Posted: Dec 09, 2009 8:15 PM
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:15 PM EST
Updated: Dec 09, 2009 8:15 PM
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:15 PM EST
12.09.09
NIPOMO MESA – They've been refining crude oil at the facility along Highway One on the Nipomo Mesa since 1955.
Now ConocoPhillips, owner of the refinery, wants to increase production at its facility from 44,500 to 48,950 barrels a day.
"We plan to do that by just using our existing equipment increasing some efficiencies at various places in the refinery", says refinery superintendent James Anderson, "we don't intend to have any new construction go on, no new facilities will be built."
Anderson says there will be no net increase in current emissions which are closely regulated and monitored by both the county and the state.
The public will be given ample opportunity to participate in the environmental review process.
"Its not just air quality it goes beyond that, assessing all of the impacts as well", says Aeron Arlin Genet of the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District, "traffic will be assessed, water usage will be assessed, any change that is notable to this proposed project."
Public hearings will be hosted by both the County of San Luis Obispo and the Air Pollution Control District.
"Greenhouse gas emissions, that's a relatively new emission to be added into the CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act)mix and greenhouse gas emissions will obviously be evaluated during this review as well will toxic emissions", adds Arlin Genet.
The ConocoPhillips refinery takes crude that's pumped from local fields and from the Central Valley and makes semi-refined liquid products
"We ship these products by pipeline up to our refinery in Rodeo, California near Berkeley and they would finish processing them into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel", Anderson says, "we have the ability with the existing equipment to use it more fully and you know frankly better economic times when we have a real high demand for fuel this will allow us to help fulfill that demand here in California."
The first public hearings for the ConocoPhillips proposed expansion are expected to begin about six months from now.
To read more about the project go to www.slocleanair.org.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:15 PM EST
Updated: Dec 09, 2009 8:15 PM
Wednesday, December 9, 2009 8:15 PM EST
12.09.09
NIPOMO MESA – They've been refining crude oil at the facility along Highway One on the Nipomo Mesa since 1955.
Now ConocoPhillips, owner of the refinery, wants to increase production at its facility from 44,500 to 48,950 barrels a day.
"We plan to do that by just using our existing equipment increasing some efficiencies at various places in the refinery", says refinery superintendent James Anderson, "we don't intend to have any new construction go on, no new facilities will be built."
Anderson says there will be no net increase in current emissions which are closely regulated and monitored by both the county and the state.
The public will be given ample opportunity to participate in the environmental review process.
"Its not just air quality it goes beyond that, assessing all of the impacts as well", says Aeron Arlin Genet of the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District, "traffic will be assessed, water usage will be assessed, any change that is notable to this proposed project."
Public hearings will be hosted by both the County of San Luis Obispo and the Air Pollution Control District.
"Greenhouse gas emissions, that's a relatively new emission to be added into the CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act)mix and greenhouse gas emissions will obviously be evaluated during this review as well will toxic emissions", adds Arlin Genet.
The ConocoPhillips refinery takes crude that's pumped from local fields and from the Central Valley and makes semi-refined liquid products
"We ship these products by pipeline up to our refinery in Rodeo, California near Berkeley and they would finish processing them into gasoline, jet fuel and diesel", Anderson says, "we have the ability with the existing equipment to use it more fully and you know frankly better economic times when we have a real high demand for fuel this will allow us to help fulfill that demand here in California."
The first public hearings for the ConocoPhillips proposed expansion are expected to begin about six months from now.
To read more about the project go to www.slocleanair.org.
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