I’m Hooked on an (Ethane) Feeling, High on (Cracker) Believing

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Hooked on a FeelingWill the northeast ever get an ethane cracker plant to handle the massive amount of ethane being produced in wet gas areas of western PA, eastern OH and the panhandle of WV? Some people think so (MDN among them), although each year that goes by without a cracker it seems less likely because of new ethane and NGL pipelines being built to haul ethane out of the northeast. Still, people "in the know" say they have a feeling. Kind of reminds us of the old BJ Thomas song, "Hooked on a Feeling." Yesterday at the Wheeling (WV) Economic Outlook Conference, Don Rigby, executive director of the Wheeling-based Regional Economic Development Partnership, was the latest "in the know" person to say he's hooked a cracker feeling...

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