The Windsor Star reports the company that garnered international attention by storing petroleum coke along the Detroit River has applied to again put massive black mounds at the same location.
Reporter Dave Battagello writes Detroit Bulk Storage has filed an appeal against the City of Detroit’s ruling last summer which rejected the company’s permit application to store petcoke on a riverfront industrial site at 1155 Rosa Parks Blvd. just east of the Ambassador Bridge. The piles have been gone since late summer.
The company stored petcoke for nearly a year at the site without a permit, and the piles and their grimy residue coated homes and cars on both sides of the Detroit River, sparking numerous complaints and raising health concerns.
Petroleum coke, called petcoke for short, is a byproduct of refining done at a Marathon Petroleum Corp. refinery in Detroit.
The piles last summer were owned by Koch Carbon and came from the Marathon Detroit Refinery. Detroit Bulk Storage was storing the pet coke on property owned by billionaire and Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun and leased to Norfolk Southern railroad, the Free Press reported.
The hearing for Detroit Bulk Storage has been scheduled by Detroit’s board of zoning appeals for 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 11.
Detroit Bulk Storage vice-president Noel Frye — whose name is listed on the appeal — did not respond to a message left by The Star on Monday.
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