It's fatal.
A verbis ad verbera
Posted on 07/04/2009 3:04:54 AM PDT by Scanian
More unemployment means a smaller carbon footprint, as California greenies succeed in convincing a judge to shut down a needed modernization of California's oldest refinery, the massive 104 year old Chevron Richmond refinery. David R. Baker of the San Francisco Chronicle reports:
A judge has ordered Chevron Corp. to stop work on its controversial oil refinery expansion in Richmond, handing environmentalists their biggest victory in a long fight over the project.
Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga gave Chevron 60 days to wind up work on the project, which would have given the 107-year-old refinery greater flexibility to process different types of crude oil. Zuniga's orders, dated Wednesday, were released Thursday.
Her ruling doesn't kill the upgrade project outright. But before it could proceed, Chevron would need a new environmental impact report and a new permit from the Richmond City Council, which narrowly approved the project last year. Zuniga ruled last month that the original environmental report didn't answer key questions, siding with environmental and community groups that had sued to stop the expansion.
One hundred workers were laid off yesterday, and as many as a thousand may lose thier jobs as the project shuts down. After years of effort, and many millions of dollars expended, I wonder if Chevron will be willing to risk another round? Might jus be simpler to buy refined products elsewhere, or maybe invest in a refinery in Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In the name of Mother Earth, I order you to stop producing gasses that may or may not cause the environment to warm or cool, dependent on the phases of the sun and its spots.
Mental madness of an order unseen since Jimmuh. The People’s Republik of Broke-afornia is bankrupt in ways that surpass the budget.
I think what is needed is to find out how many gallons of fuel that refinery produced and reduce the fuel going into California by that amount. Of course that wont happen.
California also relies on their electricity to come from other places so they don't have plants next to any California homes.
They are going broke and they deserve to go broke.
Try electing a greenie as energy minister or secretary, whatever and see what he/she does to the granola state’s economy.
Speaking of Green idiots, Waxman went to hospital last week and last i knew he was still there. Anyone have an update?
We’re seeing it on a national scale. Have you looked at the members of the Obama Administration?
It's fatal.
We outnumber them—we just need to meet their activism head-on. Unfortunately, most conservatives actually have lives, which puts us at a disadvantage against the obsessive Left. We’re just going to have to make up our minds to make small sacrifices now in order to ward off huge burdens later.
Yes—I’m afraid California is a case study in people getting the government they deserve.
The refinery at Whiting (on Lake Michigan) was doing upgrades to use Canadian oil for refining into gasoline. The EPA approved the project under Bush because it met all Clean Water Act requirements. Environmentalists (via Daley and the city of Chicago — imagine that!) tried to block the expansion on the basis that the ammonia discharge into Lake Michigan would be twice what it was before. While true, the discharge would STILL MEET the Clean Water requirements. Last I knew, the Feds were allowing it to go forward, but I don’t know if it has been completed, or what it’s status is. It sounds similar to the Richmond situation, except we have a different administration....
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Checkout this press release from the ASPS and the Pope UrbanVIII Keeping The Faith Awards
http://www.theusmat.com/
Refineries will be shut down across the country once the Cap and Tax carbon tax clicks in. Many will leave the country to refine elsewhere where they dont have this severe carbon tax
Then, most of our gasoline like our oil will be imported.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=avLVPogS6lh0
Clean energy act = no economy act!!! Want to destroy our economy limit energy. It is the simplest tool available. Based on political science, they will destroy our ecomony!!!
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