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Notice that my blogging is very scarce as I have devoted most of my energy to building Promet. However this article in the Trib got my blood boiling and my old collage ideals bubbled to the point of action.

Here is the excerpt from the Chicago Tribune “BP gets break on dumping in lake” by Michael Hawthorne

The massive BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., is planning to dump significantly more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan, running counter to years of efforts to clean up the Great Lakes… Under BP’s new state water permit, the refinery — already one of the largest polluters along the Great Lakes — can release 54 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more sludge into Lake Michigan each day. Ammonia promotes algae blooms that can kill fish, while sludge is full of concentrated heavy metals.

Basically BP stands for Bad Polluters in my book from now on and a fantastic example of corporate hypocracy.

Here is what we can do.

1) blog about it to expose the falacy of the BP.com public campaign. We hope that enough exposure will shame them to stand up to act right, not just lie about wanting to be clean.
2) Sign these petitions currently being circulated among some polititians that can do something about it:

Congressman Mark Kirk http://kirkforcongress.com/petition1/
Chicago Parks petition against sludge dumping into lake Michigan by BP

3) Find out who the sell out public servants in Indiana are, blog about it, and hope that they will never ever get re-elected
4) Blast this guy for being an enemy to the environment Gov. Mitch Daniels