"BP made a difficult business decision, one that means this project may not happen or be moved to another state. I hope, along with everyone else, that someone discovers a new technology in the next year or so that enables BP to move ahead, meaning Hoosiers would get the benefits of this enormous investment -- at the job site and the gas pump. If so, there would be absolutely no detectable difference in the water quality of Lake Michigan, but if public confidence were strengthened, that would be a plus. For now, let's hope this quiets the hypocrisy of politicians elsewhere whose states dump vastly greater amounts of effluent in the Great Lakes and other bodies of water than what BP would do under the new permit."

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Link to this event:

Governor Mitch Daniels' statement about BP's decision regarding its Whiting facility discharge limits