Don't go to BP Amoco!

And don't piss off Pearl Jam

Posted by Sarah van Schagen at 4:39 PM on 21 Aug 2007

BP's sludge dumpage into Lake Michigan has a whole mess of people pissed off. Including green-leaning band Pearl Jam, who performed an angry li'l ditty at this year's Lollapalooza festival. The lyrics are pretty simple; sing it with me: "Don't go to BP Amoco!"

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Since learning about the sludge dumping a few weeks ago, I've moved BP even further down on my list of gas stations to support: they have now fallen from second to fourth, behind Dutch Shell, Citgo and Sunoco. BP seems to have a vast number of hits against them, and a vast number of good things going for them at the same time. Perhaps it's just greenwashing, but this has been a step too far.

I've had enough of BP polluting areas that I hold dear: I come from northern Indiana, near the lake, and many of my friends and family eat locally in the region, drink the water, breath the air... I also have friends and family who are experiencing the negative health effects of living near a BP refinery in Ohio - an area known for its high cancer rate. I'm sure there are even bigger issues with the company, but these two hit close enough to home that I may never buy gas from them again.

by zacaroni at 8:07 AM on 22 Aug 2007

Yeaaaaaah,,,,ddddduuuudeee

That Eddie Vedder hates them BP Amoco!

I mean, he lives simply...right?

Eddie Vedder's House:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/22623/

by jabailo at 8:28 AM on 22 Aug 2007

Pointless

So, we boycot BP when they do something in our neighborhoud? It's OK for these other companies to do the same somewhere else? These kind of actions are only designed to make yourself feel better without any rational or useful purpose.

by MarkUK at 10:43 AM on 22 Aug 2007

Good for Eddie Vedder

You know, it'd be great to get the presidential candidates talking about this issue!

Why are the Great Lakes any less important than the same old questions they have been getting in these debates?

I work for a coalition that is coming out with an economic report in a couple weeks showing that cleaning up the Great Lakes will turn out to be CHEAPER in the long-term.

Take a look at our site:
http://www.healthylakes.org/

by HealOurWaters at 1:52 PM on 22 Aug 2007

MarkUK U OK?

Um, no! There's a rational and useful purpose, MarkUK: my health. And no, I don't think that my priorities are out of line for caring more about myself and my own health than the health of people that I don't know who are suffering from injustices that I'm not aware of, in some country that I don't live in, for some reason that I cannot begin to ascertain!

Are you saying I should believe otherwise? Do you, sir, care more about my health than you care about your own? If so, maybe you should be boycotting BP instead of me! Would you care about me less if you found out that I live in your "neighborhoud" (is that how they spell it in the UK?)? Tell me what you would do if they poured sludge in your water!

by zacaroni at 3:08 PM on 22 Aug 2007

it's o.k. now

I guess it is just fine and dandy now to go back to buying gas from BP and watch Canada forests pillaged, etc. Thanks Pearl Jam, thanks Illinois Enviro's.

chicagotribune.com
BP backs down on dumping in lake

by ids at 7:53 AM on 23 Aug 2007

ids

don't be an ass

by zacaroni at 7:39 AM on 24 Aug 2007

Lake wind

Ironically the wind off the lakes could power plugin hybrid cars and replace most of that oily fuel. And revive the rust belt economy and US job and tax base.

Latest finiancial headlines claim china does not need US consumers anymore to power it's boom. It's own consumers are enough.

Time to lead in renewable energy or become a has been super power and former experiment with constitutional freedom. We passively hand over the reigns to multinational corporate power and oily doom?

Lead the world in wind power and plugin cars Great lakes States! Canada will join in too.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

by amazingdrx at 8:38 AM on 24 Aug 2007

Zacaroni's ass

Associated Press - August 24, 2007 10:24 AM ET

A week of heavy rain has taken its tool on underground tunnels and reservoirs in northern Illinois, forcing sanitation officials to pour MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF raw sewage into Lake Michigan.

The sewage being dumped is both raw and partially treated.

by ids at 9:00 AM on 24 Aug 2007

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