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Planning Board Approves Walnut Hill Crude Oil Transfer Station
May 15, 2012
The Escambia County Planning Board gave its blessings Monday to a rezoning request for property in Walnut Hill where an energy company proposes to build a crude oil transfer station that could mean about 30 new high paying jobs.
Genesis Rail Systems, LLC wants to build the facility on 20 acres off Corley Road, near Arthur Brown Road. The property was chosen because it is at the intersection of an existing crude oil pipeline and the Alabama & Gulf Coast Railway.
The Planning Board gave the go-ahead to rezone the property from “village agricultural” to “general industrial”, despite original findings that the plan was not consistent with the Escambia County Comprehensive Plan and the Land Development Code.
The Planning Board decision will go to the full Escambia County Commission on Thursday. The BOCC will review the decision and will either adopt, modify or overturn the Planning Board’s recommendation on the rezoning request.
If the facility is constructed, crude oil will be shipped from the north by rail, offloaded in a large storage tank and then injected into an existing crude oil pipeline.
NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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One Response to “Planning Board Approves Walnut Hill Crude Oil Transfer Station”
whats to think about, jobs for the community, jobs for construction worker, maybe be at home working for a few months…..