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Appalachia Storage and Trading Hub isn’t merely an idea or only a concept. And it’s not just a way to grow one specific region of our great nation. It’s a catalyst for follow-on chemical investment, econ dev, jobs, manufacturing and energy dominance”
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blueridgeoutdoors.com/environment/ap…
Appalachia Development Group, LLC (ADG) Chief Executive Steve Hedrick said. Hedrick is also the Chief Executive of Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research & Innovation Center (MATRIC).
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analysis.petchem-update.com/supply-chain-l…
The biggest energy project you’ve never heard of commonly goes by the acronym ASTH—the Appalachian Storage and Trading Hub. This massive petrochemical hub in West Virginia and Pennsylvania would be the largest infrastructure in the region’s history, consisting of hundreds of
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miles of pipelines, fracked gas processing facilities, and underground storage of petrochemicals and fracked gas liquids.

Its powerful backers—including the Trump administration, the Chinese government, and Shell Oil—claim it will revitalize a region torn apart by a fizzling
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coal industry. Trump and Xi, the president of China, met this past November on a trade mission, during which Xi Jinping signed on to invest nearly $84 billion in the ASTH over the next two decades—that’s more than West Virginia’s entire 2016 GDP.
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reuters.com/article/us-usa…
The investment by China Energy, which ranks among the world’s largest power companies by asset value, was the biggest among a slew of deals signed during U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit to Beijing in November. The total value of the deals could be as much as $250B
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@RepMcKinley says that the petrochemical hub “fits in well with Trump’s desire for more federal infrastructure investment.”

Opponents say it will be the country’s next Cancer Alley.

Nightmare, raping of the land, what is the real deal here?

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"The Appalachian Storage Hub is a $10+ billion infrastructure project that will allow the chemical and downstream sectors to grow synergistically, leading to an economic revitalization of the Appalachian Basin."

appastorage.com
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“Coal dug Appalachians’ grave, oil-and-gas built the coffin, and petrochemical industry wants to put the nails in the lid.”

blueridgeoutdoors.com/environment/ap…
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