval too. We need your support to pay the attorneys and experts necessary to pursue this important third legal action as well as our ongoing legal actions against the state.  

Please donate today to ensure we have the funds necessary to hire all the experts we need to pursue this critical suite of cases essential for securing appropriate clean up of the Bishop Tube site and its eventual protection as natural open space for the benefit of the community.

Experts and lawyers are making the case for community and environmental protection. Your support can help ensure we have all of the resources needed to see these cases to successful conclusion. 

Developer Brian O'Neill and his corporate counterparts pursued multiple legal actions to silence the Delaware Riverkeeper Network and members of the community by filing false legal claims of defamation. Both the Court of Common Pleas and Superior Court dismissed the claims as baseless -- recognizing our constitutional rights to speak truthfully in defense of our environment and communities. It was only because the Delaware Riverkeeper Network was able to bring lawyers and legal resources to defend against the developer's specious legal claims that the rights of the people were vindicated.  

We need your financial support to help us hire the experts and attorneys, and support the community effort to seek and secure full clean up of the Bishop Tube site to the highest legal standards by all responsible parties;  and to help us secure protection of the site as natural open space, so our East Whiteland, Chester County, and Valley Creek communities that have been most affected by the site's contaminated and degraded conditions are protected and benefited by a healthy, natural, clean and green Bishop Tube site.  

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