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We use compacted sewage solids on agricultural fields!!!??? WHAT THE F*CK!

I’m SHOCKED that Canada allows RAW sewage to be dumped in their bodies of water where human contact with that water obviously occurs. Wouldn’t many of the conditions that they site in the film actually prove to be illegal in the US? I was under the assumption that laws & regulations enacted through the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the US Clean Water Act were put in place to eliminate these exact kinds of problems that they are speaking of.
And raw sewage is considered hazardous waste in the US. By law it is not allowed to enter any navagatible source of water.

To my understanding, the biggest issues we currently have with our water in the States is coming from the huge amounts of wastes that are produced by factory farming (one more reason to EAT LESS MEAT! Skip the chicken – save a creek) The current regulations do not adequately address how the millions of tons of shit that come from them should be handled. The other is what goes into the storm drains, and will eventually empty directly into a river or lake. In San Diego the beaches are sometimes closed after an exceptionally large storm due to all the pollutants that wash from the streets and are piped out into the ocean. Big waves will wash it right back to the beaches thereby making the water unsafe for human contact.

As for treatment plant sludge, I believe that before it can be used in fields for crops it must be so clean you could almost eat the sludge itself, so its a very small percentage that will actually be able to be used for agricultural purposes. The majority of it is considered a bio-hazard, and would be prepared as such before it can enter a landfill.

Have I been wrong to trust these things to be true?

Oh, and Chloee – me too about the guy in the Ganges river. Repeatedly dunking his head below the water and then washing it all over his face – how refreshing! Eau de toilette!

BPs toxic waste in Lk MI!?

Obviously I am an ignorant fool! In searching for info on boycotting BP Products, I came across an article done by the Chicago Sun-Times in 2007 that had called for a total boycott on BP.

Apparently, if you have enough money you can buy permits to give you exemptions to the regulations set forth by the EPA & Clean Water Act!

Late in that year (and you should LOVE this one, Robbyou) the Indiana Department of Environmental Management approved a permit allowing BP to exceed the regulation standards for acceptable waste levels dumped directly into Lake Michigan from their Indiana refinery. Estimations on toxins would include an increase of ammonia by 57%, toxic solids by 37%, and MERCURY, which is illegal for anyone else to dump.

I hate the amount of time that must be invested to see that the government is doing its job. I hate that the allmighty dollar sets the final word.

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11 lives lost, 37 days of increasing destruction,
and the oil spill was NOT AN UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT

P L E A S E BOYCOTT BP – shop at the stores, just don’t buy the gas (it can’t hurt to try)

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A R C O
A M A C O S T A T I O N S
A M / P M
S A F E W A Y G A S

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