Will the state get tougher on Suncor?
are working on a first draft of the facility’s permit for Plants 1 and 3.
Continuous monitoring is one area on which all of the stakeholders at the July 13 public hearings could agree, with many commenters advocating for such monitoring. “We have recently seen a 44 percent decrease in total permanent exceedances and a 66 percent decrease in duration of the exceedances,” Austin continued. Those numbers represent a lower number of violations of the facility’s current permit and violations of shorter duration.
“It is disappointing to see a draft permit that basically allows the facility to pollute even more,” Denver resident Ramesh Bhatt said during one of the July 13 hearings. “It is hard to understand how increasing pollution by 90 tons per year would be protective of a community that's already under enormous pollution stress.”
Over the course of the two July 13 meetings, just three people advocated in favor of the proposed permit. Angie Binder, speaking for the Colorado Petroleum Association, Tom Peterson of the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association, and Dan Haley of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association all said that Suncor is key to their industries and a good local partner.
Under state rules, Suncor is required to renew permits every five years. Suncor filed to renew the permit on Plant 2 in 2010 and Plants 1 and 3 in 2016 before they expired. The APCD was supposed to reply within eighteen months but didn’t act on the Plant 2 permit until 2021 and the Plants 1 and 3 permit until 2022.
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