Deadline to Comment on Draft NPDES Permit for PPT Cracker Plant

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is seeking public input on a NPDES permit for the proposed ethane cracker plant at Shadyside in Belmont County, OH.

OEPA will hold a public information session Dec. 12 on draft modifications to the wastewater discharge permit for the $6 billion petrochemical complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical America. A public hearing will immediately follow the information session.

The Ohio draft permit is available for public review at the agency’s district office in Logan, Ohio. The EPA is acceptings comment on the draft wastewater permit through Dec. 19. They may be submitted at [email protected].

According to this article:

the plant, if approved and if built, annually would produce 1.5 million tons of ethylene and other materials. The plant would use six ethane cracking furnaces and manufacture ethylene, high-quality polyethylene and linear low-density polyethylene.

The EPA will accept public comment on the draft air permit through Dec. 11. Comments may be sent to [email protected].

Earlier this year, PTT approved an agreement with a subsidiary of Daelim Industrial Co. Ltd., a leading Korean construction and chemical company, to conduct a feasibility study and to secure funding for the Ohio petrochemical complex.

PTT Global Chemical America is a subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical, Thailand’s largest integrated petrochemical company.

Royal Dutch Shell is building a similar ethane cracker in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, northwest of Pittsburgh.

The plants would take ethane from drilling in the Utica and Marcellus shales and turn it into ethylene and polyethylene for making plastics.

 

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