by Tik Root & Joseph Winters at GRIST via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FX6
The intense development of US Fracking, and criminal suppression of Irani and Venesuelan extraction, has made it the greatest oil producer, closely followed by fracking gas in a bid for a Plastics Monopoly
See also Fracking Gas and Oil to Supply Giant US Chemical Belt and Lock-in cheap Plastics Monopoly)
Most people don’t realize that part of gas extraction is a liquid condensate, the origin of plastics, which is being pumped, defying Climate Chaos, via the maze of fracking pipelines to the Gulf Coast, where the US is set on cornering the world plastics market, as well as shipping the LNG gas it has forced on its European vassals.
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Exxon’s proposal for a new plastics factory on the Gulf Coast raises alarms for a community already dealing with pollution.
Diane Wilson had heard rumors for months that Exxon might be coming to Point Comfort, Texas, which sits on the Gulf Coast south of Galveston.
She recalls whispers about the global behemoth hiring local electricians and negotiating railroad access.
Two days before Christmas, the first confirmation quietly arrived: an application for tax subsidies to build an $8.6 billion plastics manufacturing plant.
Wilson found the news particularly alarming.
She has spent years fighting to clean up pollution from another petrochemical plant and won a $50 million settlement against its owners, Formosa, in 2019.
Exxon would build its proposed facility across from that factory and discharge waste into the same waterways Wilson has spent decades fighting to protect.
Green Light given for Texas mega frack-gas pipeline via poor areas despite LNG expansion «pause». – The Free 2024 –An aerial shot of the chemical plants and factories that line the roads and suburbs of the area known as «Cancer Alley»
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