by Eric de Place | Jun 1, 2022 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Research
Sometime soon, Shell’s petrochemical plant in western Pennsylvania will finally begin operations, churning out millions of pounds of tiny resin pellets for plastic manufacturing. Despite a barrage of hype about a large-scale petrochemical buildout in Appalachia that...
by Eric de Place | Apr 15, 2022 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The plastics industry is facing a triple threat. Product bans, public opinion, and corporate pledges all conspire to curtail future profits and undercut expansion plans. This trio helps explain why the ballyhooed petrochemical buildout in Appalachia has never...
by Eric de Place | Apr 4, 2022 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Last week, Ohio lieutenant governor John Husted spoke the unvarnished truth about the Ohio Valley’s long planned petrochemicals buildout. Responding to news about the perennially delayed project in Belmont County, he said, “The industry itself is not growing....
by Eric de Place and Molly Kiick | Nov 30, 2021 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports
Download report Download summary Download digital toolkit Beaver County, Pennsylvania is a real-time case-study in the local economic impacts of petrochemical development. It is home to the construction site of a Shell petrochemical facility estimated to cost...
by Ben Hunkler | Nov 23, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Four years ago, petrochemical industry boosters predicted a new wave of industry would roll across the natural gas-producing region of Appalachia, spurring billions of dollars in capital investments and a veritable economic renaissance in a place that sorely needed...
by Kathy Hipple and Anne Keller | Nov 10, 2021 | Petrochemicals & Plastics, Reports
Download report Download summary Download digital toolkit The Appalachian petrochemical buildout is on shaky ground. Despite speculation that supply chain constraints, COVID-induced shortages of key products, and volatile energy prices could “re-shore” virgin...
by Sean O'Leary | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
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 Ben Hunkler | Aug 27, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics
More than one hundred environmental and community advocates described the devastating threats to public health and safety posed by petrochemical development in Appalachia and the Gulf South during a public hearing organized by the Department of Energy’s Office of...
by Ben Hunkler | Aug 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
Senior Researcher Sean O’Leary explained the damaging effects of shale gas activity and prospective petrochemical development on the environment, residents’ wellbeing, and local economic growth in a public-facing presentation for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office...
by Sean O'Leary | Jun 24, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
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...
