Gulf Oil Spill: BP Trying To Hide Millions of Gallons of Toxic Oil?
BP Embraces Exxon’s Toxic Dispersant, Ignores Safer Alternative
It has been confirmed that the dispersal agent being used by BP and the government is Corexit 9500, a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, IL. Their stock took a sharp jump, up more than 18% at its highest point of the day today, after it was announced that their product is the one being used in the Gulf. Nalco’s CEO, Erik Frywald, expressed their commitment to “helping the people and environment of the Gulf Coast recover as rapidly as possible.” It may be that the best way to help would be to remove their product from the fray. Take a look at some of the facts about Corexit 9500:
A report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. entitled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” states that “Corexit 9500, Corexit 9527, and Corexit 9580 have moderate toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans and mollusks (LC50 or EC50 – 1.6 to 100 ppm*). It goes on to say that decreasing water temperatures in lab tests showed decreased toxicity, a lowered uptake of the dispersant. Unfortunately, we’re going to be seeing an increase in temperatures, not a decrease. Amongst the other caveats is that the study is species-specific, that other animals may be more severely affected, silver-sided fish amongst them.
Oil is toxic at 11 ppm while Corexit 9500 is toxic at only 2.61 ppm; Corexit 9500 is four times as toxic as the oil itself. Sure, a lot less of it is being introduced, but that’s still a flawed logical perspective, because it’s not a “lesser of two evils” scenario. BOTH are going into the ocean water.
The lesser of two evils seems to be a product called Dispersit, manufactured by Polychem, a division of U.S. Polychemical Corporation. In comparison, water-based Dispersit is toxic at 7.9-8.2 ppm; Dispersit holds about one third of the toxicity that Corexit 9500 presents. Dispersit is a much less harmful water-based product which is both EPA approved and the U.S. Coast Guard’s NCP list. So why isn’t it being used?
We spoke with Bruce Gebhardt at Polychem Marine Products, asked him if Dispersit was being used in the Gulf Oil Spill situation. “Very little,” he replied. When asked why, the impression was that the government had used Corexit 9500 in the past, and was going with what they know — no matter how dangerous that might prove to be.
Dispersit has a demonstrated effectiveness of 100% on the lighter South Louisiana crude, and 40% on Pruhoe Bay’s heavier crude. Exxon’s Corexit 9500 is just 55% effective on SL and 55% effective on PB. On an average, Dispersit is 70% effective, and may prove 100% effective, while 9500 is an average of 50% effective, with a maximum effective use of just 55%. Corexit 9500 is a harsh petroleum-based solvent which is dangerous to people and sea life. Dispersit’s human health effect is “slight to none.” Whether or not a dispersal agent is a wise move, the question remaining unanswered is: Why is Corexit 9500 is being used at all, when the water-based Dispersit is available, markedly more effective and less toxic? Follow the money.
Dispersal of the oil does not eliminate it, nor does it decrease the toxicity of the oil. It just breaks it up into small particles, where it becomes less visible. It’s still there, spewing toxicity at an even greater rate (due to higher surface area.) But now it’s pretty much impossible to skim or trap or vacuum or even soak up at the shoreline, because most of it will never make it to the shoreline. Instead, that toxic crude oil AND the dispersant will be spread all over the ocean’s waters. This is why introducing such a product into the crude oil as it comes out from the pipe is a very bad idea for the ocean.
It may not be pretty, but if the oil makes it to the shore, it can be soaked up, cleaned up. To “disperse” it means it will NEVER be cleaned up. It will just stay out there, polluting and poisoning the ocean, her inhabitants, and all the food we take from it. It’s unwise to be using Corexit 9500 at all, but introducing it to the oil as it leaves the broken pipe is approaching madness. Mr. Gebhardt agrees that the oil should be contained, and what has been leaked should be allowed to come to shore where it can be removed from the ocean by less toxic means.
BP’s use of Corexit 9500 on the oil before it rises to the surface seems to be a deliberate attempt to mask the poison, to cover up that it continues to flow out from the ocean’s floor, while making it impossible to recover. In short, BP and Exxon want to spread the toxic oil throughout the oceans of the world, pollute everywhere, rather than allow it to be seen coming to shore where BP would have to pay for its containment and clean-up. It’s our job to keep them from getting away with sweeping this ugly mess under the surface.
Research, Editorial, and Opinion Submitted to the Protect The Ocean Blog by John Taylor
re. Corexit Chemical Dispersant Agent
The media can not report what can not be seen on the surface. Out of sight = out of the press – no more oil spill!
MS gulf coast is beginning to experience dead sea turtles (20) and saltwater catfish and other finfishes along beaches since 29th Apr. State agencies claim not oil related; could this be COREXIT related. Recent wind patterns have been southerly petroleum (smells like shipyard) odor is in sea breeze. Many coast residents are FEMA formaldehyde trailer survivors have developed multi-chemical sensitivity experiencing some respiratory problems. What product is BP injecting into the deep sea discharge point? What distance will atomized Corexit travel over water when vector dispersed at 50-100′ with 25-30k wind? Thank you for the well prepared story; please provide more……………
JJ
re. Oil Spill Corexit
My idea though is to use Lipase enzymes. Lipase or other enzymes could be used to break down the crude oil down instead of simply breaking it up into smaller droplets. This is more of a digestive process than a dispersal process. I think you will agree that the end result can be much better.
While the results MIGHT Be better with an enzyme, that, too, will have a consequence. At so massive a scale, the balances will be thrown off. Ugly as it may be, the best idea is to contain it so it can be sopped up. That is unfortunately going to happen naturally at the shoreline. Breaking it down and dispersing it doesn’t solve the problem, it just makes it harder to see. Unfortunately, a bio agent will also cause imbalance that can have dire consequences.
Letting it get into the ocean was the original mistake, and cleaning up that mistake is the only real solution.
[...] John Taylor reports that BP is using a dispersant named Corexit 9500, which has a “toxicity to early life stages of fish, crustaceans and mollusks” four times greater than [...]
This sounds like an act of terrorism on the animals to me.
re. Oil Spill
You’re all using computers to cry about this ‘act of terrorism’? I assume you all have solar or wind powered homes and cars? Didn’t think so. How about you quit whining and do something positive. Until you’re ready to live in the stone age again, you need to grow up and accept the fact that there will be costs to using oil, gas, or any other reasonably cost effective source to energy to power your toys.
