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What are Nurdles? Plus Why the New Shell Cracker Really Matters

What are Nurdles? Plus Why the New Shell Cracker Really Matters

Published 3 years, 6 months ago
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Shell is opening an Ethane Cracker in Beaver County, but we still have some questions. Like why here, in Western Pennsylvania of all places? How it will impact jobs and our rivers? And what does an ethane cracker even… do? The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier is with us to explain why the plant picked us, and what it means for both the economy and wellbeing of our region.

Check out the great reporting from he and his colleagues here.

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