BP gets to keep on dumping ammonia/indus.sludge into lake Mich.

because they are going to hire 80 people..........


http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-pollute_15jul15,1,647384.story?track=rss&ctrack=3&cset=true


BP gets break on dumping in lake
Refinery expansion entices Indiana


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.

Indiana regulators exempted BP from state environmental laws to clear the way for a $3.8 billion expansion that will allow the company to refine heavier Canadian crude oil. They justified the move in part by noting the project will create 80 new jobs.

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.

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He said regulators still are unsure about the ecological effects of the relatively new refining process BP plans to use. "We ratcheted it down quite a bit from what it could have been," Higginbotham said.
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is prison too good for Indiana politicians?

the lake endured with PVCs.....now this. I grew up in Hammond,IN and got our water from the lake. Oh, yummy! Way back in the 60's students knew the filters were clogged with fish by the odors emanating from the school water fountains. Wonder what it smells like today?

And to answer your question, prison is too good for the politicians. I have one in my sights. My twin's husband will soon be sworn in as a state senator to fill a vacancy. Believe me I've watched this guy for thirty years....my sister and I are not getting along right now and a lot of it has to do with our political viewpoints. I have seen this brother in law rise into the ranks of the wealthy as his influenece grew from being an attorney for U.S. Steels to essentially a state lobbyist and now as a senator! He has been on the boards of many organizations...suppose those will have to go by the wayside with the senate seat (I hope) but it's not good. Oh, did I mention he's a republican?

Word History: We know where Hoosiers come from: Indiana. But where does the name Hoosier come from? That is less easy to answer. The origins of Hoosier are rather obscure, but the most likely possibility is that the term is an alteration of hoozer, an English dialect word recorded in Cumberland, a former county of northwest England, in the late 19th century and used to refer to anything unusually large. The transition between hoozer and Hoosier is not clear. The first recorded instance of Hoosier meaning "Indiana resident" is dated 1826; however, it seems possible that senses of the word recorded later in the Dictionary of Americanisms, including "a big, burly, uncouth specimen or individual; a frontiersman, countryman, rustic," reflect the kind of use this word had before it settled down in Indiana. As a nickname, Hoosier was but one of a variety of disparaging terms arising in the early 19th century for the inhabitants of particular states. For example, Texans were called Beetheads, Alabamans were Lizards, Nebraskans were Bug-eaters, South Carolinians were Weasels, and Pennsylvanians were Leatherheads. People in Missouri might have had it worst of all—they were called Pukes. Originally, these names were probably taken up by people living in neighboring states, but belittled residents adopted them in a spirit of defiant pride, much as American colonists turned the derisive term Yankee into a moniker for their spirit of rebellion. Today, most of these frontier nicknames have disappeared from the landscape. A few like Okie still exist with much of their original animus. Others survive as nicknames for the sports teams of state universities—the North Carolina Tarheels, the Ohio Buckeyes, and so on—fighting words only on the playing field or court.

We have ourselves a veritable "mini-me" right here in IN. Funny thing, though, that even the reddest repukes have had enough of him!