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Shell’s 97-mile Falcon ethane pipeline, which feeds 100,000 barrels a day of Marcellus/Utica ethane to the mighty cracker plant in Beaver County, PA, was built and running as of January 2021, well before the cracker itself was finished (see Shell Cracker Construction “in the Home Stretch” – Ready in 2022). Ironically, more of this ethane pipeline was built in Ohio and West Virginia than in Pennsylvania. Only 45.5 miles of the system is located in PA. Yet in April, the Pennsylvania Attorney General, Michelle Henry (an anti-drilling Democrat hack about to leave office) used the testimony of two fired Shell employees to charge the long-done pipeline with crimes for how it was constructed (see PA AG Files Bogus Charges Against Long-Done Shell Falcon Pipe). Shell stupidly agreed to plead guilty to three of 13 criminal charges for violating the state Clean Streams law when building the pipeline in Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington counties.
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