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Chesapeake Energy Pulling Ethane Won't Hold Back West Virginia

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Sometimes, we in West Virginia feel we are being picked on, and sometime we are right.

Our response in some cases is to go on the defensive and assume the worse.

Last week Chesapeake Energy announced they were selling their gas by-product ethane to facilities on the Gulf Coast.

Many folks thought this was yet another chapter in the feud between Chesapeake and the great state of West Virginia.

You'll recall they lost a multi-million-dollar verdict and were denied an appeal in court, and then they moved their regional headquarters out of West Virginia.

Ethane is needed for the proposed cracker plant being considered for West Virginia. But fear not, there is enough ethane under our hills to power all our cracker plants.

This was a timely business decision for Chesapeake, not a death sentence for our cracker plant.