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Senior EPA Analyst: "Government [Agencies] Have Been Sock Puppets for BP In This Cover Up"
I have previously noted
that dispersants are being used to cover up the amount of oil spilled,
and that they are making the effects of the oil spill worse. I have
also pointed out that dispersant Corexit is extremely toxic to people.
See this
and this.
The
senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency
Response - and former the EPA ombudsman's chief investigator - agrees,
telling Democracy Now today:
Corexit is one of a
number of dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil
and force it down the water column so
that it’s invisible to the eye. In this case, these dispersants
were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons so far, to
hide the magnitude of the spill and save BP money. And the government—both EPA, NOAA, etc.—have
been sock puppets for BP in this cover-up. Now, by hiding the
amount of spill, BP is saving hundreds of millions, if not billions, of
dollars in fines, and so, from day one, there was tremendous economic
incentive to use these dispersants to hide the magnitude of the gusher
that’s been going on for almost three months.***
We have
people, wildlife—we have dolphins that are hemorrhaging. People who
work near it are hemorrhaging internally. And that’s what dispersants
are supposed to do. EPA now is taking the position that they really
don’t know how dangerous it is, even though if you read the label, it
tells you how dangerous it is. And, for example, in the Exxon Valdez case, people who worked
with dispersants, most of them are dead now. The average death age is
around fifty. It’s very dangerous, and it’s an economic—it’s an
economic protector of BP, not an environmental protector of the public.***
Who
saves money by using these toxic dispersants? Well, it’s BP. But then
the next question—I’ve only seen one article that describes it—who owns BP? And I think when you
look and see who owns BP, you find that it’s the majority ownership, a
billion shares, is a company called BlackRock
that was created, owned and run by a gentleman named Larry Fink. And Vanity
Fair just did recently an article about Mr. Fink and his connections with Mr. Geithner, Mr. Summers
and others in the administration. So I think what’s needed, we
now know that there’s a cover-up. Dispersants are being used. Congress,
at least three Congress folks—Congressman Markey, Congressman Nadler
and Senator Mikulski—are on the case. And I think the media now has to
follow the money, just as they did in Watergate, and tell the American
people who’s getting money for poisoning the millions of people in the
Gulf.***
The sole
purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a cover-up going for BP
to try to hide the volume of oil that has been released and save them
hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of fines.
That’s the purpose of using the dispersants, not to protect the public health or
environment. Quite the opposite.
I have also
previously pointed
out the similarities between the government's handling of 9/11 and
the oil gusher. Kaufman gives some insight about the parallels:
[Question]
You’ve made comparisons between Corexit, the use of Corexit and hiding
BP’s liability, and what happened at Ground Zero after the attacks of
September 11th, Hugh Kaufman.
[Kaufman] Yeah, I was one of the
people who—well, I did. I did the
ombudsman investigation on Ground Zero, where EPA made false statements
about the safety of the air, which has since, of course, been proven
to be false. Consequently, you have the heroes, the workers there, a
large percentage of them are sick right now, not even ten years later,
and most of them will die early because of respiratory problems,
cancer, etc., because of EPA’s false statements.
And
you’ve got the same thing going on in the Gulf, EPA administrators
saying the same thing, that the air is safe and the water is safe. And
the administrator misled Senator Mikulski on that issue in the hearings
you talked about. And basically, the problem is dispersants mixed with
oil and air pollution. EPA, like in 9/11—I did that investigation nine
years ago—was not doing adequate and
proper testing. Same thing with OSHA with the workers, they’re using
mostly BP’s contractor. And BP’s contractor for doing air testing is
the company that’s used by companies to prove they don’t have a
problem.
Here's a video of the interview:
And see this. Note regarding the Attorney Kerry Kennedy claimed on CNN However, I wrote to Ms. Kennedy was
Exxon Valdez deaths. A test application
of Corexit was used in the initial response to the Exxon Valdez oil
spill. However, the full-scale use of Corexit was not approved
(pages 56 & 69). The workers who were part of the test
application, and those who subsequently worked in and around the test
area, could have been exposed to Corexit.
that almost all of the cleanup crew working on the Exxon Valdez oil
spill are now dead, and that the average life expectancy for an
Exxon Valdez oil spill worker is around 51 years, 26.9 fewer years
than the average American.
toxicologist Dr. Ricki Ott - who has blown the whistle on the BP cleanup
(see this and this),
and who was present during the Valdez cleanup - to ask whether
Kennedy's statement was correct. I received the following
reply from Dr. Ott's personal assistant:
mistaken.
For more information, check www.rikiott.com/spillinfo.php
. You will see that out of a workforce of 11,000, Exxon documented
6,722 cases of Upper Respiratory Illness. In 2003, a Yale grad student
conducted a pilot study that showed roughly 1/3 of the sample, taken
from the list of workers who reported URIs during the EVOS cleanup,
reported lingering symptoms.
There has been no
epidemiology study, so no statistics exist as to the mortality rate of
EVOS workers, to our knowledge.
I have no idea whether Kaufman and Kennedy
know something that Ott doesn't.
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I understand English pretty well. I heard you. I am asking if there is a scaled diagram or drawing in circulation of what it looks like. Also, as many coordinates of the wellhead as I find, they are all off from both each other and the originally proposed well locations by several (5-10) seconds in both directions, and I am just curious if there is an OFFICIAL value provided. The proposed well locations were only a few hundred feet away from each other to begin with.
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CD ... very interesting.
My curiousity goes to what direction the 2-mile seep is (north, south, etc.) from the oil cap ... From the following picture, it's apparent that if it's due East, then it is likely from a different prospect (MC253):
Do you know which direction the 2-mile seep is???
I always said that if you want the truth, ask a local!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI-bYawDUeE
this is one of those super important posts which might cost the beloved george washington his life....
the criminal enterprise known as the obama administration is just as evil as the bush crime syndicate.
blackrock and bp should be executed and so should its senior management.
9/11 was a usa / mossad intelligence job. that's why rahm is chief of staff.
blackrock also has ties to carlyle group.....that's a huge tie which needs to see the light of day. and carlyle group is at the epicenter of the fake war on terror.....
obama is an indonesian lying asshole who will do whatever his puppet masters tell him to do....he is starting to make baby bush look only half way criminal by comparison....
The implications of your story presented here if even 50% accurate is one fuckin damning indictment of criminality that borders on what is claimed by the Jews in the WWII.The blatent (sp) abuse of governmental authority contemplated by what is alleged is stunning. Milestones
Business as usual here. They are all interconnected. Look at the history of Corexit -- Nalco -- owned by Goldman Sachs. Just a bunch of Pirates of Poison in the Gulf.
Great post.. thx.
mr. Washington, when are you going to realize that one man, or 100K men don't matter, mankind matters.
Isn't that what bad guys say before they murder innocent people?
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