Environmentalists of the Indiana state have been lately making a hue and cry over allowing BP oil refinery in whiting, Indiana to release much more ammonia and industrial wastes into lake Michigan. It has reported that Indiana officials have allowed this $3.8 billion company to dump more waste to the Lake Michigan, on the future assurance that it shall generate more job now and in the future.
In todays modern industrial society we know energy independence and clean water, both are important to us and we just can’t choose anyone of them. Instead it is much like trade offs where one has to advance a little at the expense of other at any time. BP got the permission from the Indiana Department of Environmental Management and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to discharge the wastes in the lake and the discharges are still well within legal limits. Further BP does not and will not dump sludge and toxic waste in the lake.
The new exemption shall allow the refinery to plan its expansion and produce 15% more than its current capacity, not to mention the modern technology that works behind all these. The oil we get from Canada will be the Fuel for the Midwest, thus we don’t need oil from Middle East and in today’s scenario its importance can’t be stressed any more.
The fact is accepted that BP can now release 54 percent more ammonia and 35 percent more other industrial wastes into Lake Michigan each day, yet Lake Michigan pollution is under federal limits. Oil independence is a huge need since 9/11 and U.S hasn’t made huge progress as it still imports half its fuel needs from other countries, probably to achieve this oil independence we have to make small sacrifices for it too. BP markets itself as an environmentally friendly company and should be held to that standard and hence any over pollution shall be accountable to its own image.
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