BP Lies....

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the topic is about oil in the gulf, dumbass, pull your panties up

Guess you can't read, explains your excess of stupid.

 

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A new study finds that adding Corexit 9500A to Macondo oil—as BP did in the course of trying to disperse its 2010 oilspill disaster—made the mixture 52 times more toxic than oil alone. The results are from toxicology tests in the lab and appear in the scientific journal Environmental Pollution.

Using oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout and Corexit the researchers tested the toxicity of oil, dispersant, and a mixture of oil and dispersant on five strains of rotifers—the lab rats of marine toxicology testing. Among the results:

The oil-dispersant mixture killed adult rotifers

As little as 2.6 percent of the mixture inhibited egg hatching by 50 percent

The inhibition of egg hatching in bottom sediments is particularly ominous because rotifer eggs hatch each spring to live as adults in the water column where they are important food sources for larval and juvenile fish, for shrimp, crabs and other marine life in estuarine and shoreline ecosystems—including fisheries humans depend on.

"Dispersants are preapproved to help clean up oil spills and are widely used during disasters," said lead author Roberto-Rico Martinez currently at the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico. "But we have a poor understanding of their toxicity. Our study indicates the increase in toxicity may have been greatly underestimated following the Macondo well explosion."

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/06/dramatic-decline-microscopic-life-bps-oiled-beaches

Then there is the human toll...

Shrimpers who were exposed to a mixture of oil and Corexit dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico suffered severe symptoms such as muscle spasms, heart palpitations, headaches that last for weeks and bleeding from the rectum, according to a marine toxicologist who issued the warning Friday on a cable news network.

Dr. Susan Shaw, founder and director of the Marine Environmental Research Institute, said during a CNN broadcast that after personally diving the oil spill in late May, a “very fiery sore throat” plagued her from inhaling fumes coming off the water. Because she was covered from head to toe in a protective suit, Dr. Shaw was spared direct exposure.

Shrimpers who had bare-skin contact with the mixture of oil and Corexit, she said, were not so lucky.


During her segment with anchor Rick Sanchez, Dr. Shaw specified that stories shrimpers had told her were from when BP was deploying “the more toxic” Corexit 9527. BP has allegedly switched to Corexit 9500, which Dr. Shaw has also taken to task in a widely-publicized essay.

The company responsible for producing the various Corexit formulas is Nalco, Co., which was created by former members of the boards of directors at BP and Exxon. Their product is essentially by the oil industry, for the oil industry. That’s why, even in the face of an alternative like Dispersit which is half as toxic as Corexit, Nalco’s product is still in much greater supply.

Dr. Shaw offered a stark analysis of Corexit 9500 in her piece for The New York Times.

“Though all dispersants are potentially dangerous when applied in such volumes, Corexit [9500] is particularly toxic,” she wrote. “It contains petroleum solvents and a chemical that, when ingested, ruptures red blood cells and causes internal bleeding. It is also bioaccumulative, meaning its concentration intensifies as it moves up the food chain.”

“BP refused an Environmental Protection Agency order in late May to significantly cut down its use of dispersants, as well as another to find and use a less toxic substance than Corexit, saying that it ‘continues to believe that Corexit EC9500A is the best alternative’ available in the necessary amount,” a blog with the Natural Resources Defense Council noted.

The EPA lists Corexit 9500 as “useful on oil spills in salt water” and prescribes an application of “2 to 10 U.S. gallons per acre”. They further said in a media advisory that Corexit 9500 will “biodegrade.”

The EPA’s description is only slightly less enthusiastic than a list of Corexit talking points featured on Nalco’s Web site, which claims (among other things) …

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/07/...osed-oilcorexit-mix-suffered-bleeding-rectum/

Yes, we've been poisoned and will continue to be.....just like what fracking is doing....and the tar sands.

Oh, and while I'm at it....only a complete ass wipe would think cock is the answer to everything. LMAO

 

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Nailed by the Mail - British Polluters lied:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...water-Horizon-disaster.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

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i love how rune, bijou will bring up a publican when someone points out the faults of democrats

but now they are crying like little babies because someone does the same thing about oil companies

LOL

 

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Then there is the human toll...



Yes, we've been poisoned and will continue to be.....just like what fracking is doing....and the tar sands.

Oh, and while I'm at it....only a complete ass wipe would think cock is the answer to everything. LMAO

I am not sure if you have any idea what Corexit is used for, it is a mixture of different solvents and surfactants which are there to break up and emulsify the oil. The main surfactant used is Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate which is also used to make stools softer and easier to pass. It is also used for the symptomatic treatment of constipation, and in painful anorectal conditions such as haemorrhoids and anal fissures for people avoiding straining during bowel movements. How amazing they are given one of the major constituents of Corexit to patients orally to loosen shit!! There are a few people on here that are a pain in the arse who could use a dose or two.

 

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BP lied.

They paid a record fine and face criminal charges.

They continue to lie.

http://www.newschief.com/article/20...gBlog-BP-Television-Ads-Misleading-Consumers-

 

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I am not sure if you have any idea what Corexit is used for, it is a mixture of different solvents and surfactants which are there to break up and emulsify the oil. The main surfactant used is Dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate which is also used to make stools softer and easier to pass. It is also used for the symptomatic treatment of constipation, and in painful anorectal conditions such as haemorrhoids and anal fissures for people avoiding straining during bowel movements. How amazing they are given one of the major constituents of Corexit to patients orally to loosen shit!! There are a few people on here that could use a dose or two.

It is amazing how you, a supposed scientist, ignore the evidence and then try to distract by pointing out a use of one component of a toxic mix. You should know better. Every real scientist knows that the sum of the products is entirely different than the individual components. A perfect example is water; hydrogen and oxygen both being highly toxic in pure form yet almost entirely benign when combined as water. WTF

 

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The perfidious Albionite tried to derail the thread and failed.

People died and BP lied.