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That’s what the Chicago Tribune has said. They accuse BP of unsafe environmental practices. They have been called out for the amount of sludge and ammonia they are dumping into Lake Michigan. BP says that they were misrepresented and have released a fact sheet to dispel all the bad press they are getting from the statements in the Tribune.

BP states that they aren’t even meeting their legal limits as far as how much pollution they actually dump into the Lake. On the same note, they state that only treated water is being put into the Lake and therefore not adversely affecting the environment.

I think it’s such a shame how BP is being attacked. I don’t have any alliance with them, but I have been following their progress. I am all about making the environment better, and I really think that BP is working to show other companies how to help the environment. It really just sounds like a bunch of hype to discredit them so their practices are not adopted by the oil industry at large.

So who is right and who is wrong? I leave that up to you to decide. The fact that BP has come out with transparent statements in reaction to the bad press says something to me. I don’t think they are trying to hide anything. It really just sounds like a bunch of corporate jealousy. If a company succeeds, someone HAS to try and discredit them.

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I have been gone for a week and had every intention of being here… for that I am sorry. Verizon and I had a misunderstanding that kept me offline for a good part of last week. The first mistake was my own… make sure that when you get a brand new debit/credit card from your bank that you go through every single one of your accounts to make sure that your info is updated. Trust me, you don’t want to deal with it after the fact. I had no phone, no internet for 2 days because of that oversight.

The next thing that really got me was that when I was reattached to my service, THEY screwed up. Verizon apparently reconnected my service wrong and had to go back in and figure out what they did wrong. That was a lot of fun. I have been hearing a lot about how bad Verizon has been with their uptime, but I hadn’t had the displeasure to deal with too much of it. This whole *oops we reconnected you wrong* thing really irked me. How is it possible to do that? I don’t even know. Any ideas?

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It has been a while since I got a chance to write down the thoughts in my head about the things going on in tech-land. I know you were all wondering if I disappeared, but I didn’t.

So here is a synopsis of what I have been looking through in tech news recently.

I think I am in love with the LeapFrog children’s computer. It is going to be a hit with my own son when we get him one. Anything that keeps him from hogging up my computer is good for us.

Can you guess what I am going to say about the security problem linked between Firefox and IE? Yeah, it sounds like something someone would have purposely put inside the program to make people delete Firefox.

Hearing that a lighter, video improved PSP will be out in time for Christmas irks me a bit. I know they had to make up SOMETHING for the holiday season, but now all these kids will be clamoring for the newer version when the older version is actually quite good already.

I am starting to really dislike scientists. They find a baby wooly mammoth frozen and now they want to try and clone it. Uh, they went EXTINCT for a reason. I am not trying to live in Jurassic Park.

It cracks me up that the car companies like Ford are getting more fuel efficient engines for the higher cylindered cars. With all the money they spend on getting that technology together, they could be advocating the use of GREEN fuels instead.