A spill here or there, a few dead fish or turtles, and a few lost human lives is simply going to happen and is a VERY small price to pay for the wealth, health, and happiness that fossil fuels have brought the world.
cheers!
re. Oil Spill
I would like to know where are the FBI ? O yah, investigation a false flag car bomb in NYC. Instead of a real attack on the USA. Nothing like media diversion . Congress is working overtime on this one !
RE: “” Greg Comment to oil spill article”"
Are you a retard? (a spill here or there, a few dead fish or turtles, and a few lost human lives) You must really have your head up your a**!! Humans or animals should not have to pay the price for another’s mistake or anyone for that matter. If everyone would take the time to pay attetion, and research more of their actions before doing them, we would not be in this situation. If you haven’t noticed, this is a chain of command and a lot of innocent people and innocent animals are paying for this hell of an oil spill. You need to stop letting a buck run your life and think or others before passing for sleezy comments!
RE: “” Greg Comment to oil spill article””
Greg do you work in the media?
re. oil spill clean up
Why are we trying to disperse the oil instead of coagulate it? When we would spill oil on the ground we would use good ol’ saw dust. I suggest anyone try an experiment with oil water and saw dust, and see what you notice.
A friend and I tried it and it clumped into hard woody chunks that were easy to scoop up. I would imagine that we have as much saw dust as dispersants in the world.
PTO Response – Hey Zach, good point but … have you seen the price of saw dust these days? Not nearly as profitable as selling chemicals…
unfortunately I think you are correct on that point
One important thing to point out is that bioremediation accelerators are an alternative to toxic, kerosene-based dispersants (like Corexit) which should only be used below 75 meters of depth. Dispersants break up oil in deep water. Once the oil gets to the surface, oil companies use booms to contain spills, and skimmers to collect it. They should not use dispersants near the shore because it is essentially as toxic as the oil itself.
BP currently does not use bioremediation accelerators or agglomerators despite the fact that they were used by the Spanish government to clean up the Prestige tanker spill and other large spills successfully.
We manufacture Oil Gone Easy S-200, an environmentally safe agent for bioremediating oil in shallow water and on land. BP does not appear to have a remediation plan in place to deal with oil that washes up on shore. They are hoping to contain the spill with booms, skimmers and toxic dispersants. The problem is that they have less that 100 miles of boom and the spill is 600 miles long and growing. Should weather patterns become unfavorable, substantial amounts of oil could wash up on the shore of Gulf states and cause catastrophic environmental damage.
If there are any environmental bloggers out there looking for our view on the shortcomings of the Gulf clean up process – specifically, BP’s slow response, please contact us via our corporate website. Thx.
GREG: Your comments are very disturbing. The ends do not justify the means, ever. A few lost lives and dead animals are justifiable so we can use fossil fuels? You need to re-examine yourself inwardly and rethink what you have said. That is really neurotic and sociopathic.
On an average, Dispersit is 70% effective, and may prove 100% effective, while 9500 is an average of 50% effective, with a maximum effective use of just 55%.
The entire creditiblity of this article is called into question by this statement. How did you arrive at the conclusion that Displersit is 70% effective? From the context it sounds like the 40% effectiveness in PB and the 100% effectiveness in SL was averaged to get 40%. Clearly, it doesn’t take a statistician to know that kind of calculation is utter nonsense.
ED: It wasn’t a calculation, it was a generalization. The supporting FACTS were provided to ensure there was no misundestanding. Nevertheless, Disperit is significantly more effective with significantly less toxicity. Did you have a point?
The questions we should be asking is: what can we as citizens do to help, bring awareness to and change the situation? I am not very politically connected or informed and is one of my shortcomings, but is there not away for citizens to inform its government of its concerns, through congress and senate representatives. Also, can we as citizens bring this to the attention to the media with the back of hundreds and hundreds of us. And if the mainstream media does not work can we not take it upon ourselves to spread the word and make people aware that this environmental injustice is taking place? Please, anyone that has suggestions post them…
PUT CONSTANT, CONTINUOUS, UNRELENTING & RELENTLESS PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENTS, MEDIA, LEGISLATORS, OIL & CHEMCIAL COMPANIES, AND CONSPICIOUSLY CONSUMMING “DRILL BABY DRILL” INDIVIDUALS TO PERMANENTLY SWITCH TO GREEN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION & LIFESTYLE SUCH AS PRACTICED SUCCESSFULLY IN EUROPE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE “CIVILIZED” WORLD. GOT A COMPUTER?
WRITE LETTERS TO THESE ENVIRONMENTAL WHORES. DO WHATEVER IT TAKES.
PAT.
My research direction is focus on the application of Cyclodextrin to groundwater remediation. One major advantage of cyclodextrin compared to Corexist is that cyclodextrin can disperse oil into water but at the same time it can enhance the oil biodegrate in deep sea. Cyclodextrin is also food-grade agent, no any toxic to our environment. Any one who is interest my research please shoot me a quick email at hgao1@tigers.lsu.edu such that we can do something. Thanks
Facts are:
Corexit is being used to “disperse” and make the oil drop to bottom where it will “disperse” for years, into the oceans (plural) of the world.
Dispersit has lower toxicity to silverfish by 3x’s. Only a few species checked for toxicity of either chemical.
They have a gusher on their hands, with no quick way to stop flow.
BP has raised estimates to 25,000 barrels and possibly up to 60,000 barrels a day.
Potential to contaminate other oceans is there.
Dispersed oil at 1 mile down will affect whole food chain for probable years to come.
It is not “just” a green problem. It will be everybody’s problem.
Closed minds choose not to see the magnitude.
To admin:
I did not write the “Greg” post at May 5th, 7:55 am. I wrote another article similar to the one I just posted at May 11, 10:30 am. Did you get the posts/names mixed up?
PTO – The “Greg” post May 5th, 7:55 am is from a different email and IP address. Same name, different user.
A video taken from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration video, shot as officials coordinated response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster, shows that federal officials almost immediately worried that the oil well could leak up to 110,000 barrels per day, or 4.6 million gallons.
The link is at http://www.protecttheocean.com/gulf-oil-spill-bp/
Look at the marker board at the 9:15 point of the video; it shows estimatation of leak at….. 64,000 to 110,000 BARRELS a DAY.
Hi Greg – not sure I follow you – what is the link to the video? Thanks.
