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Post by moabiter on Jun 3, 2010 8:05:22 GMT -8
Fisherman's wife breaks the silence By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN - June 3, 2010 7:49 a.m. EDT "I received several calls from him saying, 'This one's hanging over the boat throwing up. This one says he's dizzy, and he's feeling faint. Everybody's loading up their stuff, tying up their rigs and going back to the docks,'" Arnesen remembers... After attending a lecture by Rikki Ott, a toxicologist who's worked with families affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, Arnesen decided to organize other wives to ask questions about the safety of working near the oil. www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/03/gulf.fishermans.wife/index.html
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Post by clone on Feb 24, 2012 16:35:18 GMT -8
BP Hauls in $7.7 Billion in Profits, Gulf Fishermen Haul in Shrimp with No Eyes Posted February 17, 2012 Oil giant BP, the company behind the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, reported profits of $7.7 billion for the last quarter of 2011. Company executives and industry analysts sounded bullish about the company's future in a recent New York Times article, saying they had set aside enough money to compensate victims of the Gulf spill and had plans to expand drilling operations in the Gulf. BP seems to be recovering nicely after the disaster, which killed 11 people and pumped 170 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But stories from the Gulf suggest that the region is anything but healed. The Gulf has been plagued with a suite of unexplained afflictions. Gulf fishermen say this is the worst season they can remember, with catches down 80 percent or more. Shrimp boats come home nearly empty, hauling in deformed, discolored shrimp, even shrimp without eyes. Tar balls and dead dolphins still wash up on beaches. Scientists report huge tar mats below the sand, "like vanilla swirl ice cream." These shrimp without eyes were caught off the Gulf Coast in late 2011Fishermen, cleanup workers, and kids report strange rashes, coughing, breathing difficulty, eye irritation, and a host of other unexplained health problems that have persisted in the years since the disaster. Many of them have shared their stories with my colleague Rocky Kistner, who worked at NRDC's Gulf Resource Center in Buras, Louisiana. more: switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/plehner/bp_hauls_in_77_billion_in_prof.html
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Post by clone on Apr 12, 2014 4:39:22 GMT -8
Nearly Four Years After The BP Oil Spill, Long-Term Health Impacts Remain Unclear www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/11/health-impacts-unclear-bp-oil-spill_n_5130545.htmlPosted: 04/11/2014 12:10 pm EDT Updated: 04/11/2014 5:59 pm EDT CHALMETTE, La. (AP) — When a BP oil well began gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, fisherman George Barisich used his boat to help clean up the millions of gallons that spewed in what would become the worst offshore spill in U.S. history. Like so many Gulf Coast residents who pitched in after the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig, Barisich was motivated by a desire to help and a need to make money — the oil had destroyed his livelihood. Today he regrets that decision, and worries his life has been permanently altered. Barisich, 58, says respiratory problems he developed during the cleanup turned into pneumonia and that his health has never been the same. "After that, I found out that I couldn't run. I couldn't exert past a walk," he said. His doctor declined comment. ________________ Some 33,000 people, including Barisich, are participating in a massive federal study that aims to determine any short or possible long-term health effects related to the spill.
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