By Denis Cuff [email protected]: 20 Oct 2015
MARTINEZ — The Shell oil refinery has agreed to pay $208,000 in air pollution penalties to settle complaints of 12 violations in 2013, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District announced Monday.
The refinery violations included discharging excessive quantities of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide, a release of hydrogen sulfide from a biotreatment pond, and Shell’s failure to maintain a minimum moisture content in coke, a refinery byproduct, at a handling area, the air district reported.