BP Whiting Refinery

I know that all of us who keep up on the news locally and around the nation pay attention to articles that have to do with our environment. In fact, my friend Marcie just put up ideas for being green and helping the environment from your home! Throughout the US there are many big companies that work day in and day out on projects that we might not even think twice about. However, there was recently an article in the Chicago Tribune about the opening of a BP refinery in Whiting (near Lake Michigan) which misrepresnted the actual facts concerning the opening of this refinery! You can check out the Chicago Tribune article yourself if you'd like (I know people want to read first hand then check out the facts). Side Note: You will have to register on Chicago Tribune's Site to read any of their news articles.

Here is another article that you can compare from The News-Sentinel.Com (out of the Fort Wayne area) which represented the facts more appropriately!

So what was misrepresented and what is the truth in regards to the building of this new BP Refinery in Whiting? You can read the main facts about the refinery here: BP Document. And I'll tell you about a few:

• Water going into Lake Michigan--it will only be treated water going into the lake. Nothing more than water is going back into the lake...no chemicals, no impurities, just water!
• Environmental and People Harm--There is none! They are being very careful to maintain safeguards to environment and to people who come in contact with the refinery or work there....
• In fact this refinery is bringing tons of new jobs to the midwest, and in an era where work is hard to come by this is GREAT!!!
• Fuel for the Midwest--This is another GREAT component for a country where the gas prices are sky high and fuel is hard to come by!

You can read all these facts and more at the BP Whiting Refinery Fact Sheet. Check it out and make your own educated conclusion...you will see that this refinery is a good thing for our economy and not the monster that some newspapers have made it out to be!