Exxon Pumping Facility
Nondescript building owned by ExxonMobil working on siphoning Greenpoint Oil Spill out of the ground.
Michelle Young(Michelle Young)
On Kingsland Avenue, near thefoot of the Greenpoint Avenue bridge, is an imposing concrete fence line which obscures the presence of a nondescript gray building with a reddish purple stripe on it.
前的标准石油公司the Sone and Fleming refinery, the property is owned by ExxonMobil today and the building is where the Greenpoint Oil spill is slowly being siphoned out of the ground. Sone and Fleming suffered a disastrous fire in 1919 losing some 110 million gallons of oil in the process. ExxonMobil has the technology to pull all of the oil out of the ground in a matter of hours, but the consequences would be devastating. The oil is sitting above the water table and the surface of the land would simply collapse into a sinkhole.
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July 25, 2010
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