Sulfur and an acid waste land called Wynuum

Imagine dear friends
That a huge diesel engine was going to be built in Wynnum which would be the same size as all of the diesel engines in Queensland. Imagine then the pollution that would be emitted into the air we breathe ?? Well thats happening as we speak.

Caltex refinery are removing the sulfur from their diesel fuel but were are they putting it ??
Well they are pumping it across Wynnum.


Look at this ??

http://www.nrdc.org/air/transportation/psulfur.asp

In cities around the world, people suffer from unnecessary asthma, cancer and other health ailments that are linked with the pollution that comes from the world's growing vehicle population. Cleaning up the world's fuel supplies is a critical step towards reversing this situation -- not only do contaminants like lead in gasoline and sulfur in diesel fuel lead to air pollution that impairs health, but they are barriers to catalytic converters, particulate " traps" and other emission control technologies that can remove most of the pollution that comes from today's vehicles.

This will have serious health impacts unless steps are taken to clean up diesel fuel and the vehicles that use it, because the emissions from diesel vehicles have been linked with a wide range of health impacts that include increased asthma, lung disease, heart disease, cancer and even premature death -- plus environmental impacts like smog, acid rain and nutrient pollution in waterways, as well as crop and forest damage. Like lead, the sulfur in diesel fuel has direct health impacts, because of its role in the formation in sulfate-based particulate matter.

For each ton of crude they produce they also pump out upto 600g of sulfur oxide........ yuk
Sulfur oxides 0.2-0.6 kg/ton of crude