by Eric de Place | Jun 14, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
To see the future of the Ohio River you can look to a place that is almost its antipode: the tropical coastal waters of Sri Lanka. It’s there, some 9,000 miles away as the crow flies, that residents have recently discovered the scourge of pollution from the tiny resin...
by Eric de Place | Mar 23, 2021 | Blog Posts, Natural Gas, Petrochemicals & Plastics, Research
JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania, March 23, 2021 – New gas field developments in Appalachia are unlikely to be profitable as the US energy system undergoes rapid decarbonization, according to a new report from the Stockholm Environment Institute’s US Center (SEI) and the...
by Ben Hunkler | Mar 4, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
On February 3rd, 2021, the Ohio River Valley Institute convened a forum of experts from finance, policymaking, and the petrochemical industry to assess the future prospects for the creation of a petrochemical hub in the greater Ohio Valley. View a recording of the...
by Sean O'Leary | Feb 18, 2021 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The Ohio River Valley Institute issued the following press release earlier today. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Newest delay for Belmont County cracker reinforces need for new economic development strategies JOHNSTOWN, Pennsylvania, February 18, 2021 – Today’s statement in...
by Eric de Place | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The Ohio Valley petrochemical buildout is in big trouble. You know it when you hear things like this: “The Zeitgeist has shifted, and this is a permanent shift.” Those are not the words of an anti-fracking activist or an ocean conversation group. That’s the...
by Sean O'Leary | Sep 16, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
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 | Aug 11, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
How the greater Ohio Valley can awaken from its natural gas and petrochemical fever dream to an economic future that actually delivers jobs and prosperity “Game-changer” – It’s amazing the word doesn’t stick in their throats. For a decade, policymakers in Ohio,...
by Eric de Place | Aug 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
“Creating a lot of new feedstock and products for the kind of products we’re going to need in that bright, environmentally-healthy future.” That’s how Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf described the Beaver County cracker project this July while defending his support for...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
The following public letter concerning economic development, the petrochemical industry, and the need for more viable and sustainable strategies was sent to the governors of Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania on June 15, 2020. See this background brief to learn...
by Sean O'Leary | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog Posts, Petrochemicals & Plastics
On June 15, 2020 a group of seven prominent economists and policy analysts from leading universities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and a former Pennsylvania Secretary of Environmental Protection, wrote a public letter to the governors of the three states...
