After facing a series of suspensions due to non-compliance with environmental regulations, the Limetree Bay refinery in St. Croix has announced on Monday that it is seeking bankruptcy. An article on Reuters reported that the "lenders hesitated on putting new cash into a project dogged by
After being suspended last month for facing a series of serious complaints about polluted air and water supply in the nearby community, Limetree Bay refinery must now meet the requirement of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to install air monitors in the island. In a report
Three St. Croix schools in the U.S. Virgin Islands sent their students home on Thursday following a "noxious" odor from the island's major oil refinery that was affecting the air quality on the campuses. This was the second time in a month that the schools
Reopening refineries is a challenge St. Croix’s Limetree Bay refinery may lose its main supplier of crude, the British multinational oil and gas company BP, if it will not be able to continue operations by December, according to two Reuters sources. In the news wire's exclusive report,
