On Monday June 18th 2018 more than 60 “kayactivists” from three states met on water and land for the “Paddle Against Petro” on the Allegheny River.The event was held in conjunction with the start of Northeast U.S. Petrochemical Construction conference inside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, which draws executives form Shell, Chevron and other industry, and ...

By Mark DixonLots of people approach me and ask about the Shell Cracker. They often don’t know that it is designed to make plastic from fracked natural gas. They often don’t know that it will require a pipeline that will pass near 240 groundwater wells and put 8700 people into its “vapor zone.” What they all do know is that they heard it was a “done deal,” implying that it ...

By Thaddeus PopovichShell Pipeline Company rolled into Raccoon Township Fire Hall this month, their usual company entourage and multimedia show in tow.More than a dozen employees – clad in slate-colored golf shirts with the orange company logo – milled about the room setting up large topographical maps of the Shell Falcon Pipeline route on tri-pods. The meeting started and followed a ...

Jumping straight to the point with, "polite people get poisoned," Lois Gibbs delivered a powerful keynote speech in April  with messages for those working to resist the massive and devastating petrochemical expansion led by the Shell Ethane Cracker Plant in SW Pennsylvania as part of Clean Air Council's major event, "Building a Future Full of Hope and Promise: Improving Air Quality in ...