David,
I can see why. Sorry, try this link,….. woops!
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/video_shows_federal_officials.html
[...] throwing everything thing they’ve got at the spill now. Tires, golf balls, and dispersant. They’re opening up spillways to try to wash the stuff away from the shores with the [...]
Sarah, cyclodextrins can be a good idea but they are too expensive for this scale of remediation. I also agree with John Taylor that dispersants are used to hide the damage, making a temporary emulsion. Dispersants for oil are usually anionic or nonionic polymer formulations that change a nonpolar oil to something that can dissolve in water. this is not the place for a chemistery lecture but you can look up emulsions to get an idea of how they work. Dispersants also can cause damage to cell walls of microorganisms, the smallest part of the food chain. Dispersants are underated in toxicity to aquatic life, IMO, but are considered safe to humans. Depends on your values as to the harm overall. The least harmful solution is to stop the spill and absorb the oil.
I’ve been looking for a petition to get them to stop using chemical dispersants. Does anyone know of one or have the resources to make one?????
PTO – It is going on right here – Thanks! http://www.petitiononline.com/STOP9500/petition.html
re. Oil Spill
The ‘article’ was interesting until I realized that the address is http://www.protecttheocean.com. I mean, the liberal propaganda was already dripping from the words. I have better things to do than read this garbage. First of all, the oceans don’t NEED us. They can clean themselves. We couldn’t clean them if we wanted to. Second, the amount of oil that’s spilled is so tiny that in comparison to the volume of the gulf and the worlds oceans it’s a non-issue. I’m not going to cry any tears over this, but I pay my respects the 11 fallen human beings that are gone from this world forever. There’ll be short-term effects, some fish will die, BP will get hammered, fiserman will be out of work because the NOAA wants to protect you from a few drops of oil, but people in haiti have suffered a fate far worse. How come the news sites are covering haiti like they were when the earthquake struck? Out of sight, out of mind. People in africa are getting slaughtered by tyrants and criminal elements. There’re problems in this world that need our attention.
No, this doesn’t get my sympathy. BP is doing their job and this thing will get cleaned up, but too many people want to get in their way and scream like blithering idiots.
PTO – the world is full of blithering idiots it seems.
We didn’t leave the stone age because we ran out of rocks, we left the stone age because we found a better way. May the same be said of the fossil fuel age. And for those that aren’t concerned about “a few dead fish”, pay heed: this is the food chain. WE will be consuming these toxic things and so will our children.
David,
I’ve been busy doing something about the problems, just saw your rant. The prof is in the pudding, and yes, the world IS full of blithering idiots… and you seem a likely candidate for their leader.
There is no Liberal Propaganda, David. We call ‘em as they are.
As to the oceans not needing us, they wouldn’t, if we weren’t so diligently fouling them. You’re worried about 11 people who died, when the devastation of this spill has already affected millions of other living creatures AND humans? “A few drops of oil”? Yeah, right. You’ve had your moments of fame. Now you can go back to being a useless naysayer while the rest of us do the job that keeps you from the havoc that the greedy sow.
Question: If you have better things to do than read this “garbage” why did you take the time to stick around and insult us? How much is BP paying you to try to make this spill seem insignificant? How can ANYONE paying attention think this is insignificant?
What we present are the facts. You have something verifiable that contradicts them, we’re all ears. As the facts continue to come out, though, BP just looks uglier all the time.
BP has taken the first two steps required to accomplish a Biodegradation clean-up by (1) cutting off the flow of oil into the impacted area, and (2) by adding a dispersant to create an emulsion of microdroplets of oil. But they have not taken the third, crucial step: oxygenating the system. The addition of oxygen is necessary to meet the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) of the Bioremediation Clean-Up Process AND the oxygen needs of sea-life. They appear to be relying on natural aeration to accomplish the next step — This is thus the rate determining step in the clean-up sequence. The rate of clean-up can be significantly accelerated by adding air/oxygen to the system. Aeration can be used to oxygenate below the Gulf surface where deep layers of petroleum are present. Aeration/oxygenation can be accomplished through the application of at least four different methods: (1) placement of floating aerators through-out the contaminated area, (2) installation of aeration units at drilling rigs in the contaminated area, (3) running boats with out-board engines through areas with emulsion on or just below the surface, and (4) spraying or injecting dilute hydrogen peroxide throughout the contaminated area. Addition of oxygen would reduce the time necessary for clean-up from years to weeks. The goal should be to clean-up as much oil as possible before this year’s hurricane season begins. Adding a dispersant from an aircraft is useless. Dispersants must be added along with good agitation. Maybe BP will take advantage of the next hurricane.
The current technical problem with the BP clean-up is diminished dissolved oxygen. Naturally-occurring bacteria WILL destroy the emulsions and oil layers very quickly if supplied with sufficient oxygen to meet their needs (called Biological Oxygen Demand, BOD); otherwise, clean-up will be very slow. There is no reason that oil/emulsion cannot be cleaned-up before it reaches coastal areas. The bacteria can also degrade excess added dispersant. But immediate action is necessary.
hi
I’m a student working on a project for school on the Gulf Oil spill…
and I was wondering If you guys could help answer a few questions i had.
1. What type of crude oil is spilling from the tanks?
2. Which specific current in the Gulf of Mexico appears South of the oil spill presently, but may play a significant role with its movement as time progresses?
3. What name has been assigned to designate this oil spill?
4. What chemical property permits the oil to form a layer on surface waters?
5. What specific biodegradable byproduct may harm sensitive near shore environments?
6. What specific chemicals may deposit on sea beds as a result of dispersant and may cause problems with increased toxicity for marine life?
7. what originally occurred in the drilling column to trigger the explosion?
8. What Factors the first dome from moving into place?
9. What are the type and composition of crystals were forming at this depth?
10. what name and type of secondary dome attempt is being pursued now?
11. Which agency has primary responsibility to oversee clean up efforts of oil spills in offshore waters?
12. which agency will offer spill specialists as needed to support these efforts?
13. Which agency provides three specific samplings of coastal beaches?
14. what are the EPA continuously monitoring along the Gulf Coast beaches?
I could barely find any information… maybe I’m not looking for the right information…. Could any of you guys help answer a few of these questions I have? It would be deeply appreciated.
PTO Response – This is a great homework assignment. Here are the answers to all of these questions – http://www.nops.k12.la.us/show_news/41 and here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
For extra credit you can post your answers here and we will give you full credit. Thanks.
hello?
