Shell Paying $69M to Move Water Plant for Cracker Project

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positive signShell is currently spending an undisclosed amount of money (millions of dollars) to build a bridge to a site they now own where they may one day build a $2-$3 billion ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (see Shell Begins Building Bridge to PA Cracker Plant Site). Shell is also reportedly spending $80 million to clean up the site (see Shell Paying $80M to Clean Up PA Site for Ethane Cracker Plant). In yet one more positive sign that the project will happen, Shell is spending $69 million to move a water intake site and build a new water treatment site for Center Township--because the current water intake is on the site Shell owns--and Shell needs extra capacity for water treatment. You don't spend hundreds of millions of dollars to walk away from a project, in our humble opinion...

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