Chicago Tribune; BP will not discharge additional pollution into Lake Michigan

[madhoosier]

A while back, BP America honcho Stephen Elbert made a telling remark about all the furor stirred by the company's plans to dump more pollution into Lake Michigan. "We are a lot of things," Elbert said. "Stupid, I hope, is not one of them."

On Thursday BP America Chairman and President Bob Malone proved that. He announced that his company would do the smart thing: It won't discharge more pollution into the lake.

But Malone added a warning: The company could be forced to cancel the $3.8 billion expansion project to process more heavy crude oil from Canada, if it cannot be done under the old limits.

The rest of the story;
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0824edit1aug24,0,5369313.story

[caraher]

1. Only time will tell whether this holds up

Is BP "Greenwashing" us? It sounds like their still hanging onto the option of extorting more corporate welfare (in the form of not re-investing their profits into a clean expansion) in exchange for temporary construction jobs and what they say will be about 80 permanent jobs.