(AP) — Dozens of people were injured Thursday night in an explosion and fire at a sugar refinery that was felt by residents throughout this Savannah suburb, the authorities said.
However, Reuters has reported that in 2013 Vice President Joe Biden offered to weaken the RFS as a response to a request from Congressman Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, whose district includes an oil refinery that was near bankruptcy due to its struggle to comply with the RFS.
The explosion took place in a part of the refinery that was in the late stages of a three-week shutdown for maintenance and refurbishment, its first in approximately two years.
In February and March, the developers approached the commission with a proposal for a glass addition planned for the roof of the former Williamsburg refinery that was criticized by both the commissioners and the public.
It's the same abandoned, 11-acre refinery that's set for total demolition later this year, a tear-down that will pave the way for condos, leaving behind one lone red brick building as memory of the 19th century fixture.
An aluminum refinery that was built in 1973 transformed the city into an important centre of the Japanese aluminum industry.
In April, Chevron resumed operations at the crude oil unit of the refinery that was shut down after the blaze.
Motiva isn't the only refinery that was affected, of course.
You would eventually have a bio-refinery that is not unlike today's oil refinery, but much greener.
