And The Winner Is .... Pittsburgh!

Remember that story about Shell looking for the right site to put a $2 billion ethane cracker unit? Shell was looking at sites in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

Two of the three states are miffed.

Royal Dutch Shell PLC selected Pennsylvania over Ohio and West Virginia as the site for a $2 billion petrochemical plant expected to generate thousands of permanent jobs and draw from the region's massive deposits of natural gas, ...

Shell said it signed a land-option agreement to evaluate a site in Beaver County about 35 miles north of Pittsburgh for the plant, which will use natural gas as a primary feedstock. The company said it wanted an area close to natural-gas production that also provided water, road and rail transportation.
 
The plant, known as an ethane cracker, will be located in a faded industrial area once busy with steel mills along the Ohio River. The plant is expected to create 10,000 construction jobs, according to a Shell estimate. A study by the American Chemistry Council said the plant would create 10,000 permanent jobs in chemical and supplier industries. Unemployment in Beaver County was 6.8%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Something tells me another 10,000 construction workers won't be voting to ban fracking in Pennsylvania. 

This story was first published back in July, 2012; I missed, but a reader alerted me to it.