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A cnn global economic analyst and global business columnist and associate editor for the "financial times." good to see you. you got quite the title. all right. well, for thanksgiving everybody wants a big mouthful from the great spread on the table but its going to cost a whole lot more. whats to blame? is it the shipping problem? whats happening? >> well, if you think wabout it what goes into making a turkey that ends up on your table for thanksgiving? those turkeys need feed. there is fuel to...

Earlier this week, Shell announced its mighty ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, PA (near Pittsburgh) is finally, ten years after first announcing, fully operational and producing plastic pellets (see Shell Officially Launches Pa. Cracker Plant Using M-U Ethane). Part of the raison d'etre for granting the plant a $1.7 billion break on taxes for

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett officially launched his public relations effort yesterday to get the PA legislature to pass a package of tax credits for Shell to build an ethane cracker plant in the state. The package of tax credits will amount to $1.7 billion over a 25-year period (up to $66 million per year) and

Stop Press: Shell Chemical has selected a location in Beaver County, Pennsylvania to potentially build an ethane cracker plant. Shell announced yesterday afternoon that the company has signed a land option agreement with Horsehead Corporation to “evaluate a site” near Monaca, PA, which is about 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, along the Ohio River (see

It's been a looooong time coming. We've waited for this day for more than ten years. In March 2012, MDN told you that Shell had announced selecting a site in Pennsylvania as the future location for an ethane cracker plant (see Shell Announces Location of Ethane Cracker Plant). Ethane crackers use ethane (doh!) as their

Anti-fossil fuelers continue to pressure the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (and Pennsylvania itself) over the grievous sin of approving the Shell ethane cracker plant project (see Shell Receives Air Quality Permit from PA DEP for Cracker Plant). With the cracker plant now in startup mode, antis want to know, "Who monitors Shell’s cracker plant

Finally, after months and months of waiting, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) has granted an air quality permit that allows Shell to operate a proposed ethane cracker plant in Monaca (Beaver County), PA. MDN told you the DEP signaled they would approve the air quality permit back in March (see PA DEP Signals

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the USDA is investing $73 million in 21 projects through the first round of the Meat and Poultry Processing Expansion Program. Vilsack says the funds distributed under the program are intended to help increase production capacity across the supply chain.

Said yesterday, we need the cheap labor in the fields, or as, you know -- pete: picking crops. rachel: -- joe biden said were tacos. its really about class. they are covering up policies that benefit the elite -- pete: the marxist critical theory was with always premised on class. they twist it into race because they thought our background was more conducive to that kind of fracture fracturing -- rachel: but its not just corporations that they need people, as she says, cheap labor in the fields ...

Some 225 hypocritical nutters were whipped into a frenzy by Big Green and its so-called Beyond Plastics campaign during a Zoom call Tuesday night to "prepare" for the startup of Shell's mighty ethane cracker plant in Monaca, PA. It was really quite hilarious. There was talk of nurdle patrols, "sacrifice zones," and celebrations over defeating