POLLUTION LEGACY: State refinery ‘renaissance’ plan raises fresh questions over pollution, health and taxpayer risk

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News that the country’s largest fuel refinery is to be reopened – and expanded considerably – has stirred Durban fence-line communities who fear a resumption of noxious petrochemical fumes seeping in to their homes and lungs.

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