Refinery owner loses water cleanup legal challenge

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/energy/article/Refinery-owner-loses-water-cleanup-legal-challenge-5633031.php

Refinery owner loses water cleanup legal challenge
July 19, 2014 : Updated: July 19, 2014 3:44pm

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A North Pole refinery owner has lost its latest challenge in a long-running attempt to get a petroleum company to pay for groundwater contamination that contributed to the refinery's closure.

Flint Hills Resources Alaska cannot pursue damages against the former owner of its North Pole refinery, Williams Alaska Petroleum, a Superior Court judge has ruled.

In November 2013, Judge Michael P. McConahy determined that the statute of limitations had expired by the time Flint Hills had filed its lawsuit. He made the same ruling this month.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports (http://bit.ly/1u3lygM ) that the company wants to pursue damages against Williams for spilling the industrial chemical sulfolane at the site before Flint Hills purchased the refinery in 2004.

[WhiteTara]

1. Too bad they didn't do due diligence. nt