Not doing too bad with a second-quarter GDP of 4.1%
A new polyethylene (PE) manufacturing facility, with its own "small" ethane cracker is set to open in West Virginia, Appalachian Resins Inc., which will own and operate the plant.
US Methanol broke ground yesterday in Institute (Kanawha County), WV for its very first methanol production plant. In August 2016 MDN was the first to share the news that US Methanol is building at least two, rumored up to five, methanol plants in the Mountain State
Jul 11, 2017 - Growing natural gas production in the region is a major draw for chemical companies, which use fossil fuel byproducts to make plastics. A second petrochemical hub in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia would compete with facilities on the U.S. Gulf coast and create thousands of jobs.
Nov 8, 2017 - BEIJING (Reuters) - China Energy Investment Corp, the world's largest power company by asset value, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to invest $83.7 billion in shale gas, power and chemical projects in West Virginia,
Nov 10, 2017 - The hub would also include a new pipeline connecting Charleston-area petrochemical plants to the hub pipelines near Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The storage hub is one of the projects that developers are working on under the memorandum of understanding with China Energy,
With four of the world's largest chemical firms and other chemical manufacturers in the Chemical Alliance Zone (CAZ), West Virginia is home to one of the highest concentration of chemical manufacturers in the world. The state's chemical industry employed more than 10000 workers in 2006, ranking second nationally .
Hmmm ... Point Pleasant?
I hope Mothman is OK with the project.
OBTW, Your list is just the beginning. Proctor and Gamble is building a factory in Berkeley County. There are others, as well.
It then is logical o assume that the senate candidate that best meets the needs of the chemical companies and of the coal get the money and support.
I suspect that Manchin served them well during the Obama years, but a solid Republican trump person will be perceived as serving them better.
Even with the ever so obvious lies, i think Manchin will go down