{"id":30334,"date":"2018-01-30T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30334"},"modified":"2018-01-30T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:30:13","slug":"study-fills-in-missing-data-on-homes-schools-habitats-at-risk-from-shells-falcon-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30334","title":{"rendered":"Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell\u2019s Falcon Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"page-title\" class=\"page__title title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2018\/01\/29\/shell-petrochemical-falcon-pipeline-plan-fractracker-assessment\">Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell\u2019s Falcon Pipeline<\/a><\/h3>\n<article class=\"node-12577 node node-blog node-promoted view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-bimage field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/sites\/beta.desmogblog.com\/files\/styles\/full_width_blog_image\/public\/blogimages\/Future%20Ethane%20Craker%20site%202.jpg?itok=coY8wU0S\" alt=\"Aerial view of the future site of the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania\" width=\"826\" height=\"520\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-social-bar clearfix\">\n<div class=\"new-horizontal-share-wrapper new-horizontal-email-wrapper clearfix last\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the state\u00a0and the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensitive environmental areas in the path of\u00a0its proposed Falcon ethane pipeline. Now, a concerned\u00a0nonprofit has\u00a0pieced together the details Shell should have included (and more), revealing hundreds of homes, schools, streams, and wetlands in the path of the fracking products\u00a0pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>The 97-mile Falcon Ethane project will carry more than 107,000 barrels a day of a flammable\u00a0plastics precursor to a small town in Pennsylvania where Shell is building an ethane \u201ccracker\u201d facility. In a region poised to be transformed by petrochemical development, this huge plastics plant will superheat the ethane and \u201ccrack\u201d it as it manufactures over a million tons per year of tiny plastic beads of ethylene or\u00a0polyethylene.<\/p>\n<p>Shell&#8217;s pipeline plan lacked maps that would show area creeks, rivers,\u00a0waterways, and other sensitive areas like wildlife sanctuaries and preserved lands, the state Department of Environmental Protection said after it issued \u201cincompleteness letters\u201d to the plant in October, a local newspaper, The Times Online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.com\/news\/20171120\/shell-pipeline-submits-incomplete-permit-application-to-dep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Areas at Risk From Falcon\u00a0Pipeline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now, in a rare detailed look at this early stage of pipeline planning, the FracTracker Alliance, a nonprofit focused on \u201cthe risks of oil and gas development,\u201d\u00a0has published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fractracker.org\/projects\/falcon-public-eia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Falcon Public Environmental Impact Assessment Project<\/a>, detailing the impacts and\u00a0risks the Falcon pipeline\u00a0will bring to Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and\u00a0Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shell\u2019s Falcon Pipeline At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the state\u00a0and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensitive environmental areas in the path of\u00a0its proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5317,18224,18223,619,11167,2100,2996],"class_list":["post-30334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-falcon-ethane-project","tag-falcon-pipeline","tag-pennsylvania","tag-sharon-kelly","tag-shell","tag-us-army-corps-of-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30335,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30334\/revisions\/30335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}