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Toxicologists: Corexit “Ruptures Red Blood Cells, Causes Internal Bleeding”, "Allows Crude Oil To Penetrate “Into The Cells” and “Every Organ System"
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As I have previously noted,
Corexit is toxic, is less effective than other dispersants, and is
actually worsening the damage
caused by the oil spill.
Now, two toxicologists are saying that
Corexit is much more harmful to
human health and marine life than we've been told.
Specifically
Gulf toxicologist Dr. Susan Shaw - Founder and Director of the Marine
Environmental Research Institute - dove
into the oil spill to examine the chemicals present.
Dr.
Shaw told CNN:
If I can tell you what
happens — because I was in the oil
— to people…
Shrimpers throwing their nets into water… [then]
water from the nets splashed on his skin. …
[He experienced a]
headache that lasted 3 weeks… heart palpitations… muscle spasms… bleeding
from the rectum…
And that’s what that Corexit does, it ruptures
red blood cells, causes internal bleeding, and liver
and kidney damage. …
This stuff is so toxic
combined… not the oil or dispersants alone. …
Very,
very toxic and goes right through skin.
***
The
reason this is so toxic is because of these solvents [from dispersant] that penetrate
the skin of anything that’s going through the dispersed oil takes
the oil into the cells — takes the oil into the
organs… and this stuff is toxic to every organ system in the
body. …
Similarly,
marine biologist and toxicologist Dr. Chris Pincetich - who has an
extensive background in testing the affects of chemicals on fish - says
that Corexit disrupts cell membranes.
He also explains that EPA
toxicity testing for Corexit is woefully inadequate, since EPA testing
for mortality usually only requires a 96-hour
time frame. His doctoral research found that fish that were alive at 96
hours after exposure to pesticide were dead at two weeks, so the
chemicals were considered non-lethal
for the purposes of the test.
Drs.
Shaw and Pincetich are wildlife conservationists. But even industry
scientists working for Exxon
and the manufacturer
of Corexit itself admit that the stuff is toxic.
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I think that several hundred thousand concerned citizens, encircling the White House, making themselves 'heard' by banging rocks against the iron White House fence, would cause a bit of a stir.
Truthfully, I don't have a clue where to start. Peaceful protests don't work. I saw pictures of people holding hands on the beach, but did it accomplish anything? I think to get any real attention, you need a hundred or more people with shotguns and M4 carbines. However, you're then labeled as a whacked out militia.
I don't know where to start, and I think a lot of people feel the same way.
Start at home. Does your spouse understand? Does your family? Volunteer at church or a non-profit. If you are willing to do for others, you will gain a lot of clout. We are going to need each other to get through this mess.
Excellent. This is where it has to start if we want to get anything changed.
Slap him once for me too.
Okay, I don't know the issues, but I like the idea!
@Dr. Sandi
Issues? He's a pathological lying politician (just like all of 'em). Went to school with his dumb unethical ass. I try to avoid fights, but when they find you, duck and jab -- duck and jab -- then a southpaw roundhouse! Don't be afraid to taste your own blood. Yeah, it's not how you were reared, but it's better than dying a thousand deaths. Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
Check out this hilarious blog on our local politics:
http://jacquesbarack.blogspot.com/
Cursive
Eye whip.
I hear that having both feet broken is very painful.
what do you expect us... or me, for that matter, to do?! get off our backs. we have a lot of blogging to do.
@ Augustus and/or Jim_Rockford
Great idea for an oil spill victims fundraiser. Would either of you consider treading water off of Port Fourchon? $10k per hour of water treaded? Jim gets $12k per hour if he wears on Alyeska speedo made by Velobabe. I don't think either of you should do it, but you both seem to have little fear or worry about the Macondo disaster. What ya'll say?
Sure, I'll do it for $10K / hr rate paid to me.
I might buy that old girl a tube of lidocane out of it.
And you accuse me of form over substance. Nice.
Sure, I'll do it. What is the concentration of this toxic red-blood-cell bursting stuff in the waters off of Port Fourchon? I only ask because I didn't see it mentioned in the article above.
Back to your defense of Greg Palast... in his most recent article on his web site, is he asserting that The Alaska Pipeline was shut down in 2006 due to corrosion?
