There will be an evening community townhall meeting about the recent US EPA consent decree with Murphy Oil. We have not received any information about the date or location, but expect the meeting to be sometime in late March~early April. It may be published in the local newspaper, hopefully with a few weeks notice.
The refinery has marked the greenspace in the Ventura-Despaux neighborhood for placement of an ambient air monitor. The consent decree requires pollution control technology that should, after 5 years, bring about an improvement to the flaring in the neighborhood . A statement was made in a CAP meeting that another refinery expansion plan may occur during the installation of these pollution controls. The flare gas recovery system should be completed by late December 2016. A supplemental project will cover two waste water treatement tanks, reducing VOC emissions by almost a ton per year.
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