Serious This score is reserved for the most serious lapses – such as refineries withholding information from reviewers, using unethical means to influence them, knowingly taking conflict gold, or taking gold from suppliers they know to have used falsified or misrepresented paperwork.
For more information about refinery accidents and the refineries with the worst accident rates, visit the Refinery Accident Database.
Preventable tragedies keep occurring at refineries, despite abundant information on how to make them safer.
Executives from five oil companies were subpoenaed to appear at a state hearing next month and provide information about refinery capacity, pricing and profits earned after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
I have derived much useful information in his refinery particularly his method of separating silver, gold and paladium [palladium] by a shortened process".
In terms of outcomes, the data helped elect new town councilors who opposed refinery expansion, gave Richmond residents sufficient information to convince city government to deny refinery expansion, and helped them win a lawsuit (Brody et al. 2009).
Some may say these changes to existing law, while terrible, are not such a big deal since they only curtail public access to information about oil refineries.
But SB 1300 allows refinery owners to designate virtually any information at all a "trade secret," regardless of whether it qualifies legally as a trade secret.
Under SB 1300, if I file a PRA request for information submitted to the state by a refinery, the refinery will have the option of filing suit to block disclosure (irrespective of whether the agency wishes to disclose the records), in which case the refinery must file its suit against me, the requester, not just the state agency.
Federal government reports obtained by the Australian through freedom of information laws say the Townsville refinery poses "serious environmental threats" and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority had not prosecuted the refinery for dumping wastewater in Great Barrier Reef waters.
