KCBX Terminals

KCBX Terminals is a petcoke, coal, salt, slag, cement, and clinker processing facility and ocean freight docking and loading services facility[1] owned by Koch Industries[2][3] located in Hegewisch, Chicago.

KCBX Terminals sign
A passing car shows the scale of a petroleum coke pile on Chicago's South Side.
Close-up view of a pet coke pile on Chicago's south side.

Pollution and protests

Residents around the facility have claimed that dust blowing from the facility into their neighborhood[4] is making them sick.[5][6][7][8][9][10] On April 12 and May 8 of 2014 KCBX was found to be in violation of air quality standards.[11] In 2014, the company announced that it would build an enclosure to the land by 2016 at a cost of $120 million.[12][13] After requests for a time extension,[14][15] it was announced in 2015 that the plant would be closed in late 2015.[16] The site currently handles over 11 million tons of petcoke per year.[17]

There have been numerous protests to close the plant.[18]

References
  1. https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=33917015
  2. The Port of Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Resources Support Center, Ports and Waterways Division, Navigation Data Center. 1995-01-01.
  3. "Illinois pollution board rules against new limits on petcoke". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  4. 05, US EPA,REG (11 March 2014). "Petroleum Coke on Chicago's South Side". www.epa.gov. Retrieved 2015-12-31.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. "City of Chicago :: What is Petroleum Coke?". www.cityofchicago.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  6. "Southeast Siders: No End in Sight For Pet Coke". Medill Reports Chicago. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  7. "The Mountains of Black Dust Next Door Were Covering Them in Grime. So They Fought Back".
  8. "KCBX takes the hint on petcoke". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJvtUZkoOw, retrieved 2015-11-25 Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. "How One Community Is Kicking The Koch Brothers' Harmful Black Dust Out Of Their Neighborhood". The Huffington Post. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  11. "KCBX Denies Petcoke Dust Problem Despite Air Quality Violations". Chicago Tonight | WTTW. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  12. "Chicago 'Petcoke' Handler Says It'll Enclose Piles". 17 December 2014.
  13. "KCBX to build $120 million petcoke enclosure". nwitimes.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2015-12-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. "KCBX Terminals requests more time to comply with city petcoke regulations". ABC7 Chicago. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
  16. http://www.wbez.org/news/petcoke-out-chicago-indiana-groups-worry-its-heading-their-way-111595
  17. "Just How Big Are Chicago's Petcoke Piles? They're Enormous". 15 July 2015.
  18. "5 arrested during petcoke protest on Southeast Side".


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