Oh Great

[Tolak]

"BP, which aggressively markets itself as an environmentally friendly corporation"

http/www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi...ll=chi-news-hed

After years of effort, and many millions of dollars spent cleaning up the lake, Indiana is giving BP a pass on their state pollution laws. This not only affects the fish living in the lake, which many organizations have worked on cleaning up & stocking for the sport & commercial fishing industry, it also affects the drinking water supply of four states. 6,600 pounds of crud into the lake daily. Thanks BP.

 

[rdd1952]

But just think it will create 80 more jobs!!! Unreal what states do in the want for more money. And in the end, it will probably cost the state even more than they are making by having them there in clean up and water purification costs. Hopefully, some of the other states that use the lake for a water supply will step in and protest enough to force them to rescind the "free pass. Also, since they will be dumping the max allowed by the federal governement, hopefully the feds will keep a very close eye on them and hit them with a huge fine every time they exceed the limit.

 

[chibi]

That's terrible. I hate BP. Too expensive. Now I'll NEVER give them any of my money. Thanks for sharing that. I'm not a huge environmentalist but seeing things like this pisses me off. Human laziness and ignorance is disgraceful.

 

[rdd1952]

Unfortunately, I'm sure BP's not the only one. Just the one in the news right now. I can understand that we need to process and refine our own oil to help relieve our dependence on foreign oil but we have to be careful of how we do it. Trashing and polluting the environment isnt the way to do it.

 

[*Fishkies*]

That's odd especially for BP, but then again there are many other companies out there that will say they are enviromentally friendly and then years later they are caught for something horrorendous.

 

[Tolak]

The way I understand it ammonia is a component of fertilizers used in agriculture. Team up with the agriculture industry, one man's trash is another man's treasure. I also know that petroleum products are used in the road paving industry, particularly with asphalt. Some components of this sludge may be utilized in that manner.

Different industries in general need to work together with problems like this. Humans lived for millions of years without gasoline powered vehicles, we sure aren't going to live long without fresh water. Looks like I'll be adding Prime to my tanks with a turkey baster instead of a ml dropper to combat the effects of increased heavy metals.

 

[BigC]

When it comes to environmental issues these big companies say they care but when money $£$£$£$£ is involved they plant a few trees somewhere else offer a few backhanders to dubious politicians and they always achieve their goals in the end. GREED.

 

[CruX]

It's a shame but you really can't blame BP if they are acting within the law. It seems that the US government don't consider the environment a big priority. I don't have any statistics but the USA is often quoted as the worlds biggest polluter. I don't know if that's true, but if it is true, those people who object to using BP theoretically should boycott living in the USA as protest too.

Food for thought.

 

[K.J.]

That sucks. What does BP make? I've never heard of them. Not sure how much of this stuff goes on in washington, but we have a private well so it wouldn't effect me.

 

[CruX]

That sucks. What does BP make? I've never heard of them. Not sure how much of this stuff goes on in washington, but we have a private well so it wouldn't effect me.

Petrol and Diesel

 

[J4MES]

BP make petrol/gas for cars.

J4MES

 

[-germ-]

Must say that BP have a reportedly abysmal track record when it comes to abuses of nature and people. As do most big fuel providers.
Check this site;
Corporate watch.

 

[vinylman]

Money talks. Unfortunately.

 

[rdd1952]

It's a shame but you really can't blame BP if they are acting within the law. It seems that the US government don't consider the environment a big priority. I don't have any statistics but the USA is often quoted as the worlds biggest polluter. I don't know if that's true, but if it is true, those people who object to using BP theoretically should boycott living in the USA as protest too.

Food for thought.

Just because of the number of people in the US and the number of cars we own, we are definitely one of the biggest polluters however there are a ot of constraints in place that keep our pollution from being as bad as it could be. Catalytic converters on cars for instance helps reduce the amount of pollution the produce.

My wife is an environment analyst with a large company and they really have to follow strict guidelines. They get audied by the government every 2 years and have an in-house audit very year. As far as the most polluted places, China is the king of pollution. I think she said the other day that she had just read an article that said that the 10 most polluted bodies of water in the world were all in China although I just found this article about a river in Indonesia. Now that is what I call pollution. I also remember reading an article the other day about all the rivers over there that were having major problems with poisonous algae, all from pollution.

 

[-germ-]

Thats awful.... The picture is particularly shocking.

Another interesting river pollution threat is the situation with the river ganges, containg a huge amount of pollution, particularly bodily waste, dead bodies and general human rubbish. Hindus are obliged by their religion to bathe in it, around cities this situation is a serious threat as you would imagine.

Fecal-coliform counts of about 50,000 bacteria per 100 milliliters of water, 10,000% higher than the government standard for safe river bathing.

From this link--> me...
Although not a result of corporate irresponsibility (unless you consider religions as large corporations, but thats not for TFF) it is a sorry state of affairs that is just going to escalate.