The Windsor Star reports Windsorites angered by piles of petroleum coke along the U.S. banks of the Detroit River staged an environmental protest Saturday across from the large waterfront blemish they call “disgusting.”
Members of Windsor On Watch (WOW) and The Council of Canadians, along with local residents, joined at noon at Assumption Park in hopes to bring awareness to the large mounds of crude oil byproduct that has been piling on the east and western banks of the Ambassador Bridge.
“We’re right here, we’re watching and we’re going to give them a hard time until they gives us some answers,” protest organizer, Pat Noonan, said while facing a mound of petroleum coke four storeys high and a couple of hundred metres in length.
Noonan and a crowd of about 40 protestors were outraged when dozens of trucks could be seen unloading more petroleum coke, also referred to as petcoke, on the west side of the bridge Friday. Earlier this week, a company with Windsor connections was heavily involved in assembling a separate pile of petcoke east of the bridge, metres from the river’s edge.
