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Monarch Energy Partners: We're 'Fighting For Families'

Today marks exactly three weeks since Monarch Energy Partners testified at a November 10 Committee of the Whole Senate hearing related to the sale of the defunct HOVENSA refinery. Last week, company representatives were back on St. Croix to drum up support for their mission to become HOVENSA's new buyers. When asked what brought them back to St. Croix so soon after the hearing, Darryl Hardy, one of five Monarch Energy partners, said, "The most important part is that we didn't want to leave. In all honesty, I didn't realize that it was such a socially engaging conflict almost; it's not a normal business transaction." He explained. "It's not just a business transaction," he said. "If you look at this as a business transaction, then you're not looking at the total picture because you can't do this without thinking about what the people have been through in the last two-and-a-half years." And what St. Croix residents have been through since the shuttering...