PROMOTING AND PROTECTING OUR RIVERS REQUIRES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION (Click to enlarge above image)
From the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC), July 10, 2022
Join BCMAC and friends July 17th to celebrate the Ohio River! We’ll have a free cookout and food, summer games, an info session with the Three Rivers Water Keepers, kayaking (feel free to bring your own), and a river clean-up with Mountain Watershed Association. We’ll also be giving out free school supplies!
(**In the event of inclement weather please check the Facebook page for any day of updates.)
Please register (RSVP) so we know how much food to bring. And please spread the word!
The event is being held at the Monaca River Front Park, which does not require steps to enter and has a bathroom and handicap-accessible bathroom on site. Childcare is not provided, but the event is child friendly, with children’s activities and a playground on site.
If you are feeling sick, have had a direct covid exposure, or have tested positive for covid within the past week, please sit this one out and join us next time! The event will be held completely outdoors and is not in a scent-free or scent-reduced environment. COVID-19 vaccination is not required to attend, but masks are encouraged and will be available on-site, with event organizers asking that attendees respect the need for distance between themselves and others.
Our mailing address is: Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community, P.O. Box 31, Ambridge, PA 15003
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Hopes and fears over the giant Shell Cracker chemical facility, The Allegheny Front, June 10, 2022
Since the company’s plans were first announced, the plant has conjured hope as well as fear for many in Beaver County. Some hope for good jobs, while others fear a return of toxic skies and waterways that plagued western Pennsylvania during the steel era.
Count Skip Homan in the former group. “I see the light [of the plant] at night from my house,” said Homan. “And no, I’m not bothered… I have a high degree of confidence that Shell will be good for the environment here.”
But some are not so happy. Joyce Hanshaw lives across the Ohio River from the plant in the town of Vanport. She and her husband Don, a retired steelworker, used to have bonfires in their backyard but stopped since the plant was constructed. “The whole area here is all lit up all the time. So there’s no really no nighttime here,” said Hanshaw, 72.
Hanshaw and her husband bought their house in 1973. She doesn’t want to move, mostly because the house is paid off. She says she’s already heard strange sounds coming from the plant. “You heard this whoooo – and didn’t even know what the devil was going on. I thought it was a train coming down the street,” she said.
Hanshaw, who uses an inhaler to help her breathe because of a lung condition, says she’s worried about what kind of health problems the plant might cause when it goes online. “I’m just wondering for health reasons,” Hanshaw said, “what’s it going to be like?”
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/in-beaver-county-a-mix-of-hope-and-fear-over-startup-of-shells-ethane-cracker/