We were talking refineries on our live-stream Internet broadcast, ‘Live From the Newsroom.’
Our thanks for County Councilman John McBlain and Dave White for joining us on the show. If you misssed it, you can catch the replay here.
And we got a little news, which is always a nice byproduct of doing a live, current affairs program.
McBlain and White updated us on the county’s efforts to do a study of potential uses for the Sunoco refinery in Marcus Hook.
Of the three endangered refineries – including the Sunoco refinery in South Philly and the ConocoPhillips plant in Trainer – it is Marcus Hook that seems to have the gloomiest future.
Michael O’Neill and his Preferred Sands group is looking at the South Philly refinery, along with United Refining out of Pittsburgh. Delta Air Lines is showing interest in the Conoco site for use as a petroleum production facility.
But there seems to be no such interest in the iconic Hook refinery.
The councilmen indicated that Sunoco has now finished its process and still has no potential suitor.
The county is spending $100,000 on a study for potential uses for the site. They now have two potential bidders for the study. They will award it to one of them on April 28 and hope to have the study in hand by the end of May. They will ask for a 60-day turnaround from the firm doing the study.
And the county was rocked with a bit more bad economic news yesterday, from one of its largest employers.
Crozer-Keystone Health Systems, which runs the five hospitals in the Crozer system, announced it is looking to cut 325 jobs. They are hoping to achieve the number through early retirements and other measures to minimize the number of layoffs.
It doesn’t get any easier in this economy.
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