Sunday, December 16, 2012

Corexit Increased by 52X Toxicity of Gulf Oil Spill



By Georgia Institute of Technology, Newswise 05 December 12
 
[Excerpted] If the 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during the 2010 Deep Water Horizon spill was a ecological disaster, the two million gallons of dispersant used to clean it up apparently made it even worse - 52-times more toxic. That's according to new research from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico.

The study found that mixing the dispersant with oil increased toxicity of the mixture up to 52-fold over the oil alone. In toxicity tests in the lab, the mixture's effects increased mortality of rotifers, a microscopic grazing animal at the base of the Gulf's food web. The findings are published online by the journal Environmental Pollution and will appear in the February 2013 print edition....

...."Dispersants are preapproved to help clean up oil spills and are widely used during disasters," said UAA's Roberto-Rico Martinez, who led the study. "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."

 
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We see in the BP oil spill the use of scapegoating of low level employees, who surely bear some responsibility, but are merely the foot soldiers of a culture of greed and arrogance. We see in the financial crisis erasure of ...
 
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[excerpted] "A federal judge ruled Wednesday that BP PLC and one of its minority partners in the blown-out Macondo well are liable for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act for their roles in the nation's worst offshore oil ...
 
Jul 25, 2010
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Jul 09, 2011
"BP is arguing that victims of last year's Gulf oil spill should not be paid any more claims for future losses because the areas affected by the spill have recovered and the economy is improving" THIS MAKES ME UTTERLY ILL ...
 
May 31, 2012
[excerpt] "Federal investigators are exploring whether BP PLC representatives lied to Congress about how much oil was leaking after the Deepwater Horizon accident... "...Investigators also have looked into whether engineers ...
 
Mar 05, 2012
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Apr 20, 2012
[excerpted] "TWO years after a series of gambles and ill-advised decisions on a BP drilling project led to the largest accidental oil spill in United States history and the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, ...
 
Jul 28, 2010
EPA Whistleblower Blasts BP Paid Scientists Who Say Oil Gone! http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/oil-is-going-to-be-in-gulf-for-decades-because-of-dispersants-says-epa-expert-video. Kaufman is a senior EPA employee who ...
 
Aug 21, 2011
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Jun 06, 2012
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Oct 11, 2012
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Aug 19, 2010
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Oct 09, 2012
I guess Matt Simmons was correct when he warned that the ocean floor was fractured. http://majiasblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/matt-simmons-is-dead.html. Perhaps the ocean fracturing and methane release are responsible ...
 
 
 
 

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