Same toxic chemicals that poisoned Exxon Valdez clean-up workers now used in the Gulf!

[katanalori]

Same toxic chemicals that poisoned Exxon Valdez clean-up workers now used in the Gulf!

The LA Times reported in November 2001:

There are others whom almost no one talks about, although unlike the birds, most of them are still alive. They are the people who scraped oil off the beaches, skimmed it off the top of the water, hosed it off rocks.* Workers who stood in the brown foam 18 hours a day, who came back to their sleeping barges with oil matted in their hair, ate sandwiches speckled with oil, steered boats through a brown hydrocarbon haze that looked like the smog from hell.

After that summer, some found oil traces in their lungs, in their blood cells, in the fatty tissue of their buttocks. They got treated for headaches, nausea, chemical burns and breathing problems, and went home. But some never got well.

Steve Cruikshank of Wasilla, Alaska, has headaches that go on for days. Two years ago, he was hospitalized when his lungs nearly stopped working. "The doctor said, 'I'm going to give you the strongest antibiotic known to man, and you're either going to survive or not survive. I don't know what's wrong with you.' What's wrong is, I haven't felt right since that oil spill."

The citizen website "http://valdezlink.com" explains that 2-Butoxyethanol apparently played a major role 1989 in Alaska.


A factsheet (PDF) about this substance explains:


EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE:
The substance irritates the eyes, the skin, and the respiratory tract
Exposure could cause central nervous system depression and liver and kidney damage.

EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM OR REPEATED EXPOSURE:
The liquid defats the skin.
The substance may have effects on the haematopoietic system, resulting in blood disorders.



BP is currently using Corexit 9500 and 9527 in unprecedently large quantities in the Gulf of Mexico.

MUCH MORE info (and video) HERE:

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/06/bribes-behind-drill-baby-drill-exposed.html

[Merchant Marine]

1. If I was working on one of those boats in the gulf

I'd be ashore right now. No amount of pay is worth eating, drinking and breathing those chemicals. Every ship out there that is running its watermakers is sucking up incredible amounts of toxins.

[trof]

3. Not if you had a family to feed.

If you could get a job with BP you'd be out there in the muck and the crap so you could pay the mortgage and the light bill and put food on your family (as a recent awlman CEO of these Uninna States once said).
:-(

[Merchant Marine]

6. That's why I'm staying single until I'm done with sailing

[cwydro]

2. k and r

[trof]

4. We're using the same 'technology' we used 30 years ago.

:eyes:

[katanalori]

5. yes, we are.

No govt. funding for research and development under Bush, and the Corporate world saw no need for R&D due to deregulation.

[Karenina]

7. Please, por favor, bitte... Check out this link in PV

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x477788

Drew Wheelan is throwing down the gauntlet. Let's do support him.

SOMEBODY MAKE THEM STOP USING DISPERSANTS!!!