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Today we're taking a trip along the Ohio River to see how the expanding petrochemical industry is impacting the country's most polluted river. #savetheohio 
Our first site: the Revolution natural gas #pipelineexplosion. Karen Gdula describes her experience waking up to the fire in her backyard.
The Shell Ethane Cracker- the plant contains 42 aluminum silos to hold the 1.6 MILLION tons of plastic pellets it will make per yr (pictured). #frackingforplastic
We're passing industrial site after industrial site- coal, steel, gas. We're ready for a #justtransition to a sustainable future, not another extractive industry.
The proposed site of the region's 2nd Ethane cracker, in Belmont County, OH, is the site of a former coal plant. Let's keep it green! 🌳
The Natrium fractionation plant separates #naturalgasliquids from #naturalgas for use by the petrochemical industry. Fractionation capacity increased 20 fold between 2010 and 2016 in the Marcellus/Utica region.
