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Review of Oil Spill Dispersant Literature
Jun 17th
In A Review of Literature Related to Oil Spill Dispersants (1997 – 2008, total of 430 papers) this comprehensive report considers the impact, effectiveness and related factors for using dispersants in oil spills. I’ve called out some important excerpts here. If you don’t have time to read it all, at least review the sections that are in bold. More >
Nineteen Days – No Corexit Alternative?
Jun 7th
It’s been 19 days since the EPA (publicly) ordered… I mean suggested that BP find an alternative to the highly toxic Corexit. More >
Follow The Data, Forget Nalco
Jun 4th
Today I had a conversation with a colleague in Seattle. He has a pilot friend who spends summers dropping flame retardant on out of control forest and wild fires on the west coast. His friend was just hired by BP to join their current fleet of planes dumping Corexit in the Gulf of Mexico. Let’s start with this fact: currently BP claims to have dumped just over 1 million gallons of Corexit in the Gulf. Knowing all the other blatant lies BP has told thus far (there are no plumes, oh, it’s just food poisoning, the leak is manageable…), I personally do not believe this number. But it’s hard to dispute without evidence.
So consider this: the plane that my colleague’s friend will be flying to dump Corexit is a DC-10. For those of you who don’t know, that’s a hella big plane. More >
Ban Corexit Now: Join Us, Send a Clear Message!
May 29th
As stated in the prior post, one of our top priorities today is to send a clear message to the EPA to ban Corexit IMMEDIATELY. BP MUST stop using this product. Today more workers were hospitalized More >
