Tag: St. Croix Environmental Association (SEA)

Environmentalists Want EPA’s Emergency Response Team To Investigate Limetree Bay Refinery

CHRISTIANSTED — Responding to a series of refinery mishaps that has exposed St. Croix residents to nauseating fumes for a period of hours to days, a coalition of environmental advocacy organizations has asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to send an emergency response team to Limetree Bay to find out what the community […]

EPA, DPNR Officials Launch Limetree Bay Probe After 2nd St. Croix Refinery Accident

CHRISTIANSTED — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Virgin Islands officials are investigating a second accident at a controversial refinery in St. Croix after it emitted noxious fumes that prompted some schools to close on Friday. The release of sulfuric gases from the facility, which caused nausea and eye irritation in some residents and comes […]

MAIN OFFENDER! Limetree Bay Under Fire From Feds Over Pollution Concerns

CHRISTIANSTED — The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency modifying its 2011 consent decree with HOVENSA, the prior owner of St. Croix’s troubled oil refinery, now owned by Limetree Bay Ventures and ArcLight Capital. The motion requires Limetree to assume some of the operating requirements HOVENSA agreed […]

Top Execs Jumping Ship From Troubled Limetree Bay Refinery On St. Croix: Letter

CHRISTIANSTED — The finance chief and two other top executives at Limetree Bay Ventures, operator of a long-stalled local oil refinery, are stepping down, according to an internal letter reviewed by Reuters. The 200,000-barrel-per-day refinery in St. Croix recently halted processing after “a mishap,” according to people familiar with the matter. It has run more […]

EPA Pulls Permit For Limetree Bay Refinery Over ‘Environmental Justice’ Concerns

CHRISTIANSTED — Amid concerns raised by and appeals filed by non-governmental organizations, members of the community and the company itself, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn its Clean Air Act “plantwide applicability limit” (PAL) permit for the Limetree Bay Terminals and Limetree Bay Refining facility on St. Croix originally issued by EPA on December […]

Audubon’s 2019 Christmas Bird Count Results For St. Croix Announced By SEA

CHRISTIANSTED — This year’s Christmas Bird Count saw two surprise visitors to St. Croix. Three never seen before scarlet ibises took up early winter residence along the far north edge of Southgate Pond and a single white-eyed vireo was spotted along Bethlehem Work Road just east of the National Guard Amory. This species of vireo […]