Natural Gas Fracking Polluting Drinking Water With Corexit’s Main Neurotoxin Pesticide Ingredient
An Investigation Into Feds Coverup Of Natural Gas Fracking Reveals Drilling Pollutes The Drinking Water With Corexit's Main Neurotoxin Pesticide Ingredient.
Oil spill’s health effects raise concern, but are unproven, commissioner says
Oil spill’s health effects raise concern, but are unproven, commissioner says By David Hammer Times-Picayune Original Article Coastal residents finally found a receptive audi…
Big Oil Plans Party Called Clean Gulf To Celebrate Gulf Rape — Corexit Protest October 19, 20 Tampa Florida
Big Oil is throwing a party for getting away with raping the Gulf but residents have planned a protest to raise awareness of the danger's of Corexit and to push lawmakers to ban it. If you can attend then RSVP here. If not pass it on to everyone you know.
BP Mercenaries In Fatigues Spraying Dispersants From Carolina Skiffs (Photos)
Some people questioned the credibility of bloggers who ran the story and the credibility of the chemist who reported "BP mercenaries in fatigues were spraying dispersants from Carolina Skiffs" as part of black ops. New photographs reveal the truth after all.
What’s Going On In The Gulf?
What's Going On In The Gulf? While the mainstream media coverage has subsided the truth toll of the damage is just beginning to surface.
EXPLICIT: “Brown SH*T leaking out of his ears for 4 months”, legs have holes the size of pencils — Dispersant blamed (VIDEO)
Spill into Washington, Kindra Arnesen, September 5, 2010:
Rally in Washington D.C.
YouTube Video
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Gulf Oil Refuses to Stay Hidden Underwater
BP and the government decided that millions of gallons of dispersants should be used on the Gulf oil spill to sink and hide the oil.They succeeded in sinking it. As ABC, CBS and NPR note, huge quantities of oil are blanketing the ocean floor, killing ...
Starfish kill in Barataria Bay occurred just days before massive fishkill — In same area
Starfish kill from April 27 (AP)
The recent massive fishkill in Plaquemines Parish . . . → Read More: Starfish kill in Barataria Bay occurred just days before massive fishkill — In same area
MYSTERY SLIME: Commercial fisherman spots “substance he had never seen before by the docks in Bayou la Batre, AL” — “Caused by oil and dispersants” (PHOTOS)
Green ooze in Bayou La Batre, Flicker, September 14, 2010:
Photo credit: Ada McMahon
<p . . . → Read More: MYSTERY SLIME: Commercial fisherman spots “substance he had never seen before by the docks in Bayou la Batre, AL” — “Caused by oil and dispersants” (PHOTOS)
Evidence Mounts of BP Spraying Toxic Dispersants
By Dahr Jamail Truth-Out Shirley and Don Tillman, residents of Pass Christian, Mississippi, have owned shrimp boats, an oyster boat and many pleasure boats. They spent much time on the Gulf of Mexico before working in BP’s Vessels Of Opportunity (VOO) program looking for and trying to clean up oil. Don decided to work in [...]
Oil Could Reach Atlantic This Fall; Oil-and-Dispersant “Experiment” Widens
New estimates predict that oil from the BP spill could reach the Atlantic Ocean this fall, although not in the sort of visible levels likely to draw much fire. But the real concern is that the oil and possibly dispersant will also enter the North Atlantic food chain, further expanding the scope of BP’s toxic…
Thick Layer of Oil on Gulf Floor “Stretching for Miles in All Directions…”
There’s a very big, very distressing story from NPR this weekend about the discovery of “a substantial layer of oily sediment” in the Gulf “… stretching for dozens of miles in all directions.” And the oil has been found at seafloor depths ranging from 300 feet, all the way down to 4,000 feet. The report focuses…
Los Alamos Lab & German Researchers: “Oil released by the Deepwater Horizon spill could reach the western North Atlantic Ocean by November”
Deepwater Horizon oil could reach Atlantic Ocean, EnvironmentalResearchWeb, September 6, 2010:
Oil released by . . . → Read More: Los Alamos Lab & German Researchers: “Oil released by the Deepwater Horizon spill could reach the western North Atlantic Ocean by November”
After Valdez: The shocking story of an Alaskan town NEVER touched by oil
Bound by oil: Gulf Coast residents seek lessons from Exxon Valdez, CNN, September . . . → Read More: After Valdez: The shocking story of an Alaskan town NEVER touched by oil
Biogeochemist: “Marine Snow” may be caused by dispersants — Others agree
Oxygen “sags” and oil “snow storm” near spill site, Nature.com (The Great Beyond), . . . → Read More: Biogeochemist: “Marine Snow” may be caused by dispersants — Others agree
FALLOUT: Researchers find “layer of oil buried about 3 cm deep” 30 km from wellhead; Bottom-burrowing creatures appeared to be “NUKED”, only things alive are the microbes
Oxygen “sags” and oil “snow storm” near spill site, Nature.com (The Great Beyond), . . . → Read More: FALLOUT: Researchers find “layer of oil buried about 3 cm deep” 30 km from wellhead; Bottom-burrowing creatures appeared to be “NUKED”, only things alive are the microbes
Dispersants Can Make Chemicals from Oil Airborne … Exposing Coastal Residents to Toxins
PhD toxicologist Chris Pincetich says that - even with a very good pilot spraying Corexit - the dispersant drifts onto land:(Dr. Pincetich also says that the dispersant evaporates and then moves around).The air force sprayed Corexit from C-130 military...
