(Beaver, Pa.) In a press release sent to Beaver County Radio the Beaver County Commissioners made the following statement: “The Beaver County Board of Commissioners want to publicly reiterate their emphatic support of Shell Chemicals and the ethane cracker plant being constructed in Potter Township. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has led the Commissioners to unanimously support the temporary work stoppage at the site, the Board also unanimously condemns the politically motivated letters being circulated by groups known ardently oppose to the Shell project.

These letters are distasteful and transparently political in motivation. Such ploys that have no place in the middle of a pandemic, the likes of which our nation has never seen. Now is a time to come together as community and nation, not divide and play politics.