Effort renewed to get Web site started to promote Wellsville economy, coal-to-liquid fuel plant

WELLSVILLE — A second attempt is under way to create a Web site to help promote a proposed coal-to-liquid fuel plant and the area economy in general.

The first attempt was never completed, although the Web site operated at one time, Pamela Hoppel, the chief executive officer of the St. Clair Area Chamber of Commerce, said Monday.

Hoppel said she’s coordinating the project.

The Web site was and will remain www.columbianacountyareachambers.com.

“It’s totally down now if you click on the Web site,” Hoppel said.

The chambers of commerce in 2007 banded together on the cooperative plan. They are the chambers of commerce in St. Clair Township, Columbiana, East Liverpool, Lisbon, Salem, East Palestine, Wellsville, Leetonia and Washingtonville in Ohio and the Chester/Newell Area Chamber in West Virginia.

The cooperative plan was the first time the local chambers agreed to work together.

The chambers hired Newbold Technologies in East Liverpool to create the new site. No completion date has been set.

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