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Suncor oil refinery spewed hundreds of pounds of toxic gases over Denver again after Xcel power outage
Suncor says concentrations of hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide were below health-based standards in nearby neighborhoods
Malfunctions after a power outage at the Suncor Energy oil refinery just north of Denver triggered toxic belches spewing more than 100 pounds of hydrogen sulfide and more than 500 pounds of sulfur dioxide gas into the air, exceeding state air quality limits.
The refinery also emitted carbon monoxide at concentrations up to 1,120 parts per million, according to a company report submitted to state health officials and reviewed by The Denver Post.
This was the second time in five months that a power-supply hiccup led to a sudden burst of toxic air pollution from the refinery. Its the latest challenge at one of Colorados most problematic industrial sites.
Xcel Energy officials said power was out for 6 minutes Saturday night. Suncor spokeswoman Lisha Burnett on Thursday said power was out for more than 13 hours starting at 9:54 p.m. The unexpected power interruption triggered automatic and manual safety shut downs and refinery still wasnt back to normal operations, Burnett said.
Xcel Energys failure to provide the refinery with a continuous power feed caused a temporary inability of Suncor to comply with certain of its permit limits, she said. The loss of power was completely outside of Suncors control, and Suncor took a number of measures to minimize the impacts and reduce emissions caused by the loss of power.
Suncor officials responded to the problem by closing Brighton Boulevard between 56th and 60th avenues Saturday night. Suncor also sent air-monitoring trucks into surrounding neighborhoods.
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Suncor oil refinery spews 8.5 tons a year of cyanide gas over low ...
The Denver Post-Apr 19, 2018
Suncor Energy's oil refinery is spewing 8.5 tons a year of invisible hydrogen cyanide gas over low-income north Denver neighborhoods, state records show. Community groups in Globeville, Swansea and Elyria this week petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to require Colorado health officials to ...
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If they had solar panels maybe they wouldn't have lost power at night.....
If Colorado had voted for Trump, maybe he would care they are all breathing in swamp gas....
If Colorado wants to pay a lot more for gas, they could shut the refinery down...
So? Modern civilization relies on toxic crap. The crap we make requires workers. Workers generally are not going to commute out into the middle of nowhere every day (Area 51 being a possible exception) so people are going to be living close to factories and facilities that expose them to toxic crap. Sometimes you DNC liberals are as myopic as freaking conservatives who expect us to live in some Little House on the Prairie type existence. You just want us not to be exposed to certain things that are necessary for every day modern life and they expect us not to have to be exposed to people and ideas different than theirs.
Higher HCN is a tradeoff for lower nitrogen oxide emissions. You can have less particulate matter or less hydrogen cyanide. Since the clean air act is all about particulates, they went the way they went. Since humans are imperfect and our knowledge is incomplete, we do the best we can with what we've got. We consume in the US alone over a third of a billion gallons of gas a day. You are not going to have pollution-free production.
Theoretically possible and realistic are seldom the same. The higher HCN levels are a direct result of lowering nitrogen and sulfuric particulate matter and still be able to process different inputs. Just because you can sit there with your nose up in the air and be holier than thou does not change that this is a result of people's desire to have cars and crap on the grocery store shelves when the schlep their arses out for some snacks. Whatever device you are using to input your condescension into so it will travel through the universe to my desk added to environmental degradation. You are no better than the people who made the decision to have the high HCN levels that you find offensive.
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