Howdy!
Oh thank you Dearly for the Website links (^_^)
but… I’m still confused of what type of oil is spilling
from down there… is it Petroleum?
PTO Response – that would be a correct answer. Your teacher might be looking for some additional details that you can find here – http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/05/gulf-oil-spill-tests-confirm-oil-is-light-grade.html
Thank you very much! Wow! Louisiana sweet crude, huh?
That’s interesting (: ….. I found a few answers from the links
provided and I am very pleased….
This may be very simple but…. What the two most common
ways an oil spill occurs? I don’t want to put down the wrong thing.
PTO Response – Kind of a general question. This provides some general answers – http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/causes-of-oil-spills-172578.html
Are you getting oil on the beach down there in Pensacola?
Haaha! yet again you came through for a poor kid
like me XD haha….. and no it hasn’t reached Pensacola
beach yet… but i can smell it in the air when i go there….
It’s actually around west Louisiana and mobile….
*sigh* I hope all this goes away soon…
okay… I’m sorry for my continuous questions but….
I am really stumped at these questions… I’m not sure if
I’m right or wrong…
11. Which agency has primary responsibility to oversee clean up efforts of oil spills in offshore waters?
12. which agency will offer spill specialists as needed to support these efforts?
13. Which agency provides three specific samplings of coastal beaches?
Does Halliburton have anything to do with these questions?
PTO Response – the answer is in the questions. The “agency” would be part of the Federal Government. Hope that helps.
ps – give yourself a little more credit — you are not *dumb* — you got a complete stranger to help you with your homework
while i don’t agree with david or greg completely, i see their points. you’re all sitting at home continuing to enjoy the luxuries of fossil fuels while fury-ranting at greg for saying these occasional accidents are the price we pay to enjoy the luxuries of fossil fuels. maybe we don’t think we agree with greg, but if actions speak louder than words, then we might as well take up his banner.
and i actually hadn’t even thought of Haiti until i read Dave’s post.
it’s not the end of the world. but is still a tragic mess. BP is going to have to pay for the cost of the spill and the cleanup, and i suspect they’ll be paying in other ways for quite some time. my gut reaction is that the oil should only be contained, instead of using a probably toxic dispersant. i like the idea of coagulating or congealing the oil. but i’m not a smart man, and i expect there are many smart people getting their hands dirty with this mess.
haha! So funny! XD
thank you sincerly for our help again….
I don’t know which agencies are the
right ones for my questions…
is it EPA? DEP? NOOA? or something else
i don’t know about? I remember seeing
something on the news about
the National Coast Guard… but i
didn’t quite catch the name of the
organization involved….
PTO – Some research will deliver the correct answers. Post your completed paper for comments and ideas – there are lots of people here with opinions
We had a couple of entrepeneurs in Canada who were developing electric cars. They sold their businesses to other countries because the Canadian Government wouldn’t allow the cars to operate on highways because of SAFETY CONCERNS! The electric car is the answer to sending the lowlife humans from BP and Saudi Arabia back to the dark ages where they belong. And I do not understand why the US govt. bailed out GM after they killed the EV1.
All I want is to be able to purchase an electric car. Why is it so complicated and difficult to do so! Because the lowlife, money grubbing, selfish crude oil worshippers are preventing this with all their might.
Yes, I use a internal combustion engine to go to town. I have to because investigators like Scott West are censored for trying to put greedy, inconsiderate and power mad individuals like BP CEO Tony Hayward in jail in order to prevent the Deepwater Horizon incident in the first place.
Somebody please tell me….why is an electric car on our Canadian Highways less safe than a motorcycle?
I think that Tony Hayward should be sentenced to cleaning oil soaked birds for 12 hours a day (of course with a 1 hour time out for a dip in the Gulf to freshen up).
Mr Fournier, on May 22nd, 2010 at 1:25 am, you scribbled something like this:
BP has taken the first two steps required to accomplish a Biodegradation clean-up by (1) cutting off the flow of oil into the impacted area, and
WOAH there, pahtnah! They haven’t cut the flow of oil to anywhere. What world are YOU living on?
(2) by adding a dispersant to create an emulsion of microdroplets of oil.
Actually, they added it to sink the oil, keep it below the surface.
But they have not taken the third, crucial step: oxygenating the system. The addition of oxygen is necessary to meet the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) of the Bioremediation Clean-Up Process AND the oxygen needs of sea-life.
Oxygen is just part of it. There’s also a need for nutrients to help that process along. The oxygen aspect is ruined by the oil being submerged.
Aeration/oxygenation can be accomplished through the application of at least four different methods: (1) placement of floating aerators through-out the contaminated area, (2) installation of aeration units at drilling rigs in the contaminated area, (3) running boats with out-board engines through areas with emulsion on or just below the surface, and (4) spraying or injecting dilute hydrogen peroxide throughout the contaminated area.
Yeah, we’ll just run around over a few thousand miles aerating it all.
Addition of oxygen would reduce the time necessary for clean-up from years to weeks.
BAAAP! Wrong. For too many reasons to enumerate them all here.
Dispersing agents of any kind were a bad idea anywhere but cleaning up the shoreline. This is now pretty clearly demonstrated on the news. Unfortunately, our warnings were ignored. Please push to stop pouring solvents into the ocean, especially below the surface!
Nice article, very userfull information here, thank you!
For sure, it looks like a way to hide the problem. I recently read that US government said something like “dispersants don’t fix the problem, it’s just moving the problem somewhere else … we choose to accept the problem to occur in the ocean and less on land”. To me, it sounds just like a “nice” way to say that they do not want to take their responsabilities (or force BP to do so by acting properly on the situation). Instead of hiding the problem under the carpet like kids do when asked to clean up their room, can’t we for the first time in the history be intelligent and dispose of this disaster properly? There’s plenty of solution avaible, any of them would be better than what we do actualy.
@Doug Hartt : Maybe a bit off-topic, but about the electric car, the safety reason was the “official” one, we’ll never know why this project got buried. Maybe pressure from the oil and automobile industry, there’s no proofs. For sure, the electric motor-wheel was VERY effective, economic and supperior in performances than gaz motor.
