The Ohio River LifeBoat Project from the STUDIO’s previous fellow Carolyn Lambert was a four month journey on a customized boat. The LifeBoat hosted potluck dinners to discuss the intersections of recreation and commerce, culture and ecology of the Ohio River. Drawing on the personal stories and memories of towboat captains, swimmers, casino boat pilots, …
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Did you know that Monaca is doing some of the most progressive things in the region related to sustainable municipal practices? To help tell this story, RiverWise (with the help of Human City Creative) is launching a series called “Monaca Sustainability.” The series will include half a dozen or so videos that tell this ongoing …
Over the past decade, fracking has extracted more gas than consumers demand, so the fracking industry has begun converting the gas glut into petrochemical products like plastic. Here, we’re at the construction site Shell Ethane Cracker, a facility that will crack fracked ethane to make polyethylene plastic. This is the primary component of a wave …
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Learn about Pennsylvania’s number one Non-Point Source Pollutant!
In Dr Cassandra Miller-Butterworth’s BIOL 220W (Fall 2020), students were asked to produce informative films on regionally significant environmental and sustainability issues.
This is the Shell Ethane cracker plant, on the Ohio River in Beaver County Pennsylvania. It’s just west of Monaca and Beaver. Right now, it’s paying a lot of construction worker salaries, but 90% of the jobs will disappear when it’s finished. In a year, there’ll be no more construction jobs, and a relatively small …
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Chemical fire 5 mile shelter radius. Possible burning chlorine. Bridge shut down. No alerts or warning to public. The worst was the last 15 seconds of this video AFTER the fire was over. (Make sure you watch the WHOLE video. It may look like its over but its not)
Pike Compressor Station Rochester, Beaver County, PA (40.748339, -80.169561) Filmed 12/23/2019