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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4042951" data-attributes="member: 5412">Last time I was in Cushing that old refinery has been mothballed and was in pretty bad shape, but the company or owners can't get rid of it. Enviromental issues would require billions of dollars of soil repair and reclamation for that 80 or so acres. It's in the company interest to hold on to the land no matter what it costs in taxes, etc. Same as Ponca. When the refinery was being built in the 20's, some of the storage tanks had earthen floors. Some of the residences around the town around it started getting crude and refined products seeping into basements and driveways. Conoco settled with no admission of guilt, but bought all the homes in that area at premium prices so the residents would move. Two didn't accept the offer, so those two homes stayed until they passed away. All are gone now. In the 80's we used to take our three wheelers on the Arkansas river sand bars to ride, but we never rode south of the Hwy 60 bridge as there was a creek there that came directly from the refinery in the same area as the buy out. Everything metal would immediately corrode and turn to rust shortly after riding down there. Any fish caught would be inedible.Fast forward, all of that has been cleaned up, with the creek dredged to remove pollutants, traps built in the refinery to capture and monitor the water before being released. It was rainwater runoff mixed with the crude and processed crude that was seeping through the ground from those old tanks. Fish are good now and so on.</blockquote>

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