You’ve got the wrong refinery. The refinery on fire yesterday is the current Tesoro Refinery, which is the former Shell Refinery before the Texaco Refinery was sold to Shell due to FTC rules when Chevron merged with Texaco. In other words, Shell swapped refineries, and this is Shell’s forme refinery, the one with the green tankage. The former Texaco Refinery (Texaco, Equilon, Puget Sound Refinery, et al), now the Shell refinery, is outside the picture frame to the right.
Yeah, the “enviroweenies” are throwing a hissy fit here in opposition to the cargo trains hauling in the Bakken oil. The plant managers are currently trying to increase the railroad facilities to handle more tank cars, but they are being opposed by people who are equating the oil tank car trains to death trains being rolling bombs in their communities.
They get to have their cake and eat it too! No pipelines and no rail cars!