Cancer-causing agent detected in water after pipeline spill

[DonViejo]

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

GLENDIVE, Mont. (AP) — A cancer-causing component of oil has been detected in the drinking water supply of an eastern Montana city just downstream from a crude oil spill that entered the Yellowstone River.

Officials say elevated levels of benzene were found in samples taken from a water treatment plant that serves about 6,000 people in the agricultural community of Glendive. Truckloads of bottled water were expected to be brought in Tuesday, and residents were warned not to drink or cook with water from their taps.

Up to 50,000 gallons of oil spilled Saturday from a break in a pipeline owned by Wyoming-based Bridger Pipeline Co.

Scientists from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the elevated amounts of benzene are above the levels recommended for long-term consumption but don’t pose a short-term health hazard.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/20/cancer_causing_agent_detected_in_water_after_pipeline_spill/

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

1. Scientists from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say :

the elevated amounts of benzene are above the levels recommended for long-term consumption but don’t pose a short-term health hazard.

They always do, don't they. No research whatsoever, but they are damn sure there's "nothing to see here"!!

[Ferd Berfel]

2. They say that BS..

Because THEY DON"T HAVE TO LIVE ON IT!

"...it's Okay to drink, you go first..."

The assholes.

[Sunlei]

3. benzene is well known to increase the risk of cancer and other illnesses.

The American Petroleum Institute (API) stated in 1948 that "it is generally considered that the only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene

[rhett o rick]

4. We were told that pipelines couldn't fail. Were we lied to? Kill the XL-Pipeline

for good.

[valerief]

5. I'm amazed some conservative entrepreneur hasn't bottled and promoted

the "new and exciting Benzeen (sic) Cola." You know, to make benzene a "good" thing in the public's mind. But then today's mainstream media ensures benzene is not in the public mind at all--but Mike Huckabee is.