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Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “This permit gives Suncor an extraordinarily long time to comply with permit limits. The company won’t have to meet its PFAS limits for three years. For several other pollutants, Suncor will get more than six years to comply. That timeline is problematic because this is only a five-year permit.…

State provided little time for intervening groups to review key documents before approving settlement

A separate enforcement action announced today penalizes Suncor for repeated air pollution violations

Community and conservation groups filed a response to the recently-announced Suncor Energy fenceline monitoring settlement agreement, expressing frustration and concern over the plan approved by the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division.

Colorado was provided 90 days to revise Suncor’s Title V permit after EPA’s objection

From Editorial Board of The Denver Post

La intervención busca proteger tanto el plan de monitoreo reforzado para Suncor, como la propia Ley de Monitoreo de Alambrado

Intervention seeks to protect Suncor's strengthened monitoring plan and Fenceline Monitoring Law itself

Suncor filed a suit against the state to block fenceline monitoring requirements for its refinery, but community and environmental groups quickly moved to intervene and ensure they remain in place

Division sent compliance advisory to Suncor for benzene and solids exceedances

Petition argues that Suncor has shown it is incapable of consistently complying with emission limits

La petición argumenta que Suncor ha demostrado que es incapaz de cumplir consistentemente con los límites de emisión

Groups call for CDPHE to issue strongest possible water discharge permit for refinery

Draft permit fails to fully scrutinize recent modifications to Suncor's West Plant

Caitlin Miller, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Regional Office: “Suncor is still unable to reliably control its discharges. Science has come a long way on PFAS just in a short amount of time. And we know that PFAS are toxic at significantly lower levels.”

El borrador del permiso no hace un escrutinio exhaustivo frente a las recientes modificaciones de la planta de Suncor

Ian Coghill, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “In our comments, we ask the Division, first and foremost, to deny the permit because Suncor has shown that it cannot comply with its emissions limits and modeling shows that Suncor is violating National Ambient Air Quality Standards for both nitrous oxides and sulfur dioxide.”

Colorado’s Water Quality Control Division recently sent a compliance advisory to Suncor Energy for three benzene and two total suspended solids exceedances at the company’s Commerce City refinery between January and April of this year.