Posted on 03/16/2012 11:28:04 AM PDT by dickmc
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Shell Oil Co. has chosen a site near Pittsburgh for a major, multi-billion-dollar petrochemical refinery that could create thousands of construction jobs and provide a huge economic boost to the region.
Dan Carlson, Shell's General Manager of New Business Development, said Thursday that the company signed a land option agreement with Horsehead Corp. to evaluate a site near Monaca, about 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
The so-called ethane cracking, or cracker, plant would convert ethane from bountiful Marcellus Shale natural gas liquids into more profitable chemicals such as ethylene, which are then used to produce everything from plastics to tires to antifreeze.
(Excerpt) Read more at manufacturing.net ...
For the entire article, see http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2012/03/pittsburgh-area-site-is-chosen-for-major-refinery
(Another benefit of fracking which has been a huge boost for PA while NY is fighting it.)
Come to Canada.
Come see our Rocky Mountains and build your Obama-free refineries. :)
Watch the NIMBYs and Eco-Nazi’s come out of the woodwork. They’ll find something - maybe a brown leaf fungus that needs protection.
Sadly I believe this will never be allowed to happen.
And the Department of Energy will back the EPA.
The Department of Education will indoctrinate the yutes about the eviles of fossil fuels.
It’s a huge mistake to build it in an area with unions, township tax, commuter tax, state income tax and hostile to industry other than being a government handout junkie. Build it in Texas.
WE DON’T NEED NO WHITE CRACKERS NAMED JOHHNY!.........
Believe me they’re getting tons of tax breaks to build this here — they had to outbid Ohio and WV.
This is good news for the area, and hopefully the start of an industrial revival.
If it was economical to ship all of the Marcellus gas to Texas for processing, they would. But it’s not, so they wanted to locate in the area.
“Pittsburgh-Area Site Is Chosen For Major Refinery”
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Wow, my ManCave Time Machine worked!
Its 1952 again.
If it is stopped, it will be the Feds who do it. Pennsylvania politicians are all on board. Even the Democrats, who are salivating over all of the new revenues they’ll have to spend.
This is literally the first taste of prosperity this region has had since Big Steel went down in the 70’s. Obama effs with it at his own risk. It’s one of the few things that could actually get people in Beaver County voting Republican.
woo hoo....this is just miles away from Aliquippa in Buh Buh Beaver County on the Ohio. They need all the help they can get in this area
A few years ago I looked up the donations from the attorneys to the parties. Only two States gave more to the Republicans than they gave to the Democrats: Alaska and Pennsylvania.
The first new refinery in thirty years will be in PA? Maybe there’s a connection here.
A few years ago I looked up the donations from the attorneys to the parties. Only two States gave more to the Republicans than they gave to the Democrats: Alaska and Pennsylvania.
The first new refinery in thirty years will be in PA? Maybe there’s a connection here.
I hear they’re changing the name of the football team from Pittsburgh Stillers to Pittsburgh Drillers.
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