Random source about it : http://www.hydroquebec.com/4d_includes/of_interest/PcAn2003-031.htm
Hey Manu
Thanks for the reply. This site is about dispersants and it’s evident to me that BP has aggravated the spill problems exponentially by introducing “dispersants”. We now have preliminary information from the expert Costeau family that the mixture of Corexit and oil is billowing everywhere below the surface and “out of sight”. Phillipe labelled it a “nightmare”. Without Corexit, marine death was pretty much confined to the surface and shoreline. To me that says the damage would have been in 2 dimensions. Furthermore, it is those 2 dimensions (surface only) that gives access for cleanup. With Corexit, not only is the chemical itself toxic to marine life, but now the spilled oil/dispersant slurry has intruded into the 3rd dimension…depth. That is called “exponential” and exactly why Phillipe calls it a nightmare. Now the marine death will be many, many times greater than if BP had not used Corexit. The Gulf’s food chain and plankton are absolutely and totally hooped now and for generations to come, not because of the initial spill, but because tha U.S. was stupid enough to let the “fox” look after the hen house.
As for the electric car…I mentioned it because “car” exhaust is what the major, major world problem is with oil pollution! You commented “the safety reason was the “official” one, we’ll never know why this project got buried. Maybe pressure from the oil and automobile industry, there’s no proofs.” Shell, Exxon, BP and Chevron occupy 4 positions out of top 5 biggest/richest worldwide companies. I say those oil companies censured development of all electric cars because of greed, greed, greed, greed. Small, insignificant humans who put their pockets and pleasure before the common good. Don’t need to have proof that black holes exist and don’t need to have proof that Tony Hayward helped kill my efforts to travel in an Canadian electric car and not pollute.
To me, we can prevent this problem from growing in only one way that will work. Immediately appoint Scott West as lead in the U.S investigation. Then DO NOT censure him as he does his meaningful and effective work to effectively prevent this happening again.
Here’s how it works folks.
Tony Hayward and his hacks will be succesful at intimidating then bribing all the workers who have volumes to contribute to a meaningful investigation. After all, what do you think has really been happening for the last 36 days?
1) BP is the bully who caused this problem. “three Transocean officials balked at the desire of a BP “company man” to go ahead with a process to clear the riser with seawater.” BP won the argument (just like the pilot intimidates and dominates the co-pilot before fatal airline crashes).
2) The henchman little “BP company yes man” was distressed that the original hole collapsed on itself and now they were way behind schedule and budget with a second hole being drilled.
3) The henchman little “BP company yes man” had to face all the BP bean counters whose project “budgets” were now screwed. OMG this must be why BP is only the fifth most wealthy corporation in the world!
4) Right now the “name” of this BP company man is being withheld by BP! Secrets and lies huh?
5) BP executives will be in “negotiations” with this individual about “taking the fall”
6) Top BP executives will make sure that this individual is WELL CARED FOR in the future. They will pay his legal costs and make him financially comfortable for the rest of his life.
7) Tony Hayward and his hacks will successfully deflect blame onto this scapegoat.
9) What Tony Hayward and his hacks know is that TIME is on their side. They will have their lawyers successfully delay, delay, delay for years. After a while the public ALWAYS forgets.
10) investigators will not likely find or identify the unspoken “BP corporate culture” of neglect in matters of safety and the propensity to recruit and promote individuals like the unnamed BP “company man”
11) BP will continue to be bullies and make huge profits and everybody will be happy….except the shrimp.
Caveat….perhaps, just perhaps Tony Hayward will be taken down because of his decision to use dispersants. Long live the internet and its ability to reveal the truth to the masses!
Let’s just let the US Military get involved and detonate a nuclear warhead over the drill site..(size of warhead would be determined by scientists to make sure it’s just enough destructive power to cave in drill site).. the oil reserves are about 13,000 feet below the bottom of the sea floor which is enough room.
Elaine (May 16) thank you for the petition question, I just signed (how sad though, only 298 have signed so far).
I appreciate this website, it’s the best I’ve found on this topic. One of my brothers teaches HS chemistry, so I’ll forward it to him. I carpool with a limnologist who is beginning to do a foodweb study in another one of our nation’s ‘hot spots,’ Lake Coeur d’Alene. He’s fascinating, explaining to me the unknowns about zinc inhibition, eutrophication, benthic flux, etc. Now I can better picture the photoplankton issues at hand in the Gulf.
Public radio had a clip from one of the many congressional hearings on this mess. I heard an assurance that BP would remove the gooey mess from the beaches. Is that all they are pledging to do? Removal is not remediation or near RESTORATION. Big difference.
To David (posted the 19th), how is it that people still think that the natural balance of life is anything but delicate? You state that the ocean doesn’t need us. Okay. What is there that holds your naive confidence in nature? Toxic is toxic. Delution is not good in this case.
I can’t imagine the pain in our Creator’s heart when we allow our consumption, greed, and dishonesty to make it easy for the truly nasty Extractors of Natural Resources to seize our earth’s buried treasures with one goal – money. If we all valued life more, less decisions would happen that damage us; more designs would involve safety and less consumption. Just thought I’d toss that out there.
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PTO – Thanks for the comments and the video link!
As for the petition, I signed first thing when I came across it. That will be sent to others and from there I hope that it will get many signers to send it on to other contacts.
One thing that is being said now about drilling to relieve the pressure to cap this blow out, is that it will be August before it is finished. A BP executive said that would be the end of August, not the first as some news reports are stating. This is day 40 with the possibility of 90 more days which is more then twice as long and a total of 130 days spewing oil into the Gulf with BP saying that it might not work like the other failed efforts. If that is the case, even dumb David (posted the 19th) might question his comment with a new one with perspective about a few little fishes and a couple of dead people.
Worldwide responses from others that work or have worked in the oil industry offered assistance as soon as they heard about the well blow out. It is to late to say this, but as soon as there is any disaster any place on the globe, assistance from all those that have the expertise and knowledge in helping those affected should be accepted. Those leaders in government offices that are affected by disaster and overwhelmed by the magnitude should be quick to allow all who offer help to come to the assistance of the nation affected, even when the offer to assist comes from a country that the one affected is at odds with.
Again it is too late to say something else that should have been done, but when those living on the Gulf coast asked for certain things to be done immediately, the response from Mr. Obama should have been, “Yes. I am giving the order for your request as the number one issue to be acted upon immediately.”
Mr. Obama’s disregard to make a disaster or the potential of a disaster his top priority to save lives and the environment makes me in doubt that when any other disaster should affect the US that his response will be slow in coming to the needs of those affected.
