Shell’s Plastics Plant Outside Pittsburgh Has Suddenly Become a Riskier Bet, a Study Concludes

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By James BruggersJun 3, 2020, 8:47 pm238 pts
The facility would turn ethane from fracking into more than a million tons of plastic pellets a year. By James Bruggers The same economic forces that are delaying construction of a plastics plant in Ohio will make another one under construction in western Pennsylvania less profitable and riskier to…

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