>> ... such a project would signal a huge shift in North Dakota, where 28 percent of natural gas was burned off in August. Along with two proposed fertilizer plants, it would mark the beginnings of a chemical industry in the state.
Praise the LORD! This is good news indeed. It has long bothered me that all that gas was going to waste.
I like the idea of exporting a product, even if a precursor, instead of just raw materials. It is value added to ‘created’ wealth, always an economic plus.
Yes, I live up there part of the time, and every day and night you can see a valuable commodity being wasted and money burning in flares across the bald prairie of the Bakken.
Canada doesn’t waste this valuable resource. They use and sell all of it. It’s high time we do the same.