As the multi-year, multi-billion-dollar moves forward between Pittsburgh and East Liverpool, ads have now been posted for the first permanent jobs at the facility.
Just 40 jobs are being filled initially, but 600 are expected. Mike Chadsey of the says it鈥檚 a turning point in the whole region.
鈥淭his cracker plant is the first step in making the Appalachian basin really competitive.鈥�
That's because the plant will convert much of the production of the shale wells into feed stock for the local plastics and paint industries instead of it being piped to distant energy markets.
鈥淲hen you鈥檙e talking about refining or ethane cracking, that鈥檚 the shot in the arm for the Appalachian region that it needed鈥攃reating an entire chemical and manufacturing renaissance that we鈥檝e sort of the been waiting on for the last couple of years.鈥�
The by a variety of environmental and property rights groups.
