A third shows a woman decapitating a kayaker with an ax while a space shuttle takes off in the distance and an oil refinery belches smoke and fire on the horizon.
An explosion last year at a Torrance oil refinery spewed smoke and dust into surrounding neighborhoods and alerted residents to the dangers of living near the sprawling industrial complex.
We reach Shushufindi, a town of 30,000 where Texaco used to dump oil and which is now the site of a refinery, billowing black smoke and flames.
LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead?
More than 15,000 Richmond, Calif., residents sought medical treatment for breathing problems, chest pain, sore throats and headaches after an Aug. 6, 2012 fire at a Chevron refinery sent toxic smoke billowing for 10 miles.
Complicating matters, a fire broke out at Chevron's refinery in August, spewing smoke into the air and sending thousands to emergency rooms.
An Exxon refinery releases plumes of smoke as it towers over rows and rows of small single-family homes, many of them built a century ago for, and still occupied by, oil industry workers.
In southern summer heat of at least 120 degrees, with great plumes of flames and smoke at refineries dotting the horizon of a parched and desolate plain, workers at times moved so slowly that they seemed to be mirages.
Observed black smoke from the refinery 05:25 p.m.
Most personally, my family and I live near the refinery---on most days we can see the smoke stacks of the refinery hugging the shore of southern Lake Michigan.
