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Trump to promote turning natural gas into plastics in Pa.
AP via WPXI ^ | August 13, 2019 | JILL COLVIN and JOSH BOAK

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: dissociatedpress; manufacturing; naturalgas; pennsylvania; tds; trump; trumprally
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Up until around 2005, there was real concern that the USA had to import the material for plastic production. But once fracking cause a major uptick in natural gas production, that literally changed by 2017.
21 posted on 08/13/2019 6:45:05 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: RayChuang88

This is going to revitalize the domestic injection molding and other plastics industries, much of which was centered around the Cleveland to Pittsburgh area.


22 posted on 08/13/2019 7:01:00 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is now a hate-group)
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To: akalinin

Years ago I saw a trade show demo from US Steel where they were stamping out plastic combs with the USS logo.

The narration told us that the chemicals used to make the plastics had been reclaimed by scrubbers on the smokestacks of their steel plants.

I’d much rather comb my hair with that stuff than breathe it.


23 posted on 08/13/2019 7:12:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Red Badger

Didn’t seem to concern them that Roundup was killing people with cancer.


24 posted on 08/13/2019 7:13:58 AM PDT by GailA (Intractable Pain, a Subset of Chronic pain Last a Life TIME at Level 10.)
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To: Scooter100

You’re correct. The gas that comes out of wells is processed through a stripper to remove most of the high value gases. People heat their homes with what’s left, methane, unless they happen to live in on land with a well with free gas rights or close to wells.


25 posted on 08/13/2019 7:45:05 AM PDT by meatloaf
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To: Scooter100
a. "Natural" gas, that comes spewing out of the ground
b. "Natural Gas", that is delivered to homes, etc.

Not a petro-chemical engineer either but around here (North Central WV) homes with (a.)"Natural" gas wells on their property often get free gas piped from the well to the abode. (This is a rural area where there are no municipal gas mains) Depends on who owns the COG rights and what kind of deal is worked with the energy company.

26 posted on 08/13/2019 7:50:20 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

the Shell cracker plant is the biggest boon to Western PA in decades. It has been absolutely amazing to watch them transform the area over recent years for this plant. Everyone around there has Marcellus gas leases just waiting for this plant to open so they can start collecting royalties for all the drilled and capped wells. The site covers the old J&L mill, a nickel plant and other former industrial sites. Property values are up, the local community colleges and universities are offering many skilled trade programs to fulfill jobs at the plant. Its all the talk of the town. Never heard any idiots complain about pollution which will be virtually non-existent anyways compared to the former industries that occupied the site. They literally covered hundreds of acres with 8 foot of soil and spent 3 years working on that and underground, moving mountains, roads and railroads before the first foot of above ground structure was ever erected. Sadly there will only be about 800 jobs when the plant starts operating, much less than the thousands working to build the plant, but still a net good for the economy and community around there.


27 posted on 08/13/2019 7:57:41 AM PDT by pghbjugop
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

the Shell cracker plant is the biggest boon to Western PA in decades. It has been absolutely amazing to watch them transform the area over recent years for this plant. Everyone around there has Marcellus gas leases just waiting for this plant to open so they can start collecting royalties for all the drilled and capped wells. The site covers the old J&L mill, a nickel plant and other former industrial sites. Property values are up, the local community colleges and universities are offering many skilled trade programs to fulfill jobs at the plant. Its all the talk of the town. Never heard any idiots complain about pollution which will be virtually non-existent anyways compared to the former industries that occupied the site. They literally covered hundreds of acres with 8 foot of soil and spent 3 years working on that and underground, moving mountains, roads and railroads before the first foot of above ground structure was ever erected. Sadly there will only be about 800 jobs when the plant starts operating, much less than the thousands working to build the plant, but still a net good for the economy and community around there.


28 posted on 08/13/2019 7:57:54 AM PDT by pghbjugop
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To: GailA
Didn’t seem to concern them that Roundup was killing people with cancer.
My understanding is that there is no scientific data that proves that - the jury just voted their emotions.
IIRC, the same is also true of P&G's talcum powder case and (back in the 80s) a company's breast implants case. No data to support the claims, just over emotional jurors.
29 posted on 08/13/2019 8:12:28 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: moovova

A great future...
57 sec vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk


30 posted on 08/13/2019 8:21:37 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: GailA

Roundup is not fertilizer.


31 posted on 08/13/2019 8:29:37 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going no than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Absolutely classic.


32 posted on 08/13/2019 9:01:05 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Scooter100
a. "Natural" gas, that comes spewing out of the ground

There are some types of natural gas that are defined as 'wet' gas that have more components than just the gas used for burning in your home.

This 'wet gas' is more valuable because there are more uses for it in our industries {which is the reason for this plant}.

PA, OH, WV and NY {but they don't use their gas} have been blessed with our natural gas supply. The region is working and people are happy.

33 posted on 08/13/2019 11:57:16 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist mooselimb savages, today.)
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To: USS Alaska

Interesting, thank you!


34 posted on 08/13/2019 5:25:54 PM PDT by Scooter100
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