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The Deepwater Horizon Oil spill or leak as BP calls it, is a disaster of epic proportion. The response by the EPA is equally to blame in the approval of two chemical dispersants by BP, and it’s reliance soley on BP to clean it up and provide water samples.
Saturday May 15, 2010-“Based on the scientific analysis of the EPA and NOAA and review by the National Response Team, it has been determined that the use of dispersants at the subsea source is the prudent and responsible action to take along with other tactics including surface dispersant, skimming and controlled burns.” http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/551271/
We warned in this post, https://ahrcanum.wordpress.com/2010/05/16/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-response/ that the use of chemical dispersants, is not without it’s own hazards. BP asked, and got approval from the EPA to use COREXIT, manufactured by Nalco Company, Illinois. http://www.nalco.com/
COREXIT EC 9500 A http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9500A_MSDS.539287.pdf
COREXIT 9527 C http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9527A_MSDS.539295.pdf
COREXIT products clearly state that they are not to be used on surface water and are toxic to wildlife. And that, “It is unknown if dispersed oil has toxic implications to the human population because bioaccumulation through the food chain has not been evaluated.” http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/dispersants.html#q3
It was not prudent and responsible to approve these particular products, and now in a reverse course, EPA is revoking its decision.
The Environmental Protection Agency informed BP officials late Wednesday that the company has 24 hours to choose a less-toxic form of chemical dispersants to break up its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, according to government sources familiar with the decision, and must apply the new form of dispersants within 72 hours of submitting the list of alternatives.
The move is significant, because it suggests federal officials are now concerned that the unprecedented use of chemical dispersants could pose a significant threat to the Gulf of Mexico’s marine life. BP has been using two forms of dispersants, Corexit 9500A and Corexit 9527A, and so far has applied 600,000 gallons on the surface and 55,000 underwater.http://views.washingtonpost.com/climate-change/post-carbon/2010/05/epa_demands_less_toxic_dispersant.html
A significant threat? Why approve COREXIT in the first place? Maybe because Nalco Company received nearly two million dollars in government contracts this year alone. http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/ondeo_nalco_company_004962403.asp?yr=09
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J. Erik Fyrwald is the Chairman and CEO of NALCO and among other things, “…serves as a Director of Eli Lilly and Company, the Society of Chemical Industry, the American Chemistry Council and is a Trustee of the Field Museum of Chicago.” http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=182822&p=irol-govBio&ID=176133 More of his relationships via http://www.muckety.com/J-Erik-Fyrwald/8859.muckety shows he is also a Director of The Eexecutives Club of Chicago.- http://www.executivesclub.org/ where they are launching The Global Leadership Institute of Chicago—a legacy that endows the capacity to make change.
Capacity to make change? Change you can believe in?
Let me think, who else is from Chicago that I can think of? Blagojevich, Wright, Ayers, President Obama. The biggest oil spill in the world has taken place under Obama’s reign and it took him days to hold a conference with administration officials and eleven days to go see for himself. http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/45025
Keeping in good graces in the eye of the government and the public, Nalco issued this statement on EPA Analysis of Sub-surface Dispersant Use, http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=182822&p=irol-newsArticle_pf&ID=1429558&highlight=NAPERVILLE, Ill.,
May 20, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) –Nalco (NYSE:NLC) today issued the following statement:We are gratified that the EPA has acknowledged that the use of Nalco’s dispersants has been effective and has had no undue impact on the marine environment. As the agency noted on its website today: “Toxicity data does not indicate any significant affects on aquatic life. Moreover, decreased size of the oil droplets is a good indication that, so far, the dispersant is effective.”
The results can be found at http://www.epa.gov/bpspill/ . To date, approximately 600,000 gallons of dispersant has been used on the surface and approximately 55,000 gallons of dispersant has been used subsurface, at the source of the spill.
Do you smell something fishy?
Nalco claims the products are working just fine with no hazards, yet the EPA is revoking the use of COREXIT? Yep. It boils down to the fact that the government is not happy with BP. In a Letter From Secretary Napolitano and EPA Administrator Jackson to BP CEO Tony Hayward (PDF) they all but accuse BP of adulterating water samples to justify that COREXIT and the sucking up gadget is having a positive effect of the spill.
WHY ISN’T THE EPA TAKING IT’S OWN WATER SAMPLES?
Friday, May 21, 2010 11 a.m. CDT. U.S. Coast Guard Incident Commander Capt. Steven Poulin, U.S. Coast Guard Deputy Incident Commander Capt. Bill Drelling, and BP Incident Commander Keith Seilham of The Deepwater Horizon Response Unified Incident Command, Mobile, Ala., are scheduled to hold a press briefing about ongoing response operations along the Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coasts. http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/557791/ I got tired of listening to the music and hung up after the delayed start, but why wouldn’t the EPA be involved as well?
The forecast where the oil is heading can be viewed at http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/os_forecast_20100523_1800CDT_20100520_1900CDT_rs.557859.pdf Too bad no one is mapping where the dispersants have been administered. In an effort to have more government oversight before a catastrophe, about a week ago The Department of the Interior released this:
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a set of reforms that will provide federal inspectors more tools, more resources, more independence, and greater authority to enforce laws and regulations that apply to oil and gas companies operating on the Outer Continental Shelf. http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Salazar-Launches-Safety-and-Environmental-Protection-Reforms-to-Toughen-Oversight-of-Offshore-Oil-and-Gas-Operations.cfm // http://www.mms.gov/
Salazar implies BP and other oil companies want to lose untold amounts of oil and money on purpose. Gives you that warm fuzzy feeling that more independence will prevent this from happening again. How about a new set of federal reforms that secure our border?
