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April 26, 2011

Texas City Residents Ordered To Stay Inside After Oil Refineries Lose Power 
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Residents of Texas City, Texas have been ordered to stay inside their
homes after oil refineries run by BP and Marathon Oil as well as a Dow
Chemical plant lost power last night. Local residents were ordered
inside to avoid breathing smoke from the refinery's flares. A small fire
broke out at the BP refinery after the power outage but workers at the
facility were able to extinguish it. No injuries were reported. In 2005
an explosion at the Texas City BP refinery killed 15 workers. Last year
BP allowed 538,000 pounds of chemicals to escape from the refinery
without telling local residents.



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