# Revealed: how a UK firm is spearheading growth in trade of US fracked ethane

- Source: Guardian Business
- Published: 2026-11-08T13:00:41+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/08/ineos-fracking-us
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/revealed-how-a-uk-firm-is-spearheading-growth-in-trade-of-us-fracked-e-59f54a/

Ineos is driving exports with potentially far-reaching environmental and social repercussions “My children started getting sick,” says Lois Bower-Bjornson, a campaigner at the Clean Air Council in Washington County, Pennsylvania. “My oldest son had rashes all over his body. His ears, his eyelids, everywhere. My youngest had terrible nosebleeds, it was so bad that he became anaemic and would almost

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