Potter Twp Declines to Approve Permits for Shell Cracker, For Now

The Potter Township Board of Supervisors convened a public hearing on Tuesday afternoon at 3 pm that ended up going until 1 am Wednesday. The intent was to approve Shell's request for permits to begin construction on the multi-billion dollar ethane cracker plant. That didn't happen. Instead, the supervisors decided to hold another hearing Wednesday night. They did, and that hearing went for over an hour, in closed-door session. At the conclusion, the supervisors made a couple of requests from Shell, which Shell agreed to. However, the supervisors are still not ready to approve the permits and instead asked for more paperwork to be filed--by both Shell and the radical, anti-fossil fuel Big Green group Clean Air Council (from Philadelphia). It seems the antis are attempting to stop this project cold--which should have the good citizens of Beaver County (indeed the entire northeast) outraged. At any rate, we're sure the permits will be forthcoming--but now it won't happen until sometime in January...

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