Sentences with phrase «nearby oil refinery»

Workers at a nearby oil refinery may have jobs that are considered riskier than average.

Dwarfed by the nearby oil refinery, the modest tube represents an attempt to one day wean Hawaii from imported oil.

A further study in October of last year found an average ratio of female to male births of 54:46 in about 90 Canadian communities, a shift that James Argo of the IntrAmericas Centre for Environment and Health in Ontario attributes to dioxin pollution from nearby oil refineries, metal smelters, coke ovens, and pulp mills.

Not exact matches

A convention center in Minnesota has opened to accept people forced from their homes by a smoky fire at a nearby Wisconsin oil refinery.

Superior Fire Chief Steve Panger initially told The Associated Press that six were taken to hospitals in nearby Duluth, Minnesota, after the explosion Thursday at the Husky Energy oil refinery.

Some of the cheapest gas prices in the country typically appear in the Rocky Mountain region due to cheaper crude prices and refinery costs — and most of the state's oil is sourced locally or in nearby states, according to the U.S. Energy Administration.

The detonation also caused a chain reaction when a nearby ship, also carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded, setting fires at chemical tanks and oil refineries near the port.

Oil refineries, coal plants, cement kilns and other heavy industries have for years fouled the air with toxic pollution, leaving residents who live nearby with a difficult choice: stay inside or venture out and risk becoming sick from breathing air that's full of pollutants that can cause lung and heart disease, cancer, brain damage — and even death.