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Hearing on Shell’s Beaver County cracker plant brings out economic benefits and health concerns

When one of the plant’s furnaces exploded last June, union leader Kenneth Broadbent said, the company brought in 110 workers from Louisiana to do repairs. “The building trades and construction workers from Southwestern Pennsylvania built that plant. … If we’re gonna give tax credits, Pennsylvania workers should come first.”

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