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Preparation for potential PTT Global Chemical cracker continues on both sides of Ohio River

By MIRANDA SEBROSKI

The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register

Vendors talk with attendees during an event where local community members learned more about the ethane cracker plant that has been proposed for Belmont County.
(Intelligencer photo by Miranda Sebroski)

WHEELING, W.Va. — Community leaders on both sides of the Ohio River want to ensure the local region is prepared if an ethane cracker plant proposed for Belmont County becomes a reality.

PTT Global Chemical America and its partner, Daelim Industrial Co., have acquired the necessary property and permits to build a petrochemical complex that could require an investment of up to $10 billion. One of the needed environmental permits has been challenged, and the companies are awaiting the results of the appeals process. There has been no official announcement yet regarding whether the plant will actually be built.

In hopes that an announcement to that effect will come soon, Belmont County Tourism Council, Wheeling Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Greater Moundsville Convention and Visitors Bureau hosted an event Thursday at Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack where community members could ask questions and learn more about the proposed plant and about other communities that have experienced similar development.

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