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Everyone loves paying less at the pump, but low oil prices are having a negative impact on plans for a boom to the economy in this area. Right now a few of the proposed projects are being put on hold due to falling energy prices and we can now count the Axiall project among those being held up by those low petro prices.

According to Axiall Corporation, at approximately 1:40 PM Friday, a fire occurred in the vinyl chloride manufacturing area of Axiall Lake Charles (formerly PPG) chemicals complex. The facility is located immediately southeast of the I-10/I-210 interchange on the west side of Lake Charles near Sulphur...

At about 1:45 this afternoon we started getting calls from listeners about a possible fire at a plant in Westlake. We could see the smoke being blown to the north from our studios on the lakefront in Lake Charles. We were informed by the Office of Emergency Management that there had been a fire at Axiall (the old PPG) and that there had been a hydrochloric acid release.

The final steps to merge PPG with Georgia Gulf Corporation have now been completed. The merger will create a new entity called "Axiall Corporation-