Massive Toxic Black Cloud, Brought To You By The Koch Bros, Blows Over Detroit Friday, August 2, 2013 10:35 [1]
Common Dreams
by Abby Zimet

MInd-boggling video of a billowing, high-carbon, high-sulfur cloud [3]from the mountain of petroleum coke – waste from Canadian tar sands [4]shipped from Alberta to Detroit, and the dirtiest potential energy source ever – illegally stored [5]by the Koch Brothers along the Detroit River. Produced by Marathon Refinery but owned by Koch Carbon, the pet-coke piles have for months been producing “fugitive dust” [6]- ie: thick black crud – that blankets the homes of outraged residents and lawmakers; analysis shows the dust contains elevated levels of lead, sulfur, zinc and the likely carcinogenic vanadium [7].