Angelsmile
Posts: 113
Joined: 12/20/2005
Status: offline
|
Some articles found on how toxic oil and chemical agents are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fWpFiGkoCM
mmflint — 24. Mai 2010
Fishermen Report Illness From BP Chemicals
http://dailyfreep.blogspot.com/2010/05/fishermen-report-illness-from-bp.html
Friday, May 21, 2010
Fishermen Report Illness From BP Chemicals
"More and more stories about sick fishermen are beginning to surface after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The fishermen are working out in the Gulf -- many of them all day, every day -- to clean up the spill. They said they blame their ailments on the chemicals that BP is using. One fisherman said he felt like he was going to die over the weekend. "I've been coughing up stuff," Gary Burris said. "Your lungs fill up." Burris, a longtime fisherman who has worked across the Gulf Coast, said he woke up Sunday night feeling drugged and disoriented. "It was like sniffing gasoline or something, and my ears are still popping," Burris said. "I'm coughing up stuff. I feel real weak, tingling feelings."
"Marine toxicologist Riki Ott said the chemicals used by BP can wreak havoc on a person's body and even lead to death."
"The volatile, organic carbons, they act like a narcotic on the brain," Ott said. "At high concentrations, what we learned in Exxon Valdez from carcasses of harbor seals and sea otters, it actually fried the brain, (and there were) brain lesions."
"Rep. Charlie Melancon said he wants something done. He sent a letter to President Barack Obama's administration calling for temporary health care clinics to be set up in the area."
http://www.wdsu.com/health/23615203/detail.html
Posted by Michael Dare at 11:11 AM ShareThis
http://www.contrarianpundit.com/
EPA Allows BP To Fry Fishermen’s Brains
 Category: Toxic Sludge, Your Government At Work
"Last Wednesday evening, the EPA directed BP to use less toxic dispersants on the Gulf oil spill within four days. BP’s favorite dispersant, Corexit®, has been banned in the U.K. for over a decade and is linked to respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney, blood, and reproductive disorders. Approximately 700,000 gallons have already been poured into Gulf waters.
On Friday, BP told the EPA it would continue to use Corexit®, since it couldn’t find a reasonable alternative (despite news reports that more than 100,000 gallons of dispersant Sea-Brat 4 is available in Houston). BP’s hubris in the face of the EPA’s order begs three questions: (1) What dispersant does BP use in Britain? (2) Who exactly is in charge of perhaps the greatest environmental catastrophe in our country’s history? (3) If BP is on sound legal footing, how did our government allow a foreign oil corporation to usurp its authority?
As New Orleans’ WDSU Channel 6 reports, the damages from BP’s use of Corexit® aren’t restricted to marine life."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/oil-on-troubled-waters-488931.html
Monday, 31 January 2005
Oil on troubled waters
"When crude oil devastated Alaska's coast in 1989, the damage to wildlife was all too clear. Only now is the cost to human life being fully realised. Andy Rowell reports."
"Ott (a marine biologist) has tried to uncover the true social, health and environmental costs of the spill, and has just written a book exposing the lies and myths surrounding it. The oil spill killed more wildlife than any in history, but her book also tells of the mounting human cost of the catastrophe, and the implications for our use of oil."
"The images were a public-relations disaster for Exxon and other oil companies. Pictures of workers wiping rocks with rags looked totally inadequate. The numbers killed ranged from thousands of marine mammals, including otters, seals and orcas, to hundreds of thousands of sea birds, such as murres and ducks, to millions of fish.
Every oil spill brings untried new ways of trying to clean up. The unacknowledged truth is that only really effective tactic is not to spill it in the first place. "They didn't know what to do. The oil industry collectively is not able to clean up oil once it is spilled on beaches," Ott says. Still, 11,000 people were hired to clean up the oil. "
"Exxon tried an untested method of blasting the rocks with high-pressure hot-water hoses. This washed the oil away, but with devastating consequences. As well as wiping out wildlife that had survived the disaster, the hoses caused chronic health problems for the workers - and this is the hidden story. They vaporised the oil into a fine mist that the workers inhaled. This toxic cocktail contained polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, now classified as some of the worst chemicals known to man.
Crude oil was known to be dangerous. A 1988 Exxon Safety Data Sheet said:
"High vapour concentrations are irritating to the eyes and the respiratory tract, may cause headaches and dizziness... may cause unconsciousness, and may have other central nervous system effects including death"
and added "Minimise breathing vapours. Minimise skin contact." Fishermen trying to stop the oil spreading soon became nauseous and dizzy. So did the first workers, who claim they weren't given protective equipment or warned that the oil fumes could be hazardous to their health."
"Ron Smith was one of the workers who headed to the spill hoping to earn good money. He worked on the boats. He started to get intense headaches, especially on sunny windless days, where he could watch the "vapours rising like heat waves". Even after stopping work, the headaches and mood swings continued. Eventually he went to see doctors specialising in environmental medicine in Dallas, to be told he had "very high levels of some pretty dangerous chemicals" in his body. Smith later settled a personal injury lawsuit against Exxon, and he was subject to a gag order."
"Captain Richard Nagel worked on the clean-up for three years. In some bays, the oil was six inches thick on the water. "You couldn't breathe right and your eyes would tear constantly," he recalls. He was told about Inipol: "This stuff is harmless. You can eat it and it won't harm you." In the early Nineties, he too started suffering chronic symptoms - calcium breakdown and blood disorders, seizures, acute anxiety and severe depression, loss of balance, night sweats, blurred vision and memory loss.
He has been told by his doctors that he is dying."
"Ott has been collating information about people who sued Exxon. "I found Exxon's clinical data, showing that 6,722 workers reported respiratory distress. That is more than one in two clean-up workers. That is like an epidemic," she recalls. She argues that Exxon "covered-up mass chemical poisoning of the clean-up workers"."
"Ott says scientific studies have shown that an estimated 50-100 tons of oil remains in Prince William Sound. As it breaks down, it accumulates in the food chain from mussel beds, clams and whelks to worms, crabs and fish and then to mammals. Ott contends that oil continues to harm wildlife 15 years after a spill."
'Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill' by Riki Ott is published by Dragonfly Sisters Press (see http://soundtruth.info/
< Message edited by Angelsmile -- 5/27/2010 8:10:30 AM >
|
Chemicals used by BP can even lead to death - 
Profile
New Messages
No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages
Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages
Locked w/o New Messages
Post New Thread