Absolutely. Here where I live we have a refinery a few miles up the road. Its been there since the late 40's early 50's. Its in an area that was sparsely developed back when the refinery was built. Today, the area is built up fairly well. The refinery has been under fire by environmental activists for about two decades. It exchanged hands several times then after Valero it was abandoned and slated to be scrapped. The activists went nuts with joy and threw parties to celebrate their succeeding in running the company out and putting several hundred skilled workers out of a job. Well, PBF refinery purchased the old refinery and started pouring in a ton of money improving the location, installing scrubbers and new equipment to prevent breakdowns and accidental releases of what ever.
A few years ago they decided to drop serious money on a rail terminal on their property. They hired a LOT of people, and spent a LOT of money building a huge rail terminal capable to handling hundreds of car loads of Bakken crude. Well you would have thought someone started poisoning newborns. Stories of gloom and doom and massive destruction, and noise pollution came out of nowhere. These dopes bought next to or near a rail line hoping it would never or seldom be used and now they will see multiple 100 car trains rumble through each day. They tried everything from suing PBF claiming they didn't get the correct permits to suing the state claiming they violated every federal environmental law in the book. All of them were eventually tossed out thank goodness. The hand wringers still try to come up with something to harass these people, you'll see them near the perimeter fences with monitoring devices trying to record noise levels and pollution levels. Security is tight now and anyone who stops near the fences is chased away. Security is always there when ever any of the trains have to cross the highways on either side of the facility which are gated and monitored, to keep these idiots from running into the property and vandalizing so they can get evidence that something bad happened.
You would think these dopes would be happy that 400 tanker trucks a day were off the highways and these products were being transported in the most efficient and safest manner possible. Sadly, these hand wringers have no life and constantly live in their own contrived state of anxiety.
Gandy
Is that the refinery Delta Airlines bought?
