Suncor seeks permit to increase annual emissions of toxic pollutants by 90 tons
A proposed air permit for Suncor Energy’s Commerce City refinery would allow it to increase annual emissions of toxic pollutants by 90 tons, prompting environmentalists and area residents to urge Colorado’s health department to take the application back to the drawing board.
But environmentalists and people who live and work near the massive Suncor complex said the company already produces too much pollution that degrades Denver’s air quality and sickens people, many of whom are low-income and Black, Latino and Native American. “These violations are not rare,” he said. “In the case of some operations, there are pollution exceedances reported in every reporting period. Given this context, it is disappointing to see a draft permit that basically allows the facility to pollute even more.”
The existing air permit for those plants expired four years ago, and the state failed to send the application for renewal to the EPA on time. That means Suncor continues operating Plants 1 and 3 on an old permit, which originally was granted in 2004 and revised in 2018. In March, the EPA kicked that application back to the state for revision, so Suncor continues to operate on outdated air pollution permits for all three plants.
The company also completed a pipeline between the refinery and a Platteville crude oil terminal in 2020 that reduced by 150 the number of semitrailers driving onto the property each day, he said.
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