What are fugitive emissions
Fugitive emissions are the air pollution emissions that come from an oil refinery that is not under any control; thus the term fugitive. At an oil refinery there are a lot of smoke stacks and a lot of processing going on, and all of that can be regulated. But when you have the miles and miles of pipes that you typically see in an oil refinery, that move the partially processed products from one place to another, there are typically vents that allow gases to escape, or just cracks in the pipe that allow fugitive emissions to take place. These fugitive emissions pollute the air and the ground.
