Anti-oil groups and environmental activists
were overjoyed recently with the news that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (
EPA) issued a
Notice of Violation
to the Bakersfield Crude Terminal and its owners/operators for
violating the Clean Air Act. EPA said that the Taft, CA, facility, which
was designed to receive crude oil by rail, had obtained invalid
Authorities to Construct and Permits to Operate from the San Joaquin
Valley Air Pollution Control District (
APCD).
Additionally, EPA said that emission offsets and Best Available Control
technology were not required by the APCD, blasting the local agency for
an inadequate and incorrect permit review/issuance process.
However,
in an e-mailed response today to an inquiry
from Examiner.com, an APCD representative strongly disputed EPA's
charges, stating that EPA did not properly investigate the facts and nor
did it even contact the APCD to discuss its analysis of the project
before issuing the NOV.
Read more at the link below:
http://www.examiner.com/article/epa-issues-nov-for-oil-terminal-permits-blasting-the-sjvapcd-the-process
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