By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register PITTSBURGH, Pa — Seven reactors will heat ethane to 1,600 degrees at Royal Dutch Shell’s future $6 billion Pennsylvania petrochemical complex, while officials said the plant will lead to plastics manufacturing within the next three years. As the Beaver County ethane cracker[Read More…]
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Appalachia panel at shale expo
By CONOR GRIFFITH The State Journal PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A panel comprised of representatives from a variety of backgrounds shared their views regarding the potential of Appalachia’s natural gas reserves during the Shale Insight conference Thursday. Steve Hedrick, president and CEO of South Charleston-based Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research & Innovation Center, said a[Read More…]
Energy independence key to national security, America’s future, new DOE Deputy Secretary says
By LINDA HARRIS The State Journal PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Building energy independence will create jobs and secure America’s future, Deputy U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette says. Brouillette, speaking at the Shale Insight 2017 conference in Pittsburgh, said the administration intends to create an energy-dominant America that doesn’t rely on[Read More…]
West Virginia’s regulatory environment markedly different than neighboring Pennsylvania
By LINDA HARRIS The State Journal PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Industry leaders were told this week West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio couldn’t be more different when it comes to the regulatory environment governing oil and gas operations. Babst Calland’s Blaine Lucas told attendees at Shale Insight 2017 in Pittsburgh this week that[Read More…]
Minden PCB report shows samples 10 times the actionable standard set by EPA
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Samples taken along Arbuckle Creek in Minden show elevated levels of PCB contamination, a report by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows. Minden is home to what was once the Shaffer Equipment Company, which EPA agents declared a Superfund site in[Read More…]
As many questions as answers at legislative conference
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal HAGERSTOWN, Md. — “Please, arrest my daughter — I want to get her clean.” The plea came from a police officer to fellow officers making up a drug task force when he had run out of options to solve his daughter’s heroin addiction, according to[Read More…]
Hino expansion could be boon for Wood County schools
By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A new Hino manufacturing plant planned for Parkersburg could give Wood County Schools a significant boost in funding. In a press conference Wednesday, Hino Motors Manufacturing U.S.A. officials announced setting up a truck assembly plant at the old Coldwater[Read More…]
Corridor H progresses with groundbreaking ceremony
By BETH HENRY-VANCE The Inter-Mountain KERENS, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice joined close to 200 people in a Corridor H groundbreaking celebration Thursday near Kerens, using the opportunity to promote passage of the upcoming road bond referendum. Justice said approving the Roads to Prosperity proposal during the statewide election Oct.[Read More…]
Wood County gets high-intensity drug trafficking designation
The Herald-Dispatch WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wood County, West Virginia, has been designated as a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., announced Thursday. On May 9, Manchin and McKinley sent a letter to National Drug Control Policy Acting Director Richard Baum encouraging the designation.[Read More…]
Moundsville meets Maine as filming wraps at former West Virginia penitentiary
By ALAN OLSON The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — Prisoners populated the former West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville once again this month for filming of the upcoming Hulu original series “Castle Rock,” based on the works of Stephen King. Details on the series were not immediately available, but[Read More…]