The heavy crude processing is a maintenance cost sink.
Reverting to processing local oil is both cheaper equipment wise (removing the heavy crude vessels and selling them) and cheaper bc you don't pay to pipe oil with the viscosity of sludge across the continent.
Fed quotas are the reason for the current config, configuration, economics.
> The clusters are poor and poor health, but have no statistical significance to pollution levels
Yeah, because the rich don’t want a refinery in their nice neighborhood. The second order effect being that the cancer is exported to wherever the refinery lands.
