June 4th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
HT: Drudge
The Sioux City (SD) Journal reports that Union County, SD, voted to approve the rezoning of farmland to accommodate our country’s newest refinery in 30 years.
The final tally was 3,932 votes in favor of the ordinance and 2,832 against.Hyperion touted the so-called “green” technology in its proposed energy center, which it claims would be the world’s cleanest. The refinery would process 400,000 barrels of tar sands crude a day from Alberta into low-sulfur gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Supporters argued that tapping into reserves from our neighbor to the north would reduce the nation’s dependence on Mideast oil and add badly needed refining capacity in the U.S., where the last all-new refinery was built in 1976.
Very, very cool. This new refinery has a chance to not only help us out with our gasoline situation but show that petroleum technology can be clean too. The location is great, too, near newly discovered reserves in North Dakota.
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