Why is the Federal Government and BP OVERLOOKING the proven, non-toxic, method of PURGING the ocean of oil?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-microbes-clean-up-oil-spills
It’s CRIMINAL!
Thanks for the article from Scientific American on microbes. Organisms are so complex. Bioremediation often backfires. Potential loss of oxygen devoured by exponential growth in the naturally occuring bacteria, could cause a dead-zone in certain layers of the ocean in that area, as the article explains. Other complications could result as well. As someone posted, getting an international team to study all of this is important. The EPA moves too slow, and the DOI hasn’t won the trust of many hearts for their stewardship. The NSF seems to have less bureaucracy bulk. BP should make a noteworthy contribution/appeal for less encumbered help.
It would be an easy matter to construct a large C-clamp with a large driven 8-10 inch screw or a hydraulic cylinder to crush the 21 inch steel pipe and pinch off the flow from the 21 inch pipe BP wants to cut off.
To Whom It May Concern:
Here is a copy of some of the pertinent info. from the MSDS sheet for Corexit 9500, manufactured by Nalco, which is the principal oil dispersant being applied to the Gulf spill.
MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEET
PRODUCT
COREXIT® 9500
EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER(S)
(800) 424-9300 (24 Hours) CHEMTREC
1. CHEMICAL PRODUCT AND COMPANY IDENTIFICATION
PRODUCT NAME : COREXIT® 9500
APPLICATION : OIL SPILL DISPERSANT
COMPANY IDENTIFICATION : Nalco Energy Services, L.P.
P.O. Box 87
Sugar Land, Texas
77487-0087
EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER(S) : (800) 424-9300 (24 Hours) CHEMTREC
NFPA 704M/HMIS RATING
HEALTH : 1 / 1 FLAMMABILITY : 1 / 1 INSTABILITY : 0 / 0 OTHER :
0 = Insignificant 1 = Slight 2 = Moderate 3 = High 4 = Extreme
2. COMPOSITION/INFORMATION ON INGREDIENTS
Our hazard evaluation has identified the following chemical substance(s) as hazardous. Consult Section 15 for the
nature of the hazard(s).
Hazardous Substance(s) CAS NO % (w/w)
Distillates, petroleum, hydrotreated light 64742-47-8 10.0 – 30.0
Propylene Glycol 57-55-6 1.0 – 5.0
Organic sulfonic acid salt Proprietary 10.0 – 30.0
Nalco Energy Services, L.P. P.O. Box 87 • Sugar Land, Texas 77487-0087 • (281)263-7000
For additional copies of an MSDS visit nalco . com and request access
5 / 10
9. PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
PHYSICAL STATE Liquid
APPEARANCE Clear Hazy Amber
ODOR Hydrocarbon
SPECIFIC GRAVITY 0.95 @ 60 °F / 15.6 °C
DENSITY 7.91 lb/gal
SOLUBILITY IN WATER Miscible
pH (100 %) 6.2
VISCOSITY 177 cps @ 32 °F / 0 °C 70 cps @ 60 °F / 15.6 °C @ 104 °F / 40 °C
VISCOSITY @ 32 °F / 0 °C @ 60 °F / 15.6 °C 22.5 cst @ 104 °F / 40 °C
POUR POINT < -71 °F / < -57 °C
BOILING POINT 296 °F / 147 °C
VAPOR PRESSURE 15.5 mm Hg @ 100 °F / 37.8 °C
Note: These physical properties are typical values for this product and are subject to change.
10. STABILITY AND REACTIVITY
STABILITY :
Stable under normal conditions.
HAZARDOUS POLYMERIZATION :
Hazardous polymerization will not occur.
CONDITIONS TO AVOID :
Heat
MATERIALS TO AVOID :
Contact with strong oxidizers (e.g. chlorine, peroxides, chromates, nitric acid, perchlorate, concentrated oxygen,
permanganate) may generate heat, fires, explosions and/or toxic vapors.
HAZARDOUS DECOMPOSITION PRODUCTS :
Under fire conditions: Oxides of carbon, Oxides of sulfur
11. TOXICOLOGICAL INFORMATION
No toxicity studies have been conducted on this product.
SENSITIZATION :
This product is not expected to be a sensitizer.
The complete material data safety sheet is available online. I republish it here in the interest of public information because the use of this chemical is well and truly in the public domain (and so should be safety data).
yours truly,
pete sanders – chemistry student at a community college in Washington State
There’s still a long way to go !
You are encouraging the use of Dispersit… lol (how much $$$ did you receive?)
Anyway, there’s is a lot to learn from that spill. The use of dispersant should be discarded once and for all.
Please forgive me for my lack of computer knowledge, because you will have to look this site up yourself, unless the website addition at the bottom works. Then PLEASE watch the ECOSAFE Overview on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-UIMyBaCOY then contact your senators, congress, governors and who ever else you can think of to get this environmentally safe product used to save our seas, environment & economy.
I found out about this and the fact that other countries around the world are using it for their “OIL SLUDGE” & “OIL CONTAMINATION” problems. Why is this being “DENIED” if it is environmentally safe? The worst it can do is not work, but if it didn’t work other countries wouldn’t be using it! Our government doesn’t work, and it is still being used! We are “WE THE PEOPLE” and “WE THE PEOPLE” need to take control before it’s to late.
OK, so I Google “coexit”, not “corexit”, a one letter error on the substance at the center of the largest environmental controversy of all time, and Google asks me: “did you mean coexist?” Must be its really no problem at all. EPA chief should go down.
Tragedy that is what has happened to all people in all lands, this BP oil spill will effect every single person on every single contenant, and they should be held accountable to the fullest exstent. Also the fact that BP is making the problem worse by using this coexit 9500, they are completely incompentent, and based on the laws in the United States, this Company should be taken over all there assets confiscated, and all there executives be arrested, and jailed for corruption, and destruction of Property. The Laws are fairly specific. Stop playing games send in the Military, bring in your best scientist, and water way specialist including logistics, and stop this thing. We can not wait another minute. Get on the phone call evey representive as thou you live right on the Gulf and tell them to bring in the Military NOW. Find a solution. BP is incompetent and can not handle this/
Legal action needs to be enacted against BP fast. With all there wisdom they have made a mess. Toxic dispersant, oil sinking so people can’t see it or clean it up. If BP really cared do you think this would have happened? Just the actions that happened on the oil platform proves otherwise. It’s like putting the lumber industry in charge of all the forests.
