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Protest Over Increased Discharge of the Effluents by Oil Refinery into Michigan Lake
August 04, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Environmental Health
Protest is mounting over the permission granted to a large oil refinery to discharge its effluents in to Lake Michigan.
It is the second largest lake among the Laurentian Great Lakes. They are the largest group of fresh water lakes on Earth. Of late concern is growing over the pollution of the system.
Tens of thousands of people here have signed protest petitions over the refinery issue and the petitions would be delivered next week to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels.
Organizers said Monday last that they had collected 45,000 signatures.
Regulators in Indiana allowed the refinery in Whiting, just across the Illinois state line, to increase the amounts of ammonia and suspended solids that it releases into the lake after the facility undergoes a $3 billion expansion.
Whiting, a BP unit that produces 16 million gallons of oil products a day, about half of it gasoline.
BP last received a discharge permit for the refinery in 1990.
Backers of the expansion, including Governor Daniels, said a bigger refinery would mean more jobs for Indiana an estimated 2,000 contract jobs for the expansion and 80 positions at the refinery.
It is estimated that the expanded refinery would produce an additional 620 million gallons of gasoline each year. Americans consume, on average, about 385 million gallons of gasoline a day.
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