The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is inviting public comments on a proposed water obstruction and encroachment permits for a nearly 60 mile ethane pipeline by the Shell Pipeline Company. Royal Dutch Shell is building the $6 billion facility on the Ohio River in Beaver with a view toward using ethane from the Marcellus shale play and processing it into ethylene and, finally, polyethylene for the plastics industry.
The 12-inch pipeline would connect the Shell ethane plant in Beaver County with facilities in other parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio, according to DEP.
The pipeline would stretch through Allegheny (11.6 miles), Beaver (30 miles) and Washington (18) counties, according to the DEP.
Public comments on Shell’s applications for the construction of the pipeline are due by February 20.
Shell Appalachia Business Integration Lead Michael Marr said Shell selected the Beaver County site to be close to the feedstock source — Marcellus shale natural gas — and to be close to potential customers. The plant is estimated to be within 700 miles of 70 percent of North American polyethylene customers, he said.
Shell engineer Todd Whittemore said the pressurized ethane will be brought to the plant via the pipeline.
Shell is under contract with 10 natural gas companies to ensure a long-term supply, Marr said.
Right-of-way acquisition for construction of the pipeline that will bring the ethane to the plant is “on track,” Whittemore said late last year.
Anyone wanting to learn more or to ask question, should contact DEP’s Southwest Regional Office, Dana Drake, Waterways and Wetlands Program Manager, 412-442-4000.
Mary Ann Thomas is a Tribune-Review staff writer. Reach her at 724-226-4691, [email protected] or via Twitter @MaThomas_Trib.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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