'bout damned time!Of course, this is gonna bring every leftist group out of the woodwork. No way do they want increased refining capacity.
Time for the environwackos to "discover" an endangered species living on the site.
Posted on 03/23/2005 8:34:34 AM PST by adam_az
The Arizona Clean Fuels project would be the first refinery ever built in Arizona and the first in the United States in nearly three decades.
'Bout darned time!
Great, hope they build more and drill in ANWR!We have to stop being so dependent on Arab oil.
In a country where oil has been such an important issue for well over 40 years, this lack of action makes no sense.
the EPA approved state regulators’ draft permit
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LOL Well that accomplished something...
Looks like another year+ of objections. I bet the environmentalists find someting like 'the jumping mouse':
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331856/posts
Abolish the EPA (and throw in these state regulators too).
Get it built and get Kinder Morgan out our state ASAP!
'bout damned time!Of course, this is gonna bring every leftist group out of the woodwork. No way do they want increased refining capacity.
Time for the environwackos to "discover" an endangered species living on the site.
Great news for us Arizonans! No more relying upon ancient gas pipes from Texas and Cali.
Yup. We need Anne-War and about 20 more of these places built pronto.
Over all good news for the Yuma project, one I have been tracking for several years (w/o holding my breath). This has long been a "pie-in-the-sky" and no longer appears on any project reports or forecasts.
However, there have been other refineries in Arizona:
The two refineries in Arizona remained shut down in 2001. The Intermountain Refinery near Fredonia was removed from active status in January 1997. The Sunbelt Refinery near Coolidge was removed from active status in August 1993.
I cannot stand it when reporter's do not do their homework.
Well worth reading.
Hallelujah. Wonderful news. Let's build another one!
If it is built there will still be K-M pipelines in AZ. or Pacific-Texas or someone.
You are correct there will still be pipelines in our state, but if the build enough capacity into the refinery maybe we can turn the pipelines off! Thus getting Kinder Morgan out of Arizona.
thanks for the link. The article is quite fascinating. There is no doubt, Nuclear power will make a big return, and rightly so.
only need a few dozen more now
Great! Now we need about 50% more refineries than we have now and a streamlining of the boutique fuel enviro-nonsense, then gas prices can be driven back to half of their current price.
If y'all want cheaper motor fuels, this is a beginning.
Don't stop breathing just yet. There's a world of difference between securing the permit and actually getting the project built. Doubtless the leftists are even now preparing hundreds upon hundreds of lawsuits challenging every provision of the permit you can imagine. Most of them will be completely frivolous actions and will be dismissed out of hand, but they will still serve their purpose of clogging up the courts and delaying construction on the project.
And all they have to do is get a few of them in front of the right liberal activist judges, and they can litigate the permit for years and years. These left wing groups have unlimited funds thanks to outfits like the Tides Foundation, unlimited access to far left attorneys and law students who will volunteer to perform much of the legal scut, and the full backing and support of the democrat party and it's media.
The permittee, OTOH, has to shoulder every penny of the cost of defending his interests, including all the engineering studies and expert analyses. He can also count on being subjected to a non-stop smear campaign in the press, along with any politician who dares to voice support for the project.
The leftist assault is carefully designed to wear these people down, make them decide that it's too expensive and damaging to their long-term interests to proceed with the project, and then to abandon it. It succeeds all too often.
The extreme left and the democrats have effectively imposed a moratorium on energy infrastructure improvements in this country that has endured for decades. They will go all out to keep that moratorium in place.
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