{"id":45453,"date":"2019-04-17T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45453"},"modified":"2019-04-17T11:12:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:12:28","slug":"virtually-no-risk-of-drilling-restrictions-west-virginia-official-tells-fracking-reliant-petrochemical-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=45453","title":{"rendered":"‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shale gas extraction and petrochemical industry development near the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should petrochemical companies build in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio? For one thing, don\u2019t expect regulation of shale gas drilling, Michael Graney, executive director of the West Virginia Development Office, predicted in his presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cContrasted to other U.S. regions, Tri-State region is industry-supportive and industry-friendly,\u201d read a slide that Graney, who was appointed<\/a> by West Virginia Governor Jim Justice in September 2018, presented to the conference. \u201cVirtually no risk of drilling restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graney also elicited \u201challelujahs\u201d from the crowd after describing West Virginia’s low worker turnover rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have earned an A from the Cato Institute in fiscal policies,\u201d he told representatives from fossil fuel and petrochemical companies, referring to a libertarian think tank<\/a> that Sourcewatch describes<\/a> as \u201cfounded by Charles G. Koch and funded by the Koch brothers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shell is already building a massive plastic manufacturing plant reliant on fracked-gas feedstocks known as an \u201cethane cracker,\u201d in Pennsylvania. Credit: Sharon Kelly, DeSmog<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the ninth annual West Virginia Manufacturers Association’s Marcellus and Manufacturing Development Conference, officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) offered the petrochemical industry the services of the federal government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd what we’re going to do is everything within the government’s power to shine a bright light on this and help get this over the finish line,\u201d Steven Winberg, the Department of Energy\u2019s Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, told the conference. \u201cWith regard to DOE, there’s a couple of things that we can do. One is, private sector investors can take advantage of the DOE’s loan guarantee program.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shale gas extraction and petrochemical industry development near the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale. Why should […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[5317,25643,331,412,1729,11167],"class_list":["post-45453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-desmog-blog","tag-drilling-restrictions","tag-fracking","tag-hydraulic-fracturing","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-sharon-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45453","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=45453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45455,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45453\/revisions\/45455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}