Showing posts with label Corexit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corexit. Show all posts

Monday, July 12, 2010

BP LYING TO CLEAN UP CREWS - 15 Dollars an Hour for Long Term Health Problems

Just like the 911 clean up crews the clean up workers in the Gulf are being told breathing without a mask while you work is safe - here's your paycheck.  Another crime in the gulf is happening right before our eyes.  People who lost their livelihoods fishing are now doing whatever they can to survive - but for how long?  Another example of how Corporate greed overrides telling the truth. 


Sunday, July 11, 2010

BP OIL SPILL IN THE GULF: Toxic Dispersants and You

Is BP hiding the problem at the risk of making everything more Toxic?  They have been told over and over to stop spraying Corexit .  But it seems like BP is the big stupid bully on the playground in control of the ball and they can do whatever they want with it.  

Sunday, July 4, 2010

IT'S NOT JUST THE OCEAN AND BEACHES THAT ARE BEING POISONED

The immediate and long term health effects of the Gulf oil spill are finally reaching mainstream news.  Government agencies are still hiding, denying the devastating health risks to MILLIONS OF PEOPLE why?  Repeatedly I am told it's to, "not cause mass panic".  I guess that means mass death is ok?  Here are some clips making a case for the fact that it's not just the ocean and pretty white beaches that are being poisoned. 
 

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

OIL SPILL CLEAN UP and COREXIT

Corexit is a product used to break up oil slicks.  It is made by the Nalco Holding Company which works in a partnership with BP Oil and Exxon Oil. Corexit is the most-used dispersant in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, with COREXIT 9527 having been replaced by COREXIT 9500 after the former was deemed too toxic.

On May 19, 2010 the Evironmental Protection Agency gave BP 24 hours to choose less toxic alternatives to Corexit but BP refused to change from Corexit, citing safety and availability concerns and kept on spraying. BP has used Corexit EC9500A and Corexit EC9527A thus far, applying 800,000 US gallons (3,000,000 l) total but more accurate estimates run as high as 1,000,000 US gallons (3,800,000 l) underwater.