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| Murphy Oil, Inc. |
I found this article after watching the movie in Monday's class. This is Murphy Oil, the refinery located in Superior, WI. The article talks about how the owners of Murphy are wanting to expand the refinery in order to have more capacity. The reason we have been seeing some of the highest gas prices in the country in the Midwest is because we don't have enough refining capacity in this region. Their main points were that by expanding they can increase the worth of the city, comparing the 6.2 billion dollar investment to the total worth of Superior currently at 1.5 billion we can see just how much money we could bring to our community. This would create roughly 400 new jobs however there are a few important reasons the company is hesitant to expand. First, many residents are worried about the additional pollution. Also, talk of moving to smarter more efficient fuels to run the economy have been being talked about for the past few years.
This made me really start to think of how having this refinery so close to our homes could possibly be contaminating our air and talk of expansion could make the problem worse. The article also mentioned how high prices of gas may be a good thing, to kind of give people a push to move toward safer cleaner fuels. If people started realizing how much were paying for gas is getting ridiculous we might start switching to smarter alternatives.
This could be a good or bad thing. Good thing because it will create jobs and that is a huge concern in the up coming elections. This is a bad thing because of all the pollution.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I think we need to make a push to make more jobs for more eco-friendly energy. If we keep using the ways we use now obviously things are never going to workout for our environment.
ReplyDeleteI think that creating jobs would be good, but is good only short-term. Just because it creates jobs doesn't mean it is the right thing to do. Creating more pollutants and contamination will not make the future lives around this region any better.
ReplyDeleteThe 'creating jobs' aspect is terrific, however, watching the documentary on Monday I would be very uncomfortable knowing that they probably would not regulate the plant and I feel the Superior and even Duluth region would begin to have a decrease in health and an increase in illnesses.
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