KCBX Terminals

KCBX Terminals sign
A passing car shows the scale of a petroleum coke pile on Chicago's South Side.
Close-up view of a pet coke pile on Chicago's south side.

KCBX Terminals is a petcoke, coal, salt, slag, cement, and clinker processing facility and ocean freight docking and loading services facility[1] owned by Koch Industries[2][3] located in Hegewisch, Chicago.

Pollution and protests

Residents around the facility have claimed that dust blowing from the facility into their neighborhood[4] is making them sick.[5][6][7][8][9][10] On April 12 and May 8 of 2014 KCBX was found to be in violation of air quality standards.[11] In 2014, the company announced that it would build an enclosure to the land by 2016 at a cost of $120 million.[12][13] After requests for a time extension,[14][15] it was announced in 2015 that the plant would be closed in late 2015.[16] The site currently handles over 11 million tons of petcoke per year.[17]

There have been numerous protests to close the plant.[18]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=33917015
  2. ↑ The Port of Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Resources Support Center, Ports and Waterways Division, Navigation Data Center. 1995-01-01.
  3. ↑ "Illinois pollution board rules against new limits on petcoke". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  4. ↑ 05, US EPA,REG. "Petroleum Coke on Chicago's South Side". www.epa.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  5. ↑ "City of Chicago :: What is Petroleum Coke?". www.cityofchicago.org. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  6. ↑ "Southeast Siders: No End in Sight For Pet Coke". Medill Reports Chicago. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  7. ↑ http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2015/KCBX-pet-coke/
  8. ↑ "KCBX takes the hint on petcoke". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJvtUZkoOw, retrieved 2015-11-25 Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ↑ "How One Community Is Kicking The Koch Brothers' Harmful Black Dust Out Of Their Neighborhood". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  11. ↑ "KCBX Denies Petcoke Dust Problem Despite Air Quality Violations". Chicago Tonight | WTTW. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  12. ↑ http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/17/chicago-petcoke-handler-says-itll-enclose-piles/
  13. ↑ "KCBX to build $120 million petcoke enclosure". nwitimes.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  14. ↑ http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/372621/emanuel-denies-kcbx-request-time-build-petcoke-storage-facilities
  15. ↑ "KCBX Terminals requests more time to comply with city petcoke regulations". ABC7 Chicago. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  16. ↑ http://www.wbez.org/news/petcoke-out-chicago-indiana-groups-worry-its-heading-their-way-111595
  17. ↑ http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2015/07/15/petcoke-piles-map.php
  18. ↑ http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-5-arrested-during-petcoke-protest-on-far-south-side-20151116-story.html


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