Blood Tests Show Elevated Level of Toxic Hydrocarbons in Gulf Residents
A number of different chemists are finding elevated levels of toxic hydrocarbons in the bloodstream of Gulf coast residents.
What is most disturbing about these results is that people who simply live near the water are showing higher than normal levels of toxic chemicals. These are not fishermen, shrimpers, oil workers or others who work on the water.
Jerry Cope recently wrote about his test results in a must-read essay at Huffington Post.
Several Gulf coast residents described their test results in the following video:
And the Intel Hub has uploaded some of the other test reports.
The local ABC news affiliate in Pensacola, Florida - ABC3 Wear - covered the story:
Several residents of Orange Beach say the oil spill has been making them sick...and they have the test results to prove it.
Gerry Cope, Margaret Carrouth and Robin Young were all feeling the same symptoms of headaches, watery eyes, and breathing problems...
All three had blood samples taken at the beginning of August...
Tests revealed each had elevated levels of the Hydrocarbons Ethyl Benzene and Xylene.
Bob Naman, a chemist out of Mobile, analyzed the results.
"He shows three times the amount you typically find in someone's blood."
"These people are from different backgrounds, and from different walks of life, all showing same similar organic compounds in blood, says to me its very likely in the air."
It is well known that oil fires can increase the levels of ethyl benzene and xylene in people's bloodstream. For example, in studying Gulf War illness, the National Defense Research Institute
found that exposure to the Kuwaiti oil fires set by Saddam Hussein increased ethyl benzene levels in firefighters more than 10 times - from .052 to .53 micrograms per liter - and more than doubled xylene levels:
Table 3.6
VOC Concentrations in Blood in U.S. Personnel
(µg/l)
| VOC | Kuwait City Personnel (Group I) | Firefighters (Group II) | U.S. Reference (Control) |
| Benzene | 0.035 | 0.18 | 0.066 |
| Ethyl-benzene | 0.075 | 0.53 | 0.052 |
| m,p-Xylene | 0.14 | 0.41 | 0.18 |
| o-Xylene | 0.096 | 0.26 | 0.10 |
| Toluene | 0.24 | 1.5 | 0.30 |
A geochemist from East Carolina University - who was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation - says that evaporation and storms can carry toxic hydrocarbons from the Gulf oil and dispersants inland:
YouTube Video
As I noted last week, scientists have found that applying Corexit to Gulf crude oil releases 35 times more toxic chemicals into the water column than would be released with crude alone.
Is it possible that the massive application of Corexit dispersant is creating a situation analogous to ongoing oil fires: ongoing release of large quantities of toxic components of crude oil?
It is important not to be alarmist about the dangers of the oil/dispersant mixture to human health, but it is equally important to fully study the issue, and not to let politics get in the way of science.
Alien Forest, Alien Ocean, Alien Sky
By Rady Ananda — Contributing Writer Activist Post Imagine our declining pollinators – bees, moths, butterflies and bats – coming upon thousands of acres of toxic trees, genetically engineered so that every cell in the tree exudes pesticide, from crown to root. Imagine a world without pollinators. Without seed dispersers. Without soil microbes. It would [...]
73 Shrimp Isn’t a Sample Size…It’s Lunch! NOAA Reopens Waters Based on Tiny Sampling of Shrimp
The reopening of 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to shrimping and fishing last Thursday (Sept. 2) brings the seafood safety issue once again to the fore. And those of us pushing for more seafood testing are welcoming another strong voice to our ranks: Gina Solomon, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Ms.…
