Shell ‘Exploring’ Sale of $14B PA Facility

The state that canceled your bus is wasting $1.6B on a polluting boondoggle

Pa. officials promised a Shell plastics plant was the future, awarding a $1.6B tax break to an economic dud and pollution nightmare.

Pennsylvania Gave Shell a $1.65 Billion Tax 'Windfall' to Come to the State. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant - Bucks County Beacon

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. In 2020, the Department of Energy predicted that Appalachia was “on the cusp of an energy and petrochemical renaissance” fueled by abundant shale gas. The agency saw the ethane cracker plant Shell was building outside Pittsburgh as “the first of what could be mult…

Shell ‘exploring’ sale of $14B PA facility

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. It is republished with permission. Sign up for their newsletter here. In 2020, the Department of Energy predicted that Appalachia was “on the cusp of an energy and petrochemical renaissance” fueled by abundant shale gas. The agency saw the ethane cracker plant Shell was building outside Pittsburgh …

Pennsylvania lured Shell with a $1.65 billion tax break. Now the company wants to sell its plant

An image of the Shell plastics plant in Pennsylvania on April 26. Shell said April 25 that it would start using its “elevated flare this afternoon” and expected the work to continue through the weekend. (Courtesy of Hilary Starcher-O’Toole) This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment.  In 2020, the Department of Energy predicted that Appalach…

Pennsylvania lured Shell to the state with a $1.65 billion tax break. Now the company wants to sell Its plant

In 2020, the Department of Energy predicted that Appalachia was “on the cusp of an energy and petrochemical renaissance” fueled by abundant...

Pennsylvania Lured Shell to the State With a $1.65 Billion Tax Break. Now the Company Wants to Sell Its Plant - Inside Climate News

Looking back, “this was a terrible investment of taxpayer money,” one analyst said.