Corbett Wooed And Googled To Win Ethane Cracker

The Corbett Administration played its cards close as it pitched Shell on building an ethane cracker in western Pennsylvania. During a press conference this afternoon, we learned more details of how involved Governor Corbett became in the bid.
The Post-Gazette reports Corbett held “four or five” meetings with Shell’s CEO. Corbett even did some googling: “I know that we were in competition with West Virginia and Ohio. I would spend hours at the governor’s residence in my library on my computer on Google Map, pulling up the Ohio River the whole way, and saying where are the best facilities, not even knowing what they were, just looking for open areas. I kept coming back to the facility that was selected,” he told reporters.

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