[CPEO-BIF] Marathon Oil, Detroit, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Michigan's expansive view of brownfields never ceases to amaze me. In 
this instance, the owner of an operating oil refinery is seeking 
brownfields tax credits to expand on site. - LS]

Marathon considers expanding southwest Detroit refinery


By JOHN GALLAGHER
DETROIT FREE PRESS (MI)
August 9, 2007

Marathon Petroleum Co. is weighing a $1 billion investment to upgrade 
and expand its oil refinery operation in Southwest Detroit.

Best known for its tank farm along I-75 in southwest Detroit, the 
refinery has a current capacity to refine 100,000 barrels a day. That 
would increase to 115,000 barrels a day, and the refinery would be 
upgraded to refine new types of supply, including heavy Canadian crude 
oil known as “tar sands” that it cannot refine now.

If it proceeds, the work would create 135 new jobs on the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070809/BUSINESS/70809038/1002/BUSINESS

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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