Yesterday at an event in Lakeville, Gov. Daniels was questioned by local media on the BP dumping controversy, and whether he was ready to reconsider IDEM's issuance of a permit that would allow increased dumping in Lake Michigan. His response was as expected:
The "Save our Lakes" debate will make its debut in the Hoosier state. A hearing will take place on Wednesday in Indianapolis.
The hearing is to discuss a permit that allows the BP refinery in Whiting to dump more wastes into Lake Michigan.
Governor Mitch Daniels told us on Tuesday that he still believes Indiana did the right thing in approving the permit.
"The city of Chicago puts more ammonia in the water than BP would. The city of Detroit puts more ammonia in the Great Lakes than BP would, the city of Saginaw, Wisconsin, so I really think that its important to try to deal with the facts and the science here, and maybe that can come starting at tomorrow's hearing," said Governor Daniels.
Just to recap, the argument here is that because some rather large industrial cities do worse than the new BP plant, we aren't under any obligation to expect better of the company.
Flawless.
Not covered in the story were statements made by the Governor in which he described the growing protests in the region as "emotional" rather than "scientific." The Governor also gave a guarantee that if any technology is presented to his office that could reduce the pollution of the BP plant significantly, he would support that. This was all said with the understanding that Governor Daniels didn't see that as a possibility, and he continued to shop his unimpressive hypothetical experiment in which a speed limit of 30 mph doesn't mean we can arrest someone for going 20 mph. Never mind if that car going 20 mph is running over a few old ladies as it coasts through a red light.
Way to set that bar high, Governor.
Personally, I hope that the local media who were recording the questioning got the technology statement on tape, because when people begin to lay out the options that BP has at their disposal, I expect these groups to hold the Governor to his promise of pursuing any and all improvements in the processing of the new BP plant's pollution output.
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