Daniel Rossi-Keene
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68 appearances
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 23 Mar
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Meanwhile, incomes for Beaver County residents are down and reliance on food assistance is up.
Nick Messinger, senior economist at the think tank the Ohio River Valley Institute, says Shell's plant has been a bust for a few reasons.
Other companies built new plants like Shell's, so there's a glut of production capacity.
Meanwhile, more of us opted for reusable water bottles instead of the single-use ones made from the plant's plastic.
He also says this idea of a community putting all its proverbial eggs in one basket might have worked in the age of the steel plants, but not a great bet today.
And that is precisely the insight that's guiding Daniel Rossi Keene of the local development nonprofit Riverwise.
He's a small business owner himself.
He owns a bookstore.
He's employed dozens of people and written thousands of paychecks.
On our driving tour, he stops by a metal scrap drop-off site run by a nonprofit he's partnered with.
It uses the scrap to repair bicycles, then it gives them to children.
Output which is almost entirely invested back into Beaver County.
In a statement, Shell said its plant, quote, continues to deliver ongoing economic value in the Commonwealth.
In Beaver County, Pennsylvania, I'm Kaylee Wells for Marketplace.
Daniel Rossi-Keene has lived in Beaver County for 15 years.
He runs a local community development nonprofit called Riverwise.
He's touring me through small town after small town along the Ohio River, past lots of people in Pittsburgh sealers beanies, plus boarded up storefronts and closed down factories and power plants.
Fourteen years ago, some residents were convinced that a new plant would reverse Beaver County's decline.
It's the height of the shale boom.
Pennsylvania and neighboring states were one of the largest sources of natural gas in the whole country.
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