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Gulf Oil Impact: Coming Soon To Your City
Jun 3rd
Posted by Jennifer Roth in BP Oil Spill
If you haven’t already read our post on Bioremediation, which underscores the danger to the entire ecosystm of using dispersants in the gulf, be sure to do so. I fear that many cities not on the gulf coast are largely ignoring the crisis this situation is, because it doesn’t feel very “local” to them.
To that end, Carl Safina wrote this thorough account detailing why we are all Gulf victims now. He correctly and succinctly points out the tragic consequences of dumping dispersants on top of the oil. More >
Does Dispersant Use Violate Federal Law?
Jun 2nd
Posted by Jennifer Roth in BP Oil Spill
Marine biologist Rick Steiner suggests that it does.
“I have been trying for some time now to get any data on the size of the oil droplets exiting the blowout before and during dispersant use,” he writes. “After considerable badgering by me, EPA finally provided droplet size data during/after dispersant use” — a range of 2.5 to 60 microns, he said. More >
New Dispersant Concerns
Jun 1st
Posted by Jennifer Roth in BP Oil Spill
Well, they aren’t new to us. The article Gulf ‘Oil Cloud’ Triggers New Dispersant Concerns underscores the very real problem we’ve been yelling about:
The underwater contaminants are particularly “insidious” because they are invisible, Hollander said, adding that they were suspended in what looked like normal seawater. ”It may be due to the application of the dispersants that a portion of the petroleum has extracted itself away from the crude and is now incorporated into the waters with solvents and detergents,” he added.
“We think there could be both short-term and long-term implications … There’s a lot of unchartered territory that we’re moving into with this oil spill,” said Hollander. He said dispersants, a cocktail of organic solvents and detergents, had never been used at the depth of BP’s well before, and no one really knows how they interact physically and chemically under pressure with oil, water and gases. More >
Early, Tragic Impact of Corexit
Jun 1st
Posted by Jennifer Roth in BP Oil Spill
We are not sure how else to make the point that Corexit is not safe except to keep sharing the horrible after-effects. as they unfold. Almost a dozen clean up workers have been hospitalized after exposure to the toxic chemical. And by the way, these guys aren’t swimming in the water polluted with Corexit. The dead dolphins and other wildlife being found on shore however, are.
Let’s take a minute to review what we know about the current use of Corexit, and then what Corexit does to the living things under the water.
BP Plc’s oil spill, the biggest in U.S. history, has been sprayed with 950,000 gallons of chemicals on the surface and near the seabed to dissolve the oil into water. The amount of dispersants used is unprecedented and the behavior of the dissolved oil unknown, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson has said. More >
What You Can Do Right Now About The Oil Spill
May 31st
Posted by Jennifer Roth in BP Oil Spill
Here is the online contact form for President Barack Obama in the White House. This is quick and easy. Simply fill in the form telling him to step in and ban Corexit, effective immediately. We also want to send the message to use the alternative and much safer Bioremediation products. Take 30 seconds, click and send your message to BAN COREXIT IMMEDIATELY: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact. I’ll make it super easy and write it for you (see sample message below – cut and paste if you like). More >
