BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage

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http://laudyms.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/bp-oil-spill-corexit-dispersants-suspected-in-widespread-crop-damage/


Wake Up Call


A mysterious “disease” has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or “disease”.

Yobie Benjamin SFGate June 10, 2010

Just when you thought the damages BP could cause was limited to beaches, marshes, oceans, people’s livelihoods, birds and marine life, there’s more.

BP’s favorite dispersant Corexit 9500 is being sprayed at the oil gusher on the ocean floor. Corexit is also being air sprayed across hundreds of miles of oil slicks all across the gulf. There have been widespread reports of oil cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress, dizziness and headaches.

Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco of Naperville, Illinois. Corexit is is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm).

In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed.

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so there we have it "one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed"

Gulf life gets double wammy of toxins

Gulf life is over

[dipsydoodle]

1. More toxic than

Agent orange ?

[KamaAina]

2. Agent Orange is a defoliant

not a dispersal agent.

[leveymg]

3. Read the lab study - that was NOT the conclusion. Here's the link:

http://www.iosc.org/papers/00020.pdf That report - it's only one-page - did NOT say anything like "COREXIT 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersant agents ever developed." It reported the levels at which it and 9517, the other Nalco dispersant, are toxic to various forms of aquatic life. In tiny concentrations of just a few ppms, it is toxic to marine life, particularly mollusks and fish eggs, which is itself really shocking. There is no mention of its effects on land life forms, and may not have been tested for that. That would also be shocking.

But, please do not distort the meaning of this.

[flyarm]

4. ahh don't worry about us small people!! eom

[leveymg]

5. And the small marine organisms. Apparently very deadly to invertibrate and fish eggs.

That means, this is the last generation for some of these creatures for a long time in those areas. The marine food chain just got wiped out from the bottom up. Literally.

This did not have to be. I think I'm going to be sick, now.

[flyarm]

8. I am so sick...that it defies me that anyone could support this shit and support what BP and Our

Government have done to us..and this will effect ALL OF US!

Today it is we on the Gulf..but give it time..It will effect all of us..

[leveymg]

9. There hasn't been effective federal oversight since Reagan.

This day was bound to come. I feel bad for Obama that it had to happen now. But, he hasn't been nearly forceful and decisive enough. We should vote for "Fake President" Rachel next time.

[City Lights]

6. That can't be! The EPA approved it!

:mad:

And they can't use the less toxic dispersant, because it's not approved here!

:grr:

[xchrom]

7. We're all going reel at the revelations of where

All this damage gets too.