“The Official Site of The Deepwater Horizon Unified Command”, http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ is Headquarters for information.
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I have spoken to Kenvin at Oillift.net, a Canadian company – I was initially very impressed by a demonstration I saw in the youtube video Blood Of The Earth BP OOIl Spill part 1
Just wrote the following to a govt office of the Emergeny Management Agency – hope and pray I have some effect on this attack on our Earth Mother and her inhabitants.
I am a researcher and writer and citizen of the United States with great reservations about the massive and untested use of a highly toxic oil dispersant in mass quanities in the Gulf to treat unknown quantities of oil.
1)Why was the EPA allowing use of this toxic agent in the first place when the substance was, in July, reclassified as being fit for use?
2) Why is BP being allowed to overrule the EPA after the latter agency asked BP to cease use of Corexit?
3) What are your agencies rights and responsibilities in oversight of this alleged attack on the ecology of our nation and what actions and investigations or studies is the RMP or EM office undertaking at this time?
Many consider the acts of adding to the toxicity of the oil spill by addition of Corexit an outrageous error motivated my financial greed and conflict of interest in the no-bid use of Corexit as BP has purchased the company (Nalco) that manufactures the product. Polymer absorbent products are available that are seemingly superior to polypropylene products that merely capture the oil but do not neutralize it.
Are the laws enacted after the Exxon Valdez in Alaska giving BP unbridled powers to act at will even though the recommendations on the labels of Corexit contradict and warn of their use?
Thank you for your comments and any other referrals you can give me in order to get answers to a very problematic situation that is in need of policy change.
John Schneider
Ck’d OILLIFT.NET. While the products may work the website comes off more like a pyramid selling site. There are no ingredients listed, and why would one have to provide your email to read more about it?
The Taiwanese super oil skimmer known as “A Whale” has been deemed ineffective by the US Coast Guard. It sucked up only negligible amounts of oil during its test run in the Gulf.
Maybe, just maybe it’s because the Corexit worked?
EPA/FDA food tests say it is not showing up in fish, clams, oysters etc.
Surface dispersant used: more than 1.07 million gallons
Subsea dispersant used: more than 771,000 gallons
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9034409&contentId=7063771
The surface dispersant has been halted, not sure about subsea but I would imagine it too at least for not has stopped.
Don’t know much about OILLIFT.NET products. will ck into
Ahrcanum:
J Snyder again – the article re: Corexit and Nalco was well (oops) done – what is the latest now that it is July 16th and BP is claiming a victory of sorts – yet I understood there to be several leaks, including multiple sea-floor leaks resulting from a blown-out well pile – mud deposited in an early fix attempt resulting in the strata leaks bubbling up to the multiple surface leaks.
THe Corexit was being shot right into the source gush stream from a “battery powered unit” thus providing the environment with a hyper toxic oil plume (s) hanging deep below the surface.
My contact person at OILLIFT.NET (Kevin G.) is prepared to supply a large amount of oil-absorbing and nutralizing polymer agents (as opposed to the mere oil-storage units of polypropoline that are being used in the primitive “soak it up” products that the big Korps. have a monopoly of.
Feedback welcome –
Thank you for this information. The Nalco trail is extremely troubling. I am writing an article and would hope to use your informations.
On the positive side, a company called Oillift (oillift.net) has a remarkable product that can be seen toward the end of
…the question remains, how can we as “mere” individuals stop the dispersant madness and acquire alternatives such as oil coagulants that would cause the oile to glob up for simple harvesting.
Read somewhere that in 4 years or so, if no one does anything it will eventually stop leaking.
You’re on the right track-! But, You haven’t seen anything yet, the worse is yet to come, the ocean floor is fractured and is about to crack >>> http://the2010campaignconspiracy.wordpress.com/ <<<<
Wait just a second here, doesnt any here get that this is an all out assault on great ol mother nature??? Doesnt it seem a little fukt that all this started on earth day…. is there no comment citing the fact that this is biblical shit???
If 9-11 was an all out assault against against the american people, and a big f.u. to god himself… doesnt it make sense that this oil ..LEAK.. is the same type of scenerio as being a terrorist attack against all of humanity… I mean come on.. our Earth is hemmorraging from an unstoppable hit to her juggular vein…..
Talk obout terror, this is one of the most frightening incidence that I have ever wittnessed. Worse that it cant be stopped, IT WONT BE STOPPED!
People WAKE UP!!! The tribulation is in its final stages, this proves, in all finality that we dont have much longer, Make your peace, live each day like its the last, for he will come like a theif in the night, and the hour of the day is soon at hand.
It sure isn’t cotton candy.
This may be why! We will have to wait on this, but Corexit appears to be an undiscovered bioweapon, or maybe this chemical molecule went through a mutation after dispersal in the ocean >>> http://worldresarchnews.wordpress.com/ <<<<<