Let's work together, energy leaders say, but remember that

Let's work together, energy leaders say, but remember that Shell picked Pennsylvania

Perhaps sports culture is to blame for the regional divide — the one-upmanship — that guided how Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio tried to lure large projects to their borders until Shell decided to build an ethane cracker in Beaver County and everyone was declared a winner, said Dave Spigelmyer, president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition.

Before the great reconciliation, it made sense to parade Shell executives onto Heinz Field to meet Troy Polamalu to tout the City of Champions through its Steelers football team.

Now it seems provincial and counterproductive to hail the Pittsburgh region as the ultimate champion in the cracker war.

Everyone’s a winner, said pretty much everyone who talked at the Northeast U.S. & Canada Petrochemical Construction Conference held at the Downtown Marriott last week.

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