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Shell Cracker Compressor Problem Causes Shut Down, Billowing Smoke
The mighty Shell ethane cracker in Beaver County, PA, is now complete and gradually coming up to full operation–although it isn’t officially producing plastic pellets yet. The Shell cracker plant experienced a problem with a process compressor last Sunday that forced a shutdown and billowing smoke for about 20 minutes. In a statement posted to (of all places) Facebook, Shell said, “Operations are stable and we’re working to determine the cause of the interruption.”
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Anti-fossil fuelers at Penn State are trying their hardest to spin the results of a recent study by university researchers to say it shows a link between “elevated levels of chloride in groundwater” and fracking in Pennsylvania. As we read a summary of the study appearing on Penn State News, it was obvious the study proves just the opposite–that THERE IS NO LINK between the two!
Earlier this month EQT Corporation announced it is buying Tug Hill Operating’s West Virginia shale assets for $5.2 billion (see 
It appears that Sen. Joe Manchin’s “save MVP bill” (otherwise known as the permitting reform bill) is crashing and burning. No official language or text of the bill has been released. Yet. Why is that? Manchin extracted a promise from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that a bill to finish up Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and streamline permitting for future pipeline projects would be brought to a vote and passed–IF old Joe voted in favor of the horrible Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a bill (now law) that damages the fossil fuel industry. Joe got rolled. He voted to pass the IRA, and now more than one-third of House Democrats and at least one Senate Democrat (crazy Bernie Sanders) have pledged to vote against Manchin’s bill, leaving him high and dry with nothing to show for his sellout on IRA. So Manchin turned to Republicans to save his tattered reputation–and they aren’t having it. Republicans refuse to reward Manchin’s sellout. Manchin calls it “revenge politics.” We call it eating the excrement sandwich you prepared for yourself, Joe.
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