Shell’s Falcon Ethane Pipe Investigated for Possible Corrosion

In February 2020, Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Pat McDonnell sent a letter to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). McDonnell's letter alleges Shell's 97-mile, two-legged Falcon pipeline system that will carry ethane to the mighty Shell cracker plant now under construction in Beaver County, PA, "may have been con­structed with de­fec­tive cor­ro­sion coat­ing pro­tec­tion." It's an explosive charge just coming to light now, more than a year later.

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