11 Oct '12, 4pm

Obama OKs first new oil refinery in 30 years three weeks before Election Day

One of America’s many gorgeous oil-processing facilities. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar made an announcement yesterday. (If you aren’t hooked by that intro, I don’t know what it would take.) For the first time in over three decades, the United States is poised to permit construction of a new oil refinery . From the Interior Department’s announcement: As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced approval of a ‘land-into-trust’ application from the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Today’s action is one in a series of necessary approvals that will enable the tribes to build the first U.S. refinery in decades, supporting American made energy — including domestic resources from the Bakken Formation — while also creating jobs . … ...

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