Correct, at 15,000 BPD it will be one of the 10 smallest refineries in the US.
http://www.mharefinery.com/about-us/
http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/refinerycapacity/table3.pdf
So, how long would it take to get approval of a “real” refinery? It’s been 25 or 30 years since a new “real” refinery has been put up. The existing ones just keep trying to upgrade and produce despite the ever increasing BS from the epa and enviro-wak-a-doodles. Summer blend my butt.
This will be another financial boondoggle and probable environmental disaster as well.
The tribal government is corrupt, inept, capricious, unaccountable.
It’s like the BIA “Cobell” settlement of the past several years and the more recent Pigford reparations case.
The government backs a preferred status group, bends rules, pours money in, then the whole thing blows up.
Fingers are pointed, charges of bigotry and discrimination are levelled—and taxpayers are forced to pay for the failure and subsequent cleanup as well.