Posted on 08/13/2019 5:49:26 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) - Trying to hold support in the manufacturing towns that helped him win the White House in 2016, President Donald Trump is showcasing growing efforts to capitalize on western Pennsylvania's natural gas deposits by turning gas into plastics.
Trump will be in Monaca, about 40 minutes north of Pittsburgh, on Tuesday to tour Shell's soon-to-be completed Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex. The facility, which critics claim will become the largest air polluter in western Pennsylvania, is being built in an area hungry for investment.
The focus is part of a continued push by the Trump administration to increase the economy's dependence on fossil fuels in defiance of increasingly urgent warnings about climate change. And it's an embrace of plastic at a time when the world is sounding alarms over its ubiquity and impact.
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“One word.”
This is being set up on a huge scale in Houston to make use of all the excess natural gas as a result of Texas fracking.
To be fair, this started before Obama and was pushed hard by Pennsylvania under former Republican Governor Tom Corbett.
Western PA needed this type of plant as it has traditionally been industrial (steel) and has high unemployment.
It was welcomed by everyone except those who hate hyrdrocarbon energy.
Again tweaking the Left, which is on a jihad to get rid of plastic straws and bags.
One word?
OK.
WINNING!!!
Gas to plastics?
That’s what Texas and Louisana are for
“The focus is part of a continued push by the Trump administration to increase the economy’s dependence on fossil fuels in defiance of increasingly urgent warnings about climate change.”
FU Josh and Jill, and the horse your god the Fraud rode in on!
Fertilizer Plants Spring Up to Take Advantage of U.S.s Cheap Natural Gas
Growing demand for fertilizer presents increased safety and environmental concerns
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fertilizer-plants-grow-thanks-to-cheap-natural-gas/
Must be a tricky process....turning a gas into a solid. Just guessing, but you’d probably need a lot of gas.
Given the business environment under Obama, it was a no go until Trump.
Wells produce wet gases like butane, propane and ethane. The dry gas {natural gas) is what most know about. The ethane is what’s used to make plastic.
MAGA !
a. "Natural" gas, that comes spewing out of the ground
b. "Natural Gas", that is delivered to homes, etc.
I'm not a petro-chemical engineer, but I have a sneaking suspicion that a. and b. are not the same thing.
a. "Natural" gas, that comes spewing out of the ground
b. "Natural Gas", that is delivered to homes, etc.
I'm not a petro-chemical engineer, but I have a sneaking suspicion that a. and b. are not the same thing.
And W. VA...
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