[...] ass for lying about the existence of oil plumes after using half of the world’s supply of COREXIT. Then beat him down again for sending teams of people intocommunities along the Gulf Coast with no [...]
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[...] “BP Embraces Exxon’s Toxic Dispersant, Ignores Safer Alternative,” Protect the Ocean. [...]
[...] Here’s a list of what is reported to be the chemical components in Corexit: [...]
If you actually do the research, Corexit 9500 is not only less toxic than the oil itself, it is more than 10x less toxic than the Dove or Palmolive being used to clean oil-slicked birds in the gulf. The research is out there and if you took the time to look, you would see that Corexit is doing far more good than it is harm. If there are so many other solutions and Corexit is soo “toxic,” then why has the EPA, the Coast Guard, the U.S. Government, and BP allowed Corexit to continue to be used in the Gulf???
Get your facts straight!
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ED: We have our facts straight, Ryder. Look back over the past 2 months of blogs and you’ll find ample evidence from published papers. No clue what planet you’re living on, or what biochem and physics work there, but Corexit is more than 3 times as toxic as oil, and is the cause of all that oil being suspended under the ocean, where it has exponentially more surface area, and no access to the air necessary for bioremediation. As to why the EPA, USCG, and BP are using it, again, read what’s been written. We’ve spelled it out. It’s so simple even a Neanderthal should be able to get it. — JT
Green Earth Technologies Has a New Ultimate Biodegradable Solution for the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster
8:19a ET May 21, 2010 (PR NewsWire)
Green Earth Technologies (Pink Sheets: GETG) announced today that they have submitted G-Marine OSC-1809 Oil & Fuel Spill Clean-UP! to the EPA as a non-toxic dispersant option for immediate consideration to emulsify and remediate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The G-Marine Oil & Fuel Spill Clean-UP! brand is new to the marketplace and has recently been submitted to the EPA for approval, but all of the product’s ingredients have passed DfE screening and may be found on DfE’s Cleangredient list that confirms biodegradation and non-toxicity.
The EPA has Given BP Officials 24 Hours to Choose a Less Toxic Chemical Dispersant. Green Earth Technologies has the capacity to meet EPA’s requirements with a concentrated solution of G-Marine Oil & Fuel Spill Clean-UP!, made from a base of plant, tree, fruit and vegetable extracts processed into a colloidal micelle solution.
“Due to the nature and urgency of this crisis, we believe that the EPA should waive the 60-90 day approval process, and consider any and all non-toxic alternatives that can meet the needs of the issue at hand,” said Jeffrey Loch, Founder and CMO of Green Earth Technologies. “As all of the ingredients of the G-MARINE dispersant are already approved on the DfE’s list, making them safe for direct to water release, the EPA should have confidence in our existing data and results allowing for on-site testing.”
Supporting this unique solution to the Gulf oil catastrophe is the Disaster Response Leadership Forum, a Washington-based independent organization which identifies the most effective disaster response solutions. Its Chairman – William Loiry – was instrumental in bringing thousands of government, business, and nonprofit leaders together to facilitate the short-term and long-term economic reconstruction of the U.S. Gulf Coast following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Loiry has recommended approval of the Green Earth Technologies non-toxic solution to BP CEO Tony Hayward.
“BP has already expressed interest in G-MARINE and we urge the EPA to give their blessing to a new, but proven product as the chosen dispersant,” said Jeff Marshall, Chairman & CEO of Green Earth Technologies. “As the oil reaches the environmentally sensitive Louisiana coastline, it is important to react immediately and we know G-MARINE Fuel Spill Clean-Up! will be the answer for this effort. The fact that this solution is non-toxic should also be good news to the millions of Americans now concerned about the safety of seafood in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Green Earth Technologies also has a plan in place with Corent Company, in cooperation with Evergreen Flying, Inc., both Louisiana based companies, to use 1295 hp Turbine Air Tractor aircraft to apply G-Marine Fuel Spill Clean-UP! dispersant over the affected areas of the BP/Trans Ocean Rig Collapse in the Gulf of Mexico. Utilizing 7 air tractor 802 aircraft, 14 square miles of oil spill could be treated daily.
G-MARINE Fuel Spill Clean-UP! is a unique blend of plant derived, water based and ultimate biodegradable ingredients specifically formulated to quickly emulsify and encapsulate fuel and oil spills. These plant derived ingredients are processed to form a colloidal micelle whose small particle size (1-4 nanometers) enables it to penetrate and breakdown long chain hydrocarbons bonds in oils and grease and holds them in a colloidal suspension when mixed with water. Once oil has been suspended in a nano-colloidal suspension, there is no reverse emulsion; the oil becomes water soluble allowing it to be consumed by resident bacteria in the water. This dispersant formula is protected by trade secrets pursuant to Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) Standard CFR-1910 1200. The ingredient list has been reviewed by the US EPA and contains no ingredients considered hazardous by OSHA.
ABOUT GREEN EARTH TECHNOLOGIES
Green Earth Technologies produces G-branded superior performing green products made with American-grown base oils that utilize the power of nanotechnology to deliver environmentally friendly products with no compromise… meaning, consumers can now “do their part” without having to give up performance or value: Save the Earth – Sacrifice Nothing(R) is the Company’s tagline. The G-brand family of products include G-OIL(R), G-MARINE(TM), G-FUEL(TM), G-WASH(TM), G-GLASS(TM), G-CLEAN(TM), G-SCENT(TM), G-WHEEL(TM), and G-TIRE(TM), and are offered in a wide range of automotive categories including performance and appearance chemicals. GET products are now available at The Home Depot, Meijers, Kroger, Albertson’s, Giant, Shop Rite, VIP, National Auto, Fred Meyer, participating ACE & True Value dealers, Redners, Trader Horns, The Andersons, Biggs, Bennett Auto, Frank’s Auto Supermarket and Amazon.com. Please visit http://www.getg.com for the latest news and in-depth information about GET and its brands.
Statements made in this release that relate to future plans, events, financial results or performance are forward-looking statements as defined under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon current information and expectations. Actual results may differ materially from those anticipated as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. Investors should also be aware that while the Company from time to time does communicate with securities analysts, it is against the Company’s policy to disclose to them any material non-public information or other confidential commercial information. Investors should not assume that the Company agrees with any report issued by any analyst or with any statements, projections, forecasts or opinions contained in any such report.
