Tag: Koch Industries

Detroit storage facility denied permit to store Koch brothers’ petcoke on bank of Detroit River

Detroit storage facility denied permit to store Koch brothers’ petcoke on bank of Detroit River

Detroit Bulk Storage has been denied a permit by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to store petcoke on the banks of the Detroit River. As you may recall, they were storing giant piles of the toxic byproduct of tar sands oil refining by Koch Carbon, an energy company owned by the billionaire Koch brothers. Last year, the piles were […]

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Petcoke from Canadian tar sands piling up in another urban US city: Chicago

Petcoke from Canadian tar sands piling up in another urban US city: Chicago

Funny how it’s never near a posh neighborhood of mansions… Cloud of petcoke dust rises over Detroit in the summer of 2013 This past summer, thanks to the hue and cry from Democrats in Michigan as well as Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, a group owned by the notorious Koch brothers was forced to take their noxious, toxic piles of petcoke […]

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Nothing to see here, just a giant cloud of Detroit petcoke dust blowing into Canada

Nothing to see here, just a giant cloud of Detroit petcoke dust blowing into Canada

Just a totally harmless cloud of heavy metal-laden black dust, no problem at all The large piles of petcoke that have been stored on the banks of the Detroit River delivered a little surprise to the residents of Windsor across the border last weekend in the form of a thick black cloud of dust kicked up by a storm. Here’s […]

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Koch Carbon piling up mountains of potentially toxic petroleum coke on banks of the Detroit River

Koch Carbon piling up mountains of potentially toxic petroleum coke on banks of the Detroit River

What could possibly go wrong?

On the banks of the Detroit River, giant three-story tall mountains of black rock have been accumulating, quickly and quietly enough to take a lot of Detroiters and neighboring Canadians by surprise. The piles are petroleum coke or “pet coke”, a by-product of the processing of tar sands oil from Canada. A newly upgraded Marathon Petroleum refinery in Detroit now allows them to process the tar sands oil, producing copious amounts of the high-sulfur, high-carbon waste product.

A recent New York Times article shows that Michiganders and Canadians alike are concerned by the use of land directly on the Detroit River to store the potentially hazardous pet coke.

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This is how it’s done – Dems on the ATTACK!

Cross-posted at Blogging for Michigan. After yesterday’s primary in Michigan, Congressman Mark Schauer (MI-07) now has a general election opponent. As predicted, it’s a rematch against his former for Tim Walberg, a former bible salesman and Baptist minister. I’ve written about him before. The primary results are not yet a day old but Congressman Schauer has already sent two emails […]

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