BP Oil Spill Scientist Bob Naman: Seafood Still Not Safe

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Run time: 06:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3VdxvMnDls   Posted on YouTube: March 02, 2011 By YouTube Member: ProjectGulfImpact Views on YouTube: 198   Posted on DU: March 03, 2011 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 597

 
While I know some DUers discount Naiman entirely, he has lots to say about testing of Gulf water and whether or not one should be eating the seafood. If I recall the main objection to him was the story of the sample that exploded in his lab. Is his explanation of the possibility of methane gas or corexit causing the reaction at all plausible? What say you DUers in white lab coats?



from projectgulfimpact:

Robert Naman is an analytical chemist with over 30 years of experience and the president of Act Laboratory Inc in Mobile, AL. ACT is a private company categorized under Testing Laboratories. ACT labs offers: Soil Testing Labs, Standards Testing Labs, Independent Testing Laboratory, Pacific Testing Labs and Environmental Test Labs. Naman has been instrumental in much of the testing that has happened in the Gulf after the oil spill.

In the latest Project Gulf Impact video, Naman discusses what the EPA did with the acceptable PAH levels. He also talks about recent water testing he did in Orange Beach, AL, which were some of the highest levels he's found to date. Naman also has an incredibly interesting take on seafood consumption and whether or not he will still eat seafood out of the Gulf.

From the Huffington Post from one of his most recent samplings: "Naman tested various samples for petroleum, and said he expected to find no more than 5 parts per million (ppm). Instead, Naman found results that far exceed his expectations: 16 ppm from waters at Katrina Key, and 29 ppm at Orange Beach.

The most shocking results came from a sample of water collected near a boom at Dauphin Island Marina. When Naman combined the sample with an organic solvent that separates the oil from the water, which he did for all the other samples as well, it exploded in his lab, breaking the container and destroying the sample in the process. Naman thinks the reaction was caused by the presence of methane gas or Corexit, the dispersant that BP has been using in the Gulf."