Swedish Refinery: A Duty to Protect The oil renery on Sweden’s Baltic Coast at Nynäshamn, 30 minutes from Stockholm, has been rening crude oil since 1928. Owned by Nynas AB, the renery is the only one in the world with a wood- burning power station. The wood biomass is carbon neutral and the local supply is ample, helping the renery to reduce CO2 emissions in the region by 100,000 tons per year. Surplus heat is distributed to the local network, providing energy to heat almost 2,000 homes. In keeping with the company’s environmentally responsible ethos, the plant has its own wastewater treatment plant to process water used during the rening and storage of the oil products at the installation. In 2012, the decision was taken to rebuild the waste treatment plant to improve the levels of

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