Around 18-hundred showed up last night at the Delaware city Fire Company Fire Hall for PBF Energy’s request for an air quality permit for its nearby refinery.
Many residents and environmentalists expressed concern about the recent emissions of sulfur dioxide that have been released into the air from the facility.
Amy Roe, conservation chair of the Delaware Chapter of the Sierra Club said the terms of the permit were inadequate and asked for more specific penalties and standards for air quality violations.
Roe added that her organization was not asking that the plant be shutdown.
Many of the 12-hundred workers at the plant showed up for the hearing held by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
And company officials said that environmental groups have misled the public around the refinery with plant manager Herman Seedorf calling critics of the plant activists who said “speak loudly but not always factually.”
(See: Wilmington News Journal)
