WV Officials Say Odebrecht Considering Reconfigured Cracker Plant
As MDN told you a month ago, Brazilian company Odebrecht is signaling they may not build an ethane cracker plant near Parkersburg, WV after all (see Odebrect Pushes the Pause Button on WV Ethane Cracker). Which is a big disappointment, since the project seemed to have so much forward momentum. However, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's representatives are still not defeated--far from it. They don't see Odebrecht's statement that the plant "needs to be re-evaluated" (Odebrecht's words, not ours) as a definite "no" so they're continuing to hold out hope that it will get built, but perhaps modified from its original plan...
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