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Guardian: It was the dirty secret of Alberta's tar sands – until the black mountain of petroleum coke on the banks of the Detroit River grew to occupy an entire city block three storeys high.
Now it could become a familiar feature at storage yards and water fronts across the country as the oil industry in the US and Canada struggles to deal with a glut of waste from Alberta's tar sands production.
"This is dirtier than the dirtiest fuel," Gary Peters, a Michigan Democrat who represents the area where......
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Detroit’s mountains of petroleum coke are ‘dirtier than the dirtiest fuel’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 7th, 2013
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