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Detroits dirty petcoke piles disappear, but where did they go?

2013-09-06 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: The Koch brothers finally took their towering piles of tar-sands oil refinery waste away from Detroit. But where did they send the stuff? That`s a bit of a mystery. Huge piles of petroleum coke started building up along the city`s riverfront after a refinery began processing tar-sands oil from Canada in November. Koch Carbon, an affiliate of Koch Industries, peered into the dark mass and saw, ka-ching, opportunity, so it bought up all the waste. The material has little commercial value in...

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