BP = Bad People
(from the wilco site)
British Petroleum just made a $3.8 billion expansion of their oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana. After pouring billions of dollars into expanding the aging plant, they claim they don't have room to expand the water treatment facility, so instead have asked the EPA to let them dump 1,500 more pounds of amonia and 5,000 more pounds of toxic sludge into Lake Michigan. Read the story from the Chicago Tribune here.
Below is a link to send a message to BP's CEO Tony Hayward and EPA Region 5 Administrator Mary Gade. To sign the petition, please click here.
Posted by
enealio on August 13, 2007 12:08 PM | Permalink
Comments
Every day. 1,584 pounds of amonia and 4,925 pounds of suspended solids. Every day.
Posted by: adam | August 13, 2007 02:40 PM
so...if the 1.5K pounds of coffee that I roasted today were ammonia...
Posted by: zra... | August 13, 2007 06:39 PM
seriously? this makes me sick to my stomach.
Posted by: zra... | August 13, 2007 06:40 PM
They might not have room to expand the treatment facility but they've already stated that they are spending $150 million on improving the capacity of the treatment facility that they have.
August 23rd, BP announced that they will NOT be making use of the increased dumping limits that were given to them by permit.
Sure seems convenient that your article left those facts out.
Posted by: TheGathering | October 30, 2007 04:28 PM
that's because the article i posted was written on aug 1st.
Posted by: king neal | October 30, 2007 05:23 PM
It says August 13th on the time stamp.
The fact that they are spending $150 million to upgrade the facility was stated in July and yet it was still not included.
Posted by: TheGathering | October 30, 2007 11:09 PM
The blog you posted, that is.
Posted by: TheGathering | October 30, 2007 11:11 PM