by Sean O'Leary | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia should try it instead of throwing up barriers In 2009, Texas was the nation’s biggest consumer of coal for the generation of electricity. By 2019 Texas had cut its consumption of coal by a third and replaced it with . . . If you...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 23, 2020 | Blog Posts, Research, Shared Prosperity
Earlier this year, the Belomar Regional Council, an economic planning and development council comprised of governments in Belmont County Ohio, and Ohio, Marshall, and Wetzel Counties in West Virginia, submitted an updated Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy to...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
How Saudi Arabia may cripple the US fracking boom and the Appalachian petrochemical buildout along with it It’s hard to conceive of a worse scenario for the nascent Appalachian petrochemical industry than a world in which the price of oil is chronically low,...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
The fate of Appalachia’s natural gas and petrochemical boom depends on despotic regimes, foreign companies we’ve never heard of, and OPEC In a recent speech to an oil and gas conference, CNX Resources CEO Nick DeIuliis joined many in his industry, wrapping themselves...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Research, Shared Prosperity
Why the economic impacts of an Appalachian petrochemical buildout won’t meet expectations A 2017 economic impact study from the American Chemistry Council paints a glowing picture of jobs growth and economic development accompanying a buildout of petrochemical...
