[Ost-news] Rain doesn't halt BP protest (Whiting Indiana)

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Rain doesn't halt BP protest  
By Erik Potter  
(Chicago) Post-Tribune  
April 21, 2008

Mother Earth was feeling a little crabby on Saturday's Earth Day activities in Whiting.

Rain pounded the area all day, but subsided long enough for the group of area residents and environmentalists to hold an outdoors rally at Whiting's Whihala County Park.

The group was protesting the $3.8 billion expansion of the BP's Whiting Refinery facility, which will allow it to process crude oil extracted from Canadian tar sand.

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