Media is essential in pushing out campaign messaging. Many people across the country have no idea that the multi-state region is the country’s next sacrifice zone for gas industry expansion. By sharing news stories, videos, photos, and blogs on the coalition’s work we help to spread the message.
Videos
News
Recent Press Releases
Petrochemical News
- 10/11/19: The Guardian – Will a push for plastics turn Appalachia into next ‘Cancer Alley’?
- 8/22/19: Michigan Public Radio – Climate Cast – Chemical fingerprints point to fracking as culprit behind new methane emissions
- 8/21/19: Penn Live – Sixth man admits role in altering emission control devices on trucks used in Marcellus Shale gas fields
- 8/20/19: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Beaver County agency did poor job overseeing major pipeline projects, the state found, yanking its power
- 8/19/19: QUARTZ – Virgin plastic pellets are the biggest pollution disaster you’ve never heard of
- 8/17/19: NPR – Pa. Workers Forced To Choose Between Watching Trump, No Pay Or Using Paid Time Off
- 8/13/19: New York Times – At Chemical Plant Under Construction, Trump Builds List of Grievances
- 8/12/19: New York Times – A Giant Factory Rises to Make a Product Filling Up the World: Plastic — Royal Dutch Shell’s plant will produce more than a million tons of plastic [per year], in the form of tiny pellets. Many in the Pittsburgh area see it as an economic engine, but others worry about long-term harm. (See #5 ranked comment on the article by Mark Dixon of NoPetroPA here: https://nyti.ms/2McKeCr#permid=101960129)
- 8/8/18: Earthworks – Shell’s Falcon: A Pipeline and an Incomplete Plan
- 7/20/18: E&E News – Ethane is about to crack in Appalachia. Now it needs a market
- 7/1/18: DeSmog Blog – As Industry Pushes Billion-Dollar Fracked Petrochemical Projects, State Regulators Struggle To Keep Up
- 6/29/18: Today Online – China’s plastic recyclers go abroad as import ban bites
- 6/22/18: The Times – DEP finds ‘deficiencies’ in Shell Pipeline’s permit application
- 6/22/18: State Impact – Rachel Carson Trail near Pittsburgh has a new feature: A fracking well
- 6/18/18: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – China hits pause on Appalachian energy investment citing trade war concerns
- 6/18: Blue Ridge Outdoors – APPALACHIA’S $84 BILLION SECRET; China and the U.S. are planning a massive petrochemical hub in West Virginia
- 6/11/18: State Impact – Court rejects fracking company’s appeal in “rule of capture” decision
- 6/1/18: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Protesters want Pittsburgh’s mayor to take a stand against Beaver County cracker plant
- 5/2/18: Truthout – Don’t Underestimate the Anti-Pipeline Resistance
- 2/16/18: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Data to the people: Activists use explosion of information to bring oil and gas projects home to citizens
- 5/3/18: EcoWatch – The Link Between Fossil Fuels, Single-Use Plastics and Climate Change
- 2/16/18: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Building a pipeline, one landowner at a time
- 7/26/17: Pittsburgh Quarterly – What Will the Shell Cracker Bring Along With It? Friends and foes see it in different ways.
- 7/20/17: Business Insider – Why millennials are snubbing jobs in the oil industry
- 7/19/17: RoyalDutchShellPlc.com (not a Shell website) – Pipeline Opposition to Shell Chemicals’ $6 billion ethane cracker plant in USA
- 7/14/17: Allegheny Front – Shell’s Pennsylvania Chemical Plant Brings Hope for Jobs, Fear of Pollution
- 5/31/17: FracTracker – Piecing Together an Ethane Cracker; How fragmented approvals and infrastructure favor petrochemical development
- 5/3/17: FracTracker – Understanding in Order to Prepare: Ethane Cracker Risk and Disclosures
- 3/27/17: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Shell complex in Louisiana provides blueprint for Beaver County (Part 2)
- 3/26/17: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Life between two Shell plants (Part 1)
- 3/23/17: Allegheny Front – Is a petrochemical boom heading for Pennsylvania?
- 3/20/17: The State Journal – Shell plant construction shows massive project’s impending impact
- 2/20/17: Truthout – Chemical Plant Boom Spurred by Fracking Will Bring Smog, Plastic Glut, and Risks to Workers’ Health
- 2/3/17: Allegheny Front – The Debate Over Shell’s Water Permit Pollution is Heating Up
- 1/17/17: Press Release: Residents, Groups Call on Potter Township to Deny Shell Cracker Permit (Clean Air Council)Chemical fingerprints point to fracking as culprit behind new methane emissions
- 3/15/12: Allegheny Front – FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT ETHANE CRACKERS
Photos
FracTracker’s Appalachian Petro Buildout Photo Album
(Please see the FracTracker website for photo usage guidelines)
Mark Dixon’s petrochemical-related photo albums on Flickr (most photos are available to use via CC-BY license)
- Plastic nurdle photos
- Paddle Over Petro event during Shale Insight 2018 conference
- DEP Hearings about the Falcon Pipeline
- DEP Meeting about fracking at Edgar Thomson Mill near Braddock, PA
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Featured media interview photo credit: Mark Dixon/Blue Lens, LLC
FracTracker Petro Buildout sample display:
– Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance. Shell Ethane Cracker in Beaver County, PA. 3/12/19. Provided by FracTracker Alliance, fractracker.org/photos.
– Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance. Shell Ethane Cracker in Beaver County, PA. 3/12/19. Provided by FracTracker Alliance, fractracker.org/photos.
– [Outdoor Construction] Provided by FracTracker Alliance, fractracker.org/photos.
– Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance. 4/2/19. Provided by FracTracker Alliance, fractracker.org/photos. Aerial assistance provided by LightHawk.
– Ted Auch, FracTracker Alliance. 4/2/19. Provided by FracTracker Alliance, fractracker.org/photos. Aerial assistance provided by LightHawk.