Posted on 08/23/2007 8:05:05 PM PDT by flowerplough
Oil company BP American says it will not immediately increase the amount of pollution it dumps into Lake Michigan from its refinery in Whiting, Ind., reversing earlier comments.
The announcement follows weeks of uproar by environmentalists and politicians who were upset that Indiana's environmental officials approved the company's plan to dump 54 percent more ammonia into Lake Michigan.
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Obama is singing the praises of the political pressure to halt the BP project and Durbin is ticked because there will be a probable loss of jobs in the Chicago area. Studies have shown that the increase in discharge matter by BP into Lake Michigan was well below EPA guidelines.
Cynics aren’t sure how serious BP was with its expansion plans. They probably expected to get shut down by environmentalists, activists, and local political fools, all the while planning to use “Well, we tried...” as an excuse for lack-of-refinery-capacity gas prices.
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