Hardly.
You don't pull a project of this size and scope out of your a$$ and say "build it".
It's been in the works for years.
ESPECIALLY in getting EPA permiting.
EPA permitting, indeed.
I have often wondered how much technology since the sixties or seventies may have changed the refining business (since I recall our last major one was built in the mid-seventies?) or how much of it is still pretty much the same in respects, or how much productivity or reliability has been improved.
Or how much technology has allowed the industry to either meet or get around the walls placed by the environmentalists.