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Could Delco Get a Major LNG Export Terminal?

Kenny Cooper
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WHYY
The city of Chester is an environmental justice community.

Plans are in the works for a massive liquefied natural gas facility and export terminal in Chester along the Delaware River. While company officials have shopped the project to local and state politicians for years, news of the immense industrial facility took community members and environmentalists by surprise.

WHYY’s Kenny Cooper looks at how the facility could face hurdles in an environmental justice community.

(Original air-date: 6/20/22)

Kenny Cooper is WHYY’s suburban reporter covering Montgomery and Delaware counties. He joined WHYY in November 2020. Kenny, a Montgomery County native, graduated in 2020 from Temple University with a BA in journalism and political science.