Star-Advertiser owner plans $13.2B refinery

A company owned by David Black is submitting a proposal to build a plant in Canada

By Jeremy van Loon
Bloomberg News

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Aug 18, 2012

~~<p>Canadian newspaper publisher David Black wants to build a $13.2 billion refinery in Kitimat, British Columbia, the terminus of Enbridge Inc.'s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.</p>
<p>Kitimat Clean Ltd., owned by Black, is submitting an environmental assessment of a plan to construct a 550,000-barrel-per-day refinery to process bitumen from Alberta's oil sands, Black said in a statement on the company's website. The bitumen would be supplied by the Enbridge pipeline, and the refinery would be one of the world's 10 largest, he said.</p>
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Canadian newspaper publisher David Black wants to build a $13.2 billion refinery in Kitimat, British Columbia, the terminus of Enbridge Inc.'s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.

Kitimat Clean Ltd., owned by Black, is submitting an environmental assessment of a plan to construct a 550,000-barrel-per-day refinery to process bitumen from Alberta's oil sands, Black said in a statement on the company's website. The bitumen would be supplied by the Enbridge pipeline, and the refinery would be one of the world's 10 largest, he said. Login for more...