Published on July 3, 2018
Dense clusters of petrochemical plants, with their towering chemical reactors and mazes of pipes, line roads busy with semi-trucks hauling the goods needed to keep the industry running. Construction cranes promise more development to come. Canada is pushing to change that dynamic, vying to become more competitive with its neighbor at a time when U.S. trade policy and tariffs threaten to increase the cost of building and expanding Gulf Coast petrochemical plants.