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Shorthawk t1_jcr5vo6 wrote

Reply to comment by Aethenil in Shell Cracker Plant by da_london_09

And they're still apparently trying to get through the process of funding one closer to where I live. Wonder if how things have gone for this plant will affect any. (I used to live in the PGH area in my teens. Currently live like 2 hours south along the Ohio River)

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01Arjuna t1_jcrxq3a wrote

There was talk about putting one in across from Moundsville, WV (Dilles Bottom, OH) where the old power plant used to be. It seems like it has been forever delayed.

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Ordinary_Pain1848 t1_jcyu4ky wrote

Yeah, I’d say i don’t think we will ever see that plant come to fruition. They did all the ground work to prep for it. When PTTGCA’s investment partner Daelim Chemical USA of South Korea withdrew everything kind of went cold. Nothing new has really been reported on in the last year or so.

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01Arjuna t1_jczob6b wrote

It's a shame they did all that work to tear out the power plant and then it doesn't get used for anything.

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Ordinary_Pain1848 t1_jczvxwl wrote

Yeah, always sucks to see a cool old power station bite the dust. Sure would’ve been a cool museum but i imagine it would’ve been hard to really convert into any sort of museum.

It was an older, smaller coal fired power plant, only producing 568MW. The plant was decommissioned in 2011, demolition began in 2015 and was completed in 2016.

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