If they build this, I believe it will be the first new refinery built in the USA in over 30 years!
Now, if the Tribe could just get their firearms back from the benevolent and caring government.
When was the last refinery built in the United States?
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=29&t=6
There were a total of 144 operable petroleum refineries in the United States as of January 1, 2012.
The “newest” refinery in the United States began operating in 2008 in Douglas, Wyoming. However, the newest significant (or sophisticated) refinery began operating in 1977 in Garyville, Louisiana.
Capacity has also been added to existing refineries through upgrades or new construction. The most recent examples include:
In 1998, Orion Refinery massively upgraded and reopened a refinery in Norco, Louisiana, which was a small, simple refinery that originally opened in 1967. (It is now owned by Valero.)
Valero opened a “new” and very sophisticated refinery in 1983 in Corpus Christi, Texas, on the site of a simple refinery that originally opened in 1975.
The newest refineries currently operating in the United States are listed at the link:
From what I read a while back, the amount of product they put out will barely take care of the fuel needs of the local area and have almost zero impact on the overall fuel situation nationally. As to the nitrogen fertilizer plant they’re going to build, let’s hope it’s further out of town than the one that just popped in TX. That was a HUGE explosion. One the company said could NEVER happen.