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EPA: BP violated Clean Air Act in Whiting

Associated Press
5:38 PM CDT, October 2, 2008

WHITING, Ind. - BP PLC violated the Clean Air Act by beginning to make modifications at its Indiana oil refinery along Lake Michigan to process Canadian crude before it received the proper permit, federal regulators said Thursday.

The allegation was included in an amended complaint by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The complaint alleges BP violated the law by making several unapproved changes in 2005 when it altered a unit at the refinery that converts heavy oils into lighter products such as gasoline.

The EPA said in November the modifications caused “significant increases” in sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, particulate matter and carbon monoxide emitted from the refinery….([1] Full Story)
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Comment by folc.ca : It is not clear at all what BP will do with the sulphur it will recover from the heavy crude it gets from Canada.  As of now the US does not permit storage of sulphur to block.