Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

Mountain of Petroleum Coke From Oil Sands Rises in Detroit

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Refining Canada’s petroleum-soaked oil sands produces petroleum coke, and the question of what to do with it has found at least one answer in Detroit, where a large coke pile covers an entire city...

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