"Jim gets $12k per hour if he wears on Alyeska speedo made by Velobabe."
I gotta say...that's funny right there...but, now I'll have to apply for BP compensation to rid myself of all the mental images ;-)
It gets worse. Corexit disperses Speedos.
@Tuesday
LOL'd on that one then got kinda sick!
An outrage!!! I cannot believe it. How can this be legal? a strict cost/benefit analysis? Cost and benefit to whom? Obviously BP. I am in Houston. My God, this country has gone straight to Hell. Who manufactures Corexit?
British Petroleum has been on a cost cutting addiction for well over 15 years;
How else can you account for killing 15 human lives and injured 180 human lives in the Texas City incident. The majority of those who were killed in that incident were placed in a mustering area for contractor staff performing the turn around at the time, UNDER AN ACTIVE Flare stack that began to rain down overhead burning liquid hydrocarbons.
see for yourself
http://www.csb.gov/newsroom/detail.aspx?nid=215
LOL, Nalco is headquarted in Illinois. Naperville to be exact. Wonder how much money they contributed to O's campaign?
oh, thank you. just so happens their "servicing center" is just up the street from ME. They should be hung!!! I do feel personally damaged by this. I take it very personal. This is not just someone else's backyard anymore. God damn them!!!!
If your point is ..Is this Fascism that Mussolini could blush over , then yes it is!
as a point of reference here was the take away from the Dispersant Use Meeting:
May 27
http://www.crrc.unh.edu/dwg/dwh_dispersants_use_meeting_report.pdf
and some testimony by the Chair of that meeting on May 17
http://transportation.house.gov/Media/file/Full%20Committee/20100519/Kin...
and an NYT blog post by that same person on May 5
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/rules-revolving-doors-...
and finally the NALCO (Corexit) folks quote that same person and many other experts and assorted officials e.g. Thad Allen on their website.
http://www.nalco.com/news-and-events/4259.htm
Bottom line, let's go ahead and use it even though we don't know much about it
PS GW, please keep up what you are doing, the amount of mis/disinformation out there is staggering, big oil and big government are no doubt managing the message on their own websites and in the blogs. My advice is that people should as much as possible seek out primary sources for info and evaluate what is being said by an author (including GW). And beware of the so called experts who will weigh in on blogs such as this claiming to know it all.
Should I already be avoiding the ocean off Miami Beach?
By my calculation, we got at least a couple of weeks, although I prefer Key Biscayne (past the Seaquarium)
Is your opinion on Key Biscayne so vile it necessitated being junked thrice?
Because BP has a speical partnership with Nalco the manufacturer
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Corexit
Big deal, they won't need to use this stuff after this weekend b/c they are going to capture all of the leak. See, Obama was right when he said they would get the leak down to a trickle in a couple of days.
Thx GW!
You know, I never feel comfortable on these sort of things. Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays.
I'll give $30,000 to whoever stops your dot. And we can go from there.
Video it and put it on youtube, and then I'm in.
Frank McCloud: One Rocco more or less isn't worth dying for!+30K
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE
I can not say this enough, thank you for all you are doing!
why even use corexit when crude oil is biodegradable?
http://www.enotes.com/microbiology-encyclopedia/biodegradable-substances
why even use corexit when crude oil is biodegradable?
Texas - Republican. Louisiana - Republican. Mississippi - Republican. Alabama - Republican. Florida - Republican. Any questions?
Yes, I have a question. When faced with the Mega Borg spill, did the State of Texas test bioremediation on the surface slick and assert successfull results?
To Obama, the people on the Gulf Coast are just a bunch of ignorant crackers who will never vote for him anyway.
"Let them eat Corexit."
'Cuz there's money to be made selling Corexit and then more money to be made made fixing the multitude health problems associated with it.
Thank you...someone get's it.
To hide the true damage of the spill no matter the cost to the local communities or ecosystem.
+10000000000000
I second that, Bro Washington.
FIGHT THE POWER!
Thank YOU George, we appreciate everything you're doing to keep us informed, you try and always source your print, even if we aren't getting the info out we need so the experts can give us TRUTH, you're helping us considerably! KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE_9I3awuu0&feature=related
Gotta love the doobie brothers bro;) Happy weekend to ya!
Thank you Ruth, happy trails!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXEpLsooMJ0