Shell Ethane Pipe Construction in SWPA Allowed to Restart

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Here's a rum'un (Brit speak meaning "strange" or "odd") if ever we've heard of one. Shell shut down construction activity a week ago at its mighty ethane cracker plant site in Beaver County, PA, sending nearly 8,000 people home (see Shell Shuts Down SWPA Cracker Plant Construction re COVID-19). There are still several hundred people on location to secure things and ensure no mischief is made while the other workers are away. However, work on Shell's Falcon pipeline project, the pipeline that will feed ethane to the (now quarantined) plant, is allowed to continue as "life-sustaining" work under PA Gov. Tom Wolf's order closing some businesses but keeping others open.

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