Contact:
Courtney Jacobs
Grey Alliance
212-546-2372
cjacobs@alliance-agency.com
SOURCE Green Earth Technologies
On June 4th, 2010 at 1:51 am, Louis-Philippe Clermont scribbled
“You are encouraging the use of Dispersit… lol (how much $$$ did you receive?)
Anyway, there’s is a lot to learn from that spill. The use of dispersant should be discarded once and for all.”
We don’t get any money, Mr. Clermont. Perhaps you’d like to lead the charge to having PTO’s efforts reach a break-even point?
Dispersants out on the open ocean and sub-surface are a bad idea. But let’s not be entirely unrealistic. No matter how well you vacuum and skim up the surface crude, some is going to be on the rocks, etc., and that will take something to clean them up. Something with as little toxicity as possible is certainly preferably, don’t you agree?
Dispersit has been available, ready and willing and able all along. There are other suggestions, but we didn’t see any of them stepping up and saying they could get the job done. It’s a far better alternative, being water-based and considerably less toxic than Corexit. What do you suggest we do for cleanup at the shoreline? We’re all ears, per se.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
10AM-End Time TBA
Gulf Oil Spill Emergency Summit
AN EXTRAORDINARY CRISIS REQUIRES
AN EXTRAORDINARY RESPONSE
THE PEOPLE MUST ACT
TO STOP THE GULF CATASTROPHE
http://www.gulfemergencysummit.org/
Website: gulfemergencysummit.org
Email: gulfemergencysummit@gmail.com
First Unitarian Universalist Church, Sanctuary
5212 South Claiborne Avenue
New Orleans, LA
A friend of mine works for a company called FOG Free Technologies out of Charleston, SC. They’re trying everything they can to show someone in charge what their product can do, but it’s such a slow process. All they want to do is help save our coastline, oceans, and wildlife, but they can’t get their foot in the door. As a resident of LA, I want to do whatever I can to help them get their product out in our waters.
They make a product that is environmentally friendly, a green product, that can disperse the oil. It changes the polarity of the molecules so the individual oil molecules don’t stick together. It was made to be used in wastewater applications, but they tested it and it works on crude. There are two other dispersing agents that have been used in the past on crude spills. Corexit 9500 is toxic at 2.61 ppm. Dispersit is toxic at 7.9-8.2 ppm. In FOG Free Technologies’ test, at a petroleum level of 14 ppm (11 ppm is toxic), their product was shown to not be toxic until a level of 56 ppm. Their website is http://www.fogfreetechnologies.com
All they want is a chance to show what the product can do. Any advice on who they could contact? If anyone has any ideas, please email me at janrebecca@gmail.com.
[...] Oil Spill – BP Trying To Hide Toxic Oil with Corexit Chemical Dispersant Agent? [...]
Now if the indians back in say 1492 would have introduced and enforced some type of immigration law, none of this would be happenning now,right white folks?
ALl I can say here is how foolish you American people are. You are so gullible and believe mostly everything your media tells you. WAKE UP AMERICAN PEOPLE! Do something right now – band together and crush this evil shadow government that is taking over your country right under your nose! You just dont get it do you all? You have been INVADED by the enemy who has desguised themselves and have snuck through your borders. They are murdering you and your country. GET THEM OUT NOW before it is too late – if not already. You are all going to be doomed. This is NO JOKE!!! WAKE UP!!! I IMPLORE YOU DESPERATELY for the rest of the world sake.
This BP Oil spill is the biggest bio hazard of all time and it don’t take a mind reader to see it’s going to get worse.
There using chemicals five times more toxic then Perk which is a chemical that is not to come into contact with the skin used in dry cleaning. Perk is a oil based product. So based on this knowledge and the fact I’ve seen people’s health effected by contact with this chemical. We are now going to expose people to Corexit 9527, and corexist 9500 which in my wikipedia research has been proven to cause internal bleeding as well as kidney and red blood cell break down.
also people these chemicals can get into the food chain. as small droplets of oil broken down by these chemicals.
Massive action needs to be taken by the people of the world now We need to stand up to our governments and demand clean enegry now.
Patterns! patterns! Everything that has happened to reduce the American population started with Waco, then Oklahoma City bombing, then 9/11, now a giant oil spill effecting the Southern and Eastern parts of the US with added toxic chemicals to Gulf Waters. Whose behind this massive wave of killing off American citizens? We are in a chemical war where one can’t breathe the air with its deadly chemicals sprayed into the atmosphere…..like “chem-trails, only worse!” This deadly oil spill effects more than an area on the coastlines of Southern America, it will cause chemical rainfalls ruining land of growing crops, as well as drinking water, fishing, and multiples of other things. Its time to react as citizens to vote an entirely new leadership in our country – so the scriptures tell us that “righteouness exalts a nation.” Americans must overcome the corporate leaders that look to destroy the American way of life by their greed. Serious prayer groups can be formed by Americans asking God to bring about a change and defeating Satan’s attempt to destroy God’s people in this nation.
No one is able to bring about this change. It takes the Creator to help change hearts.
No one person can control situations nor circumstances, but there is strength in unity.
Pray that God will take control as He has the answers. If hurting families will try the pattern
of prayer daily, faithfully, God will hear. He doesn’t like what is happening to the earth He created, and especially, His people. Be faithful asking Him to come to America’s rescue. The scriptures tell us that “those who destroy the earth, will be destroyed.” Those that are faithful will be given eternal life.
im doing a report on the oil spill for a college class ,
i would like some imput on web sites ,i can trust or some good ones to go to
[...] Newspeak aside, Corexit is four times more toxic than oil. On May 3rd, the environmental group, Protect the Oceans, reported that “oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61 [...]
Corexit is being sprayed at altitudes miles high. It is not being dispersed in normal manner of crop dusting. This means that prevailing winds have carried this powder as far as mid-America. Here in North Carolina Mountains farmers are already seeing a white powder appear on crops. The crops wilt by next day and are destroyed. This chemical destroys vegetation. Remember crude oil is a natural substance. It could be put on your compost pile ( I wouldn’t want to) and in matter of days the bacteria will destroy any toxicity. Companies have offered to GIVE oil eating bacteria to BP for clean up and EPA won’t approve it. Follow the money.