"A Black Mound of Canadian Oil Waste Is Rising Over Detroit"

[Smidge204]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/b...nds-rises-in-detroit.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2&

WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River.

Though some may argue this is an improvement for local property values...
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[thankyouOB]

koch brothers bring the coke.

 

[AndyH]

http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2013/01/OCI.Petcoke.FINALSCREEN.pdf

 

[RonDawg]

I guess it's payback from the Canadians having to look at Detroit for all these years....

 

[apvbguy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/18/b...nds-rises-in-detroit.html?smid=fb-share&_r=2&

WINDSOR, Ontario — Assumption Park gives residents of this city lovely views of the Ambassador Bridge and the Detroit skyline. Lately they’ve been treated to another sight: a three-story pile of petroleum coke covering an entire city block on the other side of the Detroit River.

Though some may argue this is an improvement for local property values...
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the downside of the the energy boom

 

[AndyH]

The nasty part of this product is that it's one of the few carbon sources on the planet cheaper than coal. The Marathon plant in Detroit processes tar sands dilbit (delivered by the Enbridge pipeline that spilled almost 1 million gallons into the Kalamazoo river in Marshall, MI in July 2010). This is part of the carbon flow that makes tar sands as bad as it is. Then there's that high sulfur' thing...

http://www.petcokeconsulting.com/primer/index.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/26/detroit-refinery-marathon-tar-sands_n_3156341.html

 

[AndyH]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg_PQKRHfX0[/youtube]

 

[evnow]

There was a piece on this on NPR too. Burning this is worse than the worst coal.

 

[saiyankevin]

Every time it rains, toxins must runoff into the river and leach into the soil and groundwater. Amazing this is legal.