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Subject: Lisa P. Jackson, head of the EPA, is killing US refineries
YelliChink    7/6/2010 10:46:46 AM
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/07/epa-puts-squeez.html Last time I check, nobody is complaining about air polution from aging refineries. Even if it is a problem, it is the business that deserves time and federal bail out. However, Lisa P. Jackson is aiming to kill US energy business. Again, yet another US politicians stands on the enemy side to weaken the US.
 
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YelliChink       11/10/2010 1:23:52 PM
 
 Inspector: Drilling Moratorium Report Altered by White House

Published November 10, 2010
 

WASHINGTON -- The Interior Department's inspector general says the White House edited a drilling safety report in a way that made it falsely appear that scientists and experts supported the idea of the administration's six-month ban on new drilling.

The inspector general says the editing changes resulted "in the implication that the moratorium recommendation had been peer reviewed." But it hadn't been. The scientists were only asked to review new safety measures for offshore drilling.

 
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Somehow some people in the White House do not want the US to be less reliant on foreign oil, mainly from Canada and Mexico. Of course, increasing domestic production in the US will drive world oil price down, but it seems that the Fed do not want deflation and/or price decrease that would relieve the burden on the poor at the moment.
 
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VelocityVector    Cheapskates   11/10/2010 4:36:52 PM

For years BP has sought permits that would allow it to pump tons of toxic refinery sludge onto the floor of Lake Michigan from BP's aging refinery at northern Indiana.  The exit point of BP's pipes that run into the Lake is located only a few miles from the drinking water intakes off Chicago.  If EPA has to kill BP's refinery in order to prevent toxic crap from contaminating my drinking water then I am all for this.  Given BP profits the company ought to invest in upgrades, maintenance and waste removal else close the refinery.  0.02

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YelliChink       11/10/2010 5:43:35 PM

For years BP has sought permits that would allow it to pump tons of toxic refinery sludge onto the floor of Lake Michigan from BP's aging refinery at northern Indiana.  The exit point of BP's pipes that run into the Lake is located only a few miles from the drinking water intakes off Chicago.  If EPA has to kill BP's refinery in order to prevent toxic crap from contaminating my drinking water then I am all for this.  Given BP profits the company ought to invest in upgrades, maintenance and waste removal else close the refinery.  0.02


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I would be very suspecious of things from the Tribune.
 
 
The Chicago area is especially hard hit by supply disruptions because it is at the end of a long supply line that begins in the oil fields of Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma and the pipe lined from tankers in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP competitors are engaged in similar projects that will enable them to refine heavy crude and tap Alberta's reserve, Krauss said.

Included in the project is $150 million in upgrades, involving new processing units and new technolgy, for the refinery's waste water treatment plant, which are necessary because heavy crude requires additional treatment for ammonia and suspended solids, he added.

Following treatment, the composition of the refinery's waste water will be "comparable" to the treated water municipalities discharge into the lake, Krauss said.
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BP's expanded refinery would be the top U.S. processor of the growing supply of heavy high-sulfur Canadian crude, raising its annual production of gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel by 15 percent to about 4.7 billion gallons annually, Dean said. He said more than a third of the project's budget, about $1.4 billion, would go toward updating the wastewater treatment plant's series of settling tanks, filtration systems and treatment basins with new pollution-removal features.
 
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Do I trust BP? No. However, BP is easier to be held responsible when they screw up. Environmental nutjobs in the publishing and news media, however, can't be held responsible for the consequences of their actions.
 
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VelocityVector    Not The Trib   11/10/2010 9:27:05 PM

Being a lawyer by trade, albeit patent, I along with colleagues got ahold of actual source documents somehow.  Copies of authenticated orginals.  Should BP attempt to challenge any online claim I have posted, I shall be *happy*, truly, to acquiesce to those who might publish such documentation if I am challenged.  Let loose.  BP was quite willing at a point in time to accept increased statistical human deaths in exchange for profits, some may allege and I shall not rebut at this time.  Nominally they are claiming the company is in the midst of cleaning up this and that during upgrades.  0.02

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