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Having learning nothing from the Gulf disaster, BP allows crude oil to pour into Lake Michigan

By Mark | March 25, 2014

It looks like our friends at BP are up to their old tricks again. This time, though, the oil being spilled isn’t in the Gulf of Mexico, where the company’s cost-cutting measures in 2010 led to the largest oil spill in recorded history, but in Lake Michigan, the largest repository of fresh water on the […]

Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged BP, British Petroleum, Corporate Crime, crude oil, Deepwater Horizon, drinking water, fresh water, Great Lakes, gulf coast, Gulf of Mexico, Indiana, Lake Michigan, Michigan, oil, pollution, tar sands, Whiting | 10 Comments

Indiana continues to allow BP to dump toxic mercury into Lake Michigan… spelling doom for mankind

By Mark | June 23, 2013

A little over two years ago, we had a conversation on this site about what recourse, if any, the people of Michigan might have against Indiana for giving British Petroleum (BP) the go-ahead to disregard laws concerning the dumping of hazardous chemicals, and discharge unprecedented amounts of ammonia and toxic, heavy metal sludge into Lake […]