Petroleum, Refineries, and the Future Main Menu Appreciating Oil Refinery Science By Shailesh Thapa Exploring Pollution and the Environmental Impacts Associated with Petroleum Refining By Bailey Klause Disaster Risks and What Refineries Can do to Best Prepare By Nick Steinhofer The (In)visible Violence of Petroleum Refineries By Klara Beinhorn Global Environmental Justice: Holding Oil Refineries Responsible By Sam Hermann Health, Petroleum Refineries, and the Future By: Jake Rames Contributors Oil Boom Inquiry 2017

Environmental Injustice of Petroleum Refineries

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Petroleum refineries are causing environmental injustice due to the location in which they are placed. The neighborhoods in which refineries reside generally are those of high minority and/or low-income populations causing a disproportionate effect of the environmental implications. Author of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital, Matthew T. Huber describes refineries as “expansive industrial geographies that not only consume vast amounts of space, energy, and water but also contain risks of spills, fires, and explosions” (68). The United States oil refinery capacity is greater than any other country. The next country behind the U.S. is China with about one third capacity of the U.S. (70). The inequality of who absorbs the impact of refineries leads to environmental injustice. As consumers of oil, society needs to recognize the unequal distribution of implications. 


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  1. The (In)visible Violence of Petroleum Refineries Klara Beinhorn

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  1. Environmental Impact
  2. Health Implicatons
  3. Location Implications of Refineries
  4. Environmental Racism

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