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At least four of Terry O'Brien's K-Plus clients are directly regulated by MWRD and participate in the district's "significant industrial user" program. In fact, one client, a division of chemical producer Nalco Holding Co., is listed on the district's Web site as its sixth-largest payer of user fees to clean up its pollution, having paid $1.7 million to the district for pollution in the past three years.
Water district chief owns firm that helps polluters
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Let's put a cap on trading pollution for fees, Commissioner O'Brien! Best share yet, Hugh!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
What's ironic is that Nalco Chemical makes water treatment chemicals.
How true, Disaffected!
Being part of an environmental consulting firm and in control of our water seems dangerous, but it could also be good. What if he got his clients to go more green and help them cut back on pollution? It would make both his jobs easier in the end.
But this is Chicago, so who am I kidding...
Well, Terry O'Brien's bid for Cook County Board President just got a little more treacherous.
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