Public can comment on 60-mile pipeline for Shell cracker plant in Beaver
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is inviting public comments on a proposed water obstruction and encroachment permits for a nearly 60-mile ethane pipeline by the Shell Pipeline Co.
Royal Dutch Shell is building the $6 billion facility on the Ohio River in Beaver with a view toward using ethane from the Marcellus shale play and processing it into ethylene and, finally, polyethylene for the plastics industry.
The 12-inch pipeline would connect the Shell ethane plant in Beaver County with facilities in other parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to the DEP.
The pipeline would stretch through Allegheny (11.6 miles), Beaver (30 miles) and Washington (18) counties, according to the DEP.
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