No Dead-Zones in Gulf From BP Dispersant & Oil-Eating Microbes
Corexit Oil Dispersant - The Health Menace That May Keep ‘Giving and Giving’
EPA Directs BP to Search for Eco-Friendly Oil Dispersants
New BP Oil Spill Report - 80 Percent of Oil Still in Gulf
Caesarstone: You know Caesar would buy this!
Reclaimed BP Oil in Your Fuel Tank?
No VOC is not really No VOC - How Can We Rely on What We Hear?
BP Stops One Oil Leak As Oil Slick Continues Towards Shore
Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears could make for better solar panels
Gulf Oil Spill Containment Dome a Bust – Now What?
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens East Coast Shoreline
BP Oil Spill Timeline - Ongoing Disaster
Carbon Nanotubes to be used to directly create AC power eliminating need for DC-AC convers
Demo Air Net - Simple Solution to Indoor Air Pollution
Solar Panel Production Toxins may Rule them Out as a "Green" Solution
Oil Spill Chemical Dispersant is Toxic to Sea Life – Necessary Evil?
With the leaky BP well belching more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico, the immediate environmental concern is stopping the noxious mess from reaching the coast. To that end, chemical dispersants are being sprayed over huge areas of the oil slick. That the chemical dispersants are themselves a health hazard is a ‘given’. This is a tough pill for environmentalists and other like-minded people to swallow, but what other choice remains?
The clean-up crews are using a product called Corexit made by Nalco Company. The dispersant works by binding with the oil causing the slick to break up into droplets that sink below the surface. These droplets can then be carried away by the current. The next questions, of course, are: Carried away to where? What about the sea creatures that accidentally or otherwise ingest these droplets? What’s in these droplets, anyway?
Some of the ingredients are public information. However, other ingredients are proprietary. These are secret ingredients in a product that the British government dropped for safety reasons more than ten years ago. Even more disturbing is the report that another, far less lethal product called Dispersit was tested by the EPA at the same time as Corexit. No only did Dispersit prove lower in toxicity, it was also almost twice as effective (Corexit 54.7 percent, Dispersit 100%).
So, what killer do we choose – the one above the surface or the one below?
Recommended for Further Reading:
- No Dead-Zones in Gulf From BP Dispersant & Oil-Eating Microbes
- Corexit Oil Dispersant - The Health Menace That May Keep ‘Giving and Giving’
- EPA Directs BP to Search for Eco-Friendly Oil Dispersants
- New BP Oil Spill Report - 80 Percent of Oil Still in Gulf
- Caesarstone: You know Caesar would buy this!
- Reclaimed BP Oil in Your Fuel Tank?
- No VOC is not really No VOC - How Can We Rely on What We Hear?
- BP Stops One Oil Leak As Oil Slick Continues Towards Shore
- Bacteria taught to spin microscopic gears could make for better solar panels
- Gulf Oil Spill Containment Dome a Bust – Now What?
- Gulf Oil Spill Threatens East Coast Shoreline
- BP Oil Spill Timeline - Ongoing Disaster
- Carbon Nanotubes to be used to directly create AC power eliminating need for DC-AC convers
- Demo Air Net - Simple Solution to Indoor Air Pollution
- Solar Panel Production Toxins may Rule them Out as a "Green" Solution
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You're right! There's actually an alternative. The oil should have been properly boomed and suctioned through a large collection vehicle like a Super tanker, but no! They had to use poisonous substance instead. What actually baffles me is that scientists carrying stomach content and tissue assay claim to be looking for traces of oil. Why can't they look for traces of dispersants and other volitile (and now soluble) crude components, and the resultant chemical combinants that have been made? It's almost unbelievable!
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