Demolition begins on shuttered North Pole refinery

Demolition has begun on a shuttered interior Alaska refinery that once produced jet fuel, heating oil, gasoline and asphalt from North Slope oil carried in the trans-Alaska pipeline.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports Flint Hills Resources has started tearing down the North Pole Refinery.
Spokesman Jeff Cook in a prepared statement says no one was interested in buying and operating the refinery and the company decided the prudent step was to demolish it.
The refinery opened in 1977. It stopp