BP’s Dispersants Didn’t Help Break Down Oil From Spill
Published on Thursday, November 12, 2015
by Oil Change International
BP’s Dispersants Didn’t Help Break Down Oil From Spill
by Andy Rowell
Once again the veterans of the Exxon Valdez have been proved right, after their warnings about the use of toxic dispersants during the subsequent Deepwater Horizon oil spill look to have been vindicated by new academic research.
In the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater spill in 2010, with the oil giant under unprecedented public and political pressure to clean up the vast spill, BP started spraying the ocean with the toxic dispersant Corexit.
At the time, I and many others warned that this could be counter-productive.
In May 2010, on this blog I quoted Riki Ott, a long-term critic of the oil industry and veteran of the Exxon Valdez disaster who cautioned against the use of Corexit and other dispersants.
At the time Dr Ott said: “This is like treating cancer with something you don’t know is going to work or not, or you don’t know whether the cure is worse than the harm. You don’t know anything.”
More:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/11/12/bps-dispersants-didnt-help-break-down-oil-spill
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No way! Thank you for posting this, JL. 
