Dear Friends,

British Petroleum is poised to start dumping up to 1,584 pounds
of ammonia and 4,925 pounds of industrial solids into Lake
Michigan every single day.

Senator Dick Durbin and Congressman Rahm Emanuel have set up an
online petition to stop these plans in their tracks. They'll be
presenting the petition at a meeting with BP on September 1st.

Please join me by signing their petition to BP here:

http://ga3.org/campaign/bp_petition?rk=1pxZYO71GO6yW

Thanks for posting that.

I'm signing because I used to live in Chicago and some of my favorite memories are of swimming in Lake Michigan off the point in Hyde Park. And also because BP did such a great job on the Alaskan pipeline.

http://www.gregpalast.com/british-petroleums-smart-pig

Thanks for the link, I'm going to forward it to some people.

I remember hearing about this awhile back on WGN news and ever since then I have stopped using BP products. I know that they are doing all of these environmentally concious things, but this is a step backwards. The other kicker is that Arco uses BP products and they are the cheapest in town. They are also the closest to my house, so now I've have to go elsewhere.

Hyde Park is nice. I believe that we used to visit the lake over by Lincoln Park every once in a while.

TwoAlarmFire,

Don't believe BP's publicity. They are one of the most environmentally irresponsible companies in the world. I think that you're doing the right thing. Click on the link above about the Alaska pipeline. The scandal was all over the BBC Worldservice this summer. Just shameful.

I spent a lot of time by the lake at Lincoln Park, too. I miss Chicago all the time.

I lived within a mile of Lake Michigan in Chicago and Milwaukee for nearly 6 years, and I love the Lake. Spent many hours sitting and contemplating on the rocks at the Diversey Street marina in my early days in Chicago. I was married overlooking the Lake. http://www.cavtmuseums.org/vt/home.html We spent as much time as we could with our kids at the parks by the Lake.

Lake Michigan becomes more special to me with every day that I am far away from it.

I find it highly ironic that BP has been advertising itself as the evironmentally friendly oil company in light of this.

but of course they do. It's a deliberate campaign of misinformation and if we've learned anything about these, it's that they work. it started with the cigarette companies, then the petroleum interests took on global warming (there's no concensus among scientists! what? on which planet earth is this not happening?) and now polluters paint themselves as environmentally friendly.

And lets not even talk about our government.

*Beyond Petroleum

yeah I've passed it onto my address book...

have you guys heard about sellafield? its a nuclear power station in northern england that gets paid by other countries to recycle nuclear waste but it pumps most of it UNTREATED waste into the Irish sea & they're getting away with it. The EU are at them about it but no deal so far. The Irish sea is the most radioactive body of water in the world and we don't have a single nuclear reactor on this island. It's all theirs. 3 headed fish have actually been caught here.
you know a situations gonna be screwed up when the word british is involved...you would be hard pressed to find a crap situation in the world they don't have a hand in creating.
the people are mostly cool..the establishment there sucks though...

sorry..rant over..

dave

signed

Thanks for the information. Some people just don't seem to realize that water is a liquid, it flows....

there's still debate on how much of a role humans play in the warming.


not that i don't think this situation is bad itself.

Debate?

You mean the talking points and the scientists paid $10,000 by petroleum interests to support the "debate"?

There is no debate. There is science, and there is bullshit. EOS

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Oh, I know that they aren't as environmentally friendly as they say they are. I meant for that part to be sarcastic, but I failed. We talked about them in an Env. Science class that I took awhile back.

I miss Chicago all the time too. I haven't been back in about 5 years and it's killing me. What's worse is that my cousing is moving there (from Rockford) to go to school in the fall. He keeps sending me pictures of the town and it's just not right.

BP's profits are up 25% since they began their publicity campaign.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/06/beyond-the-pale/

And guess who was responsible for making sure that oil spill containment equipment was supposed to be on hand when the Exxon-Valdez ran aground? BP's pipeline managers filed fake reports stating that the equipment was available and in working order.

I just got an email from Durbin and Emanuel saying BP backed down. Kick ass.

I credit my signing of this petition

Stip, stop being a glory whore.