Given its reputation as the biggest pile of coal waste east of the Mississippi, the Champion Processing gob pile in Washington County has had a remarkable number of hopes built on top of its black dust. So far, none have been achieved.
A natural gas processing plant in Washington County remains offline after a Christmas day fire ripped through a section of the Energy Transfer facility, sending fire from a flare into the sky for more than 10 hours.
A Southwestern Pennsylvania company that was looking to build a natural-gas power plant in Washington County has cancelled its plans, and withdrawn its request for a permit from Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental protection.
Consol's plan is to build a 300-megawatt plant near its Pennsylvania Mining Complex in Greene and Washington counties, the largest underground mining complex in North America.
