It’s been over five years since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, but BP is apparently still sparying Corexit, an oil dispersal chemical used to remove oil from the ocean. But the oil has long since dispersed and now the environment, including the food supply and drinking water, are contaminated and unsafe, posing health risks to Gulf residents:
There were strong and early indications that the use of Corexit, combined with the leaking oil, were producing, both long term and short term, catastrophic environmental and individual health effects. Oil and Corexit, used to “disperse” the oil spill have impacted untold numbers of Gulf residents’ health. Additionally, both the food supply and the food chain are being adversely impacted. The air and the subsequent evapotranspiration cycle has been irreversibly altered which, in turn, impacts the water table and the safety of water supplies as well as the safety of crops. The most devastating finding relates the events of the oil spill to the phenomena of the ever-widening Louisiana sinkholes and the related underground explosions as well as the very high concentration of toxic and highly flammable methane in the air and in the water.
One of the major threats to the Gulf Coast comes from an imperiled food supply which is the result from the explosion on the Deep Water Horizon oil rig.
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Findings, related to the longevity of the Exxon Valdez clean-up workers, are very disturbing as the collective lifespan statistics, for the Corexit exposed cleanup crews, revealed that the average life expectancy is a mere 51 years of age and nearly all of the Exxon Valdez clean-up workers are dead. These findings can leave little doubt that BP’s use of Corexit has seriously compromised the collective life span of Gulf Coast residents
Source: The Common Sense Show
If you live in the Gulf coast region, be safe and evacuate. Purify your water, or better yet, stick to bottled until you can leave. The government isn’t going to assist you or tell you how worried you should be. You have to take your life and the lives of your family into your hands and evacuate yourself. Tell your friends and loved ones living in the Gulf that it isn’t safe anymore and to leave immediately. Most importantly, stay safe.
Even NPR acknowledges the problem. Of course, they must as black balls of oil are still found all over the coast:
This was one of the most heavily oiled areas during the BP oil spill five years ago. Today, hundreds of tar balls still dot the beach. A BP crew works to clean up a large tar mat from the surf.
“This will be going on, unfortunately, for years,” says Marshall.
That’s because some of the oil was buried beneath the sand just offshore, and it gets churned up when the surf is rough. Back out on Barataria Bay, Marshall points to where roots jut up in the open water. These used to be mangrove islands.
“The oil coated the roots of those mangrove trees and then they died,” Marshall says. “And without the mangroves to hold the islands together, within three years most of those islands were gone.”
Louisiana was already losing land at an alarming rate, but scientists confirm that the oil spill accelerated the pace. Barataria Bay has lost key bird nesting islands, andfederal government studies indicate that dolphins here in the bay are sick and dying at a higher rate than normal and show signs of oil poisoning.
On an afternoon boat tour, Marshall sees something that worries him.
“There’s another dead dolphin. That’s the second one we’ve seen,” he notes. “This is strictly anecdotal — can’t tie it to anything. But seriously, I’ve never seen a single dead dolphin out here. Now I’m seeing two. This is amazing.”
BP: ‘The Gulf Is A Resilient Body Of Water’
Cynthia Sarthou, executive director of Gulf Restoration Network, says that after five years, there are more questions than answers about what the lingering impact of the spill means.
Tar balls can still be found on the beach of Grande Terre, an island off the Louisiana coast.
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“Dolphin deaths continue, oil is still on the bottom of the ocean, tar balls keep coming up,” she says. “And nobody really is able to say what we may find in five years, 10 years. It’s really distressing to me.”
Source: NPR
You people are so full of c**p! I live on the gulf and we and the gulf are doing great! There is more oil leached into the gulf naturally every day than that well leaked! You either know that and are liars or you are just stupid people peddling fear to the sheepol!
To bad move on. Your just trying to get grant and tax money for your group. The answer is NO.