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I bought a Yaoi book today, my first. An authentic, read-it-right-to-left-and-back-to-front yaoi. ( rambling about my reluctance re: Yaoi )
Latest Great Lakes outrage: British Petroleum's refinery in Whiting, Indiana has been given permission (WITHOUT ANY INPUT FROM THE CITY OF CHICAGO OR STATE OF ILLINOIS!) by Indiana officials to increase it's pollution of Lake Michigan. Not that this comes as any surprise. I mean, people died in explosions at a BP refinery in Texas and then BP dumped over 200,000 gallons of crude through a broken pipeline in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska that they failed to maintain or fix in a timely fashion. And that's just the last couple/few years. God knows how much they've covered up.
But BP has been given permission to "release 54 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more sludge into Lake Michigan each day." ... "The company will now be allowed to dump an average of 1,584 pounds of ammonia and 4,925 pounds of sludge into Lake Michigan every day. The additional sludge is the maximum allowed under federal guidelines." ("BP gets break on dumping in lake; Refinery expansion entices Indiana," By Michael Hawthorne, July 15, 2007 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-pollute_15jul15,1,647384.story)
I'm wondering how well this would go over with, oh, say, Londoners, if it were being done to the Thames. Better yet, I wonder how well BP would like it if 1,500+ lbs. of ammonia and nearly 5,000 lbs of sludge were dumped on their corporate headquarters in London? Not much, I'd guess. But, imagine: that's how much would have to be dumped on their offices every day to equal their new daily limit for dumping in Lake Michigan.
Please feel free to voice your outrage
( using links under the cut or by pilfering text from my ultra-bitchy email to BP )
Latest Great Lakes outrage: British Petroleum's refinery in Whiting, Indiana has been given permission (WITHOUT ANY INPUT FROM THE CITY OF CHICAGO OR STATE OF ILLINOIS!) by Indiana officials to increase it's pollution of Lake Michigan. Not that this comes as any surprise. I mean, people died in explosions at a BP refinery in Texas and then BP dumped over 200,000 gallons of crude through a broken pipeline in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska that they failed to maintain or fix in a timely fashion. And that's just the last couple/few years. God knows how much they've covered up.
But BP has been given permission to "release 54 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more sludge into Lake Michigan each day." ... "The company will now be allowed to dump an average of 1,584 pounds of ammonia and 4,925 pounds of sludge into Lake Michigan every day. The additional sludge is the maximum allowed under federal guidelines." ("BP gets break on dumping in lake; Refinery expansion entices Indiana," By Michael Hawthorne, July 15, 2007 (http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-pollute_15jul15,1,647384.story)
I'm wondering how well this would go over with, oh, say, Londoners, if it were being done to the Thames. Better yet, I wonder how well BP would like it if 1,500+ lbs. of ammonia and nearly 5,000 lbs of sludge were dumped on their corporate headquarters in London? Not much, I'd guess. But, imagine: that's how much would have to be dumped on their offices every day to equal their new daily limit for dumping in Lake Michigan.
Please feel free to voice your outrage
( using links under the cut or by pilfering text from my ultra-bitchy email to BP )