by Sean O'Leary | Oct 7, 2021 | Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click here to view and download the report With a price tag of $100 billion/year, widespread adoption of CCUS in our electric system would spark outrage if its cost showed up in our monthly bills. But members of Congress, including some climate hawks, are coalescing...
by Sean O'Leary | Oct 7, 2021 | Blog Posts
With a price tag of $100 billion/year, widespread adoption of CCUS in the electric system would spark outrage if its cost showed up in our monthly electric bills. But members of Congress, including some climate hawks, seem to be coalescing around legislation that...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy
According to a recent report from S&P Global/Platts, “PTTGC America’s final investment decision on a new petrochemical complex in southeast Ohio remains on indefinite hold until the company secures a new partner in the project, the company said in an email...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 5, 2021 | Blog Posts
The West Virginia Public Service Commission’s ruling on the case regarding the Mitchell power plant will, if it is implemented, result in fewer jobs and less prosperity for Marshall County and surrounding counties, it will needlessly raise West Virginians’...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Clean Energy, Reports, Shared Prosperity
Click to view and download If there are some industries in which immense amounts of investment and economic growth can fail to produce significant increases in jobs and prosperity, might there be other kinds of industries and activities in which much...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 20, 2021 | Reports
Click to view and download Between 2008 and 2019, the twenty-two counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia that produce 90% of Appalachian natural gas badly trailed the nation in key measures of economic prosperity, including growth in jobs, personal...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity, Strategic Communications
Don’t look now, but it’s late-June – season of the summer solstice and the now annual announcement by PTTGC that, despite previous assurances, it must yet again delay a final investment decision on the proposed ethane cracker in Belmont County, Ohio. Recall that in...
by Sean O'Leary | May 26, 2021 | Blog Posts
There was a time when the sight of rows of office workers hammering away at their Friden adding machines would have sent me into paroxysms of delight because I, the Victor Comptometer salesman, had a new and better “programmable calculator” that could kick the...
by Sean O'Leary | May 18, 2021 | Blog Posts
At ORVI, we’ve documented the inability of the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries to serve as engines for job growth and prosperity in Appalachia. Although these findings may be greeted with doubt, disbelief, and sometimes anger, we find that, once the numbers...
by Sean O'Leary | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog Posts, Clean Energy, Shared Prosperity
In 10 years, unless West Virginia leapfrogs from its coal-dominated energy system to one driven by clean renewable resources, it will cease to be an energy state West Virginia’s status as an energy state — one that produces more energy than it consumes – will almost...
