Thursday, February 14, 2013
After searching since early yesterday, West Deptford police pinpoint the smell to gas line purging at Eagle Point.
After being plagued by an elusive smell all day yesterday, West Deptford Emergency Management Coordinator Joseph Gill said that the source of the odor has been identified. While the odor has a gas smell to it, it wasn't a gas leak, Gill said. The smell stemmed from Sunoco purging gas lines at the Eagle Point Refinery as part of the demolishing work currently taking place. Sunoco will continue to purge the gas lines for the next few days, according to Gill, and during that time the odor will most likely shift from area to area depending on the wind patterns. Even with the odor still hanging in the air, Gill reiterated there is no danger to West Deptford residents or residents in neighboring towns. “That odor tends to linger,” said Gill. “…
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
The state Senate president accuses West Deptford officials of engaging in a "quid pro quo" for agreeing to settle tax appeals filed by the owners of Eagle Point refinery.
In the latest blow in the bitter battle between Republicans and Democrats in West Deptford, state Sen. Stephen M. Sweeney is suing his hometown government over a tax-appeals settlement he contends was illegal. Sweeney, a Democrat, filed the lawsuit in state Superior Court in Woodbury on Oct. 25. The complaint names the township, Mayor Raymond Chintall, the township committee and the owners of Eagle Point refinery as defendants. The lawsuit alleges that the Republican-controlled township made a $13.1 million settlement payment earlier this year to resolve years of tax appeals filed by Sunoco, owner of the shuttered refinery (the initial settlement amount was $15 million.) The township made a separate $18.5 million payment to Coastal, the …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
West Deptford's mayor and township solicitor come out strongly against state Sen. Stephen Sweeney's allegations that the Eagle Point refinery settlement is illegal.
Allegations by state Senate President Stephen Sweeney that West Deptford’s Sunoco settlement runs afoul of the law hold no water, township officials say. Sweeney released a letter Thursday addressed to both the state attorney general’s office and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection calling for both departments to investigate whether West Deptford violated a state law when reimbursing $13.1 million in tax refunds to Sunoco. Sweeney alleged that, according to the law, the township was obligated to escrow the money with the DEP to ensure environmental remediation. Giving the money directly to Sunoco violates the state law, he said. But West Deptford Mayor Raymond Chintall called Sweeney’s move politically motivated. “This is…
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
With fire trucks the center of much political debate, West Deptford receives pledge from Sunoco.
After heated arguments at the Sept. 20 town committee meeting, it looks as if West Deptford fire departments will get new fire trucks after all. On Thursday, Sept. 27 the Sunoco Foundation pledged to donate a total of $750,000 toward the purchase on new fire trucks for the township. The money will come as two payments of $375,000 within a year of each other. The money will go to both the Verga and Colonial Manor fire companies and will be used to purchase new fire engines and fire rescue engines. “We are committed to providing first-rate service to our community, and this money will provide us with newer and up to date fire apparatus to meet that commitment, which will benefit all the residents of our township,” said Chief Kevin Nordaby…
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Friday, July 13, 2012
The township committee formally authorized selling up to $33 million in bonds to cover settlement deals with Sunoco and El Paso on the Eagle Point refinery complex.
A week after a bipartisan effort saw the unanimous approval of settlements with Sunoco and El Paso on disputed property taxes at the Eagle Point refinery complex, the West Deptford committee was back at work on the issue, laying the groundwork for the bond sale in the coming months. The committee unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the bond sale, which could add up to $33 million to the township’s debt load to pay off the two deals, which total $31.4 million. The township’s currently in the 20-day period of limitation, the window where the bond ordinance can be challenged, and Mayor Ray Chintall said given the township’s obligation to move relatively quickly to a bond sale after that window closes, it made sense to pass the …
Friday, July 6, 2012
A series of phone calls with Sunoco officials ended any question of whether the settlements would pass on a final vote.
Twenty-four years’ worth of battles over the value of the Eagle Point refinery ended with a single phone call Thursday evening. An hour and a half before the West Deptford township committee meeting was scheduled to begin, Committeewoman Denice DiCarlo got the call she had been waiting for: Sunoco officials were making some late concessions to the township, agreeing to an $800,000 cut from their property tax refund. It was the movement she’d wanted, and, along with a $200,000 concession from El Paso, the refinery’s former owners, was enough to shift DiCarlo from a no vote to a yes, in what became a unanimous vote to seal the deal by approving a bond ordinance to borrow up to $33 million to pay off the two companies and end the longstanding…
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Late negotiations cut $1 million off the settlement to end a longstanding dispute over the value of the Eagle Point refinery complex.
In a surprise move, the West Deptford township committee announced a last-minute change Thursday night to settlements with Sunoco and El Paso to end a decades-long dispute on the value of the Eagle Point refinery complex, slashing a million dollars off the total, which then passed muster with the entire township committee in a 5-0 vote. Late negotiations with the two companies—the Sunoco piece was still in talks an hour before Thursday night’s meeting—resulted in the reductions, which Mayor Ray Chintall said came about as part of a bipartisan effort. Sunoco agreed to take $800,000 less and El Paso reduced its share by $200,000 in the settlement, which brings to a close 24 years of disputed taxes with a $31.4 million deal. This story is …
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
The West Deptford committee will hold a final vote on $33 million in bonds to fund tax settlements on the Eagle Point refinery complex.
Nearly six months after a party-line vote set in motion deals to settle more than two decades’ worth of disputed property taxes on the Eagle Point refinery complex, D-Day is a little more than 48 hours away. Just two days remain until the West Deptford township committee takes up the public hearing and final vote on a $33 million bond ordinance to fund deals with Sunoco and El Paso that would bring to a close the long battle over the sprawling property’s value. That is, if a fourth vote can be found. While the 3-2 Republican majority on the township committee was enough to shepherd the settlements from their initial approval to a final OK from the state, that simple majority isn’t enough to push through the bond ordinance. For that, the …
Monday, June 18, 2012
The two companies can now send and receive refined petroleum products over a linked line at the refinery complex.
Sunoco Logistics' Eagle Point storage complex is now hooked into the Colonial Pipeline system, giving the two companies the ability to send and receive refined products, according to a recent Reuters report. The Eagle Point tank farm, which is being expanded from three million barrels of storage up to 5 million barrels, will be able to accept products shipped from the Colonial Pipeline system, which stretches from Texas up into the Northeast, company officials told Reuters. It will also allow the reverse, giving Sunoco Logistics the opportunity to tap into markets served by Colonial. The announcement comes after Colonial finished a test on what it designates as Line 37—a six-mile stretch that runs across West Deptford, from Colonial’s tank…
Thursday, June 14, 2012
The Local Finance Board unanimously approved West Deptford's application Wednesday.
A pair of settlements that would end more than two decades’ worth of property tax disputes over the Eagle Point refinery complex cleared the penultimate hurdle Wednesday, when the state signed off on $33 million in tax refunding bonds proposed by West Deptford officials. The Local Finance Board (LFB) unanimously approved the proposal, which made it on to the agenda a month after the board declined to hear the bonds. While West Deptford’s bond counsel ended up meeting with LFB staff in the interim, Mayor Ray Chintall said the proposal remained the same as it was a month ago. West Deptford’s bonds, which pay off a total of $32.4 million to Sunoco and Coastal/El Paso, were one of 32 items on Wednesday’s agenda, and it didn’t take long for the…
Lauren Burgoon
12:38 pm on Monday, November 19, 2012
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