Shipments of crude oil have been sent from Delaware City Refinery to third-party destinations in 2014.
That admission comes from the facility’s owner PBF Energy after claiming in 2013 that it had only sent one shipment to a destination in New Jersey which was authorized by the Delaware Department Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that the state decided not to issue a sanction against PBF for a shipment of crude oil to a Philadelphia refinery that same year.
After the paper’s story the Delaware Department of Justice released a letter from the PBF admitting that it made at least two shipments involving the use of barges.
The News Journal notes that environmentalists have criticized the Markell administration for – what they say – is the dismantling the state’s landmark environmental zoning law.