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Major Paper : Canada Government Covered Up “Massive Amounts Of Radiation In Air”

Japan Nuclear Radiation Fallout Forecast For US West Coast On April 6th, 2010

A Major Canadian Paper Reports That The Government Covered Up Massive Amounts Of Radioactive Material From Fukushima In Canadian Air" And Are Continuing To Manipulate Radiation Monitoring Data.

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56 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 4, 2011 at 11:06 pm

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…

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by admin - January 13, 2011 at 7:24 am

Outrage Over Cleanup Worker Health Impacts…And An Inexcusable Lack of Long-Term Monitoring

“Outrage” is a word that should be used sparingly when speaking of the BP oil spill and the response to it. When an enormously wealthy multinational corporation repeatedly low-balls oil-flow estimates, pumps 2 million gallons of toxic dispersant into the food chain, drags its feet on paying victim claims while throwing $100 million at PR,…

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Stuart Smith - September 15, 2010 at 5:45 pm

NEW STUDY: Long-Term Health Effects Could Be Grave for Cleanup Workers

We can finally stop saying we “have no idea” of the long-term health effects for cleanup workers involved in the BP spill response. A new study out of Spain, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, details findings from a 2002 spill off Spain’s northwest coast – and there are a host of disturbing concerns…

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Stuart Smith - September 14, 2010 at 11:32 am

No Safe Harbor on Gulf Coast; Human Blood Tests Show Dangerous Levels of Toxic Exposure

Huffington Post By Jerry Cope Even as BP and US government officials continue to declare the oil spill over at Mississippi Canyon 252 and the cleanup operation an unqualified success, for the first time blood tests on sickened humans have shown signs of exposure to high levels of toxic chemicals related to crude oil.

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3 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alex Thomas - September 3, 2010 at 12:29 am

No Safe Harbor on Gulf Coast; Human Blood Tests Show Dangerous Levels of Toxic Exposure

Even as BP and US government officials continue to declare the oil spill over at Mississippi Canyon 252 and the cleanup operation an unqualified success, for the first time blood tests on sickened humans have shown signs of exposure to high levels of toxic chemicals from the spill

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1 comment - What do you think?  Posted by Stuart Smith - September 2, 2010 at 4:25 pm

LSU Research Finds Dispersants Speed Up Bioaccumlation of BP Gulf Oil Spill Toxins In the Food Chain

LSU Research finds that Dispersants Speed Up Bioaccumlations of BP Gulf Oil Spill Toxins In the Food Chain

Research being conducted by LSU shows that byproducts of dispersants bioaccumulate in the food chain and also speed up the bioaccumulatoin of other BP Gulf Oil spill toxins in Gulf fish.

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3 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - August 23, 2010 at 2:41 am

BP Gulf Oil Spill Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil

Dispersant and oil in Gulf

Break out of chronic health problems in Gulf Of Mexico from BP Gulf Oil Spill blamed on toxic dispersants.

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6 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Tips - August 15, 2010 at 12:15 pm

The Amount Of Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit Sprayed By BP Tops 1 Million Gallons

Neurotoxin Pesticide Corexit is a Biohazard

The amount of the toxic dispersant Corexit, which is a neurotoxin pesticide, sprayed into the Gulf of Mexico by BP to fight the Gulf oil spill surpasses 1 million gallons

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166 comments - What do you think?  Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 5, 2010 at 6:56 am

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