ApocaDocs: BP confirms oil spill into Lake Michigan from Whiting refinery

About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]

The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]

Explore:

Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!

SEARCH

A great gift
for crisis deniers!

Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
~~$24.99~~ now $15!
Or read FREE online!

Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon

Posted Wed Mar 26 2014: from Chicago Tribune:


	BP confirms oil spill into Lake Michigan from Whiting refinery http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1395842399 Less than a year after BP started up a new unit to process Canadian tar sands at its Whiting refinery, the company reported today that a malfunction allowed a slug of crude oil into Lake Michigan a few miles away from the Chicago city limits. It remains unclear how much oil spilled into the lake or how long the discharge continued. Workers at the refinery reported an oil sheen on the water about 4:30 p.m. Monday, and an official from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the leak was plugged by the time he arrived at 9 p.m. Mike Beslow, the EPA's emergency response coordinator, said there appeared to be no negative effects on Lake Michigan, the source of drinking water for 7 million people in Chicago and the suburbs.

[Read more stories about: toxic leak, oil issues]

New!:

No reader quips yet -- be the first!

Got a PaniQuip?

We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

'Doc Jim says:

No worries, our waterways are used to these spills by now.