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Post by moabiter on May 27, 2010 8:39:44 GMT -8
Crews involved in oil recovery feeling sick; boats recalled May 27th, 2010 01:21 AM ET The Unified Command in Louisiana recalled all 125 commercial vessels in Breton Sound after four crew members in three vessels involved in the oil recovery operations reported feeling sick... The vessels were involved in cleaning up oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico since April when an oil rig sank about 40 miles of Louisiana, gushing an estimated 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) of crude a day. news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/27/crews-involved-in-oil-recovery-feeling-sick-boats-recalled/ 5,000 barrels isn't that bs ...
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Post by moabiter on Jul 31, 2010 22:41:11 GMT -8
Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions Posted by kpete in Latest Breaking News Fri Jul 30th 2010, 05:43 PM Source: Project Gulf Impact Exposure to chemicals, such as those being used to break down oil in the region, like the dispersant, Corexit, may be the cause of such infections. Corexit is an agent that has been proven to break down lipid membranes, which cover and protect human skin. Human skin is composed of a thin layer of lipids and Corexit, by nature, breaks down these organized barriers into smaller individual molecules allowing the barrier to become permeable to pathogens. The skin irritation could be caused by prolonged exposure to these chemicals and could break down the ability of the body to fight off infection. journals.democraticunderground.com/kpete/14336
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Post by clone on Sept 17, 2010 12:11:44 GMT -8
The Gulf BLUE PLAGUE is Evolving 10 Aug 2010, 15:58 I have been interviewing family and friends who live along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Louisiana and Mississippi. Many of them had been working on shrimp boats before May 1, 2010 and a cousin is a shrimp boat owner. I have also spoken at length with two RN's working at a Gulf coast Emergency Room and an Emergency Clinic who are close family friends. I am basing what follows on their observations and knowledge along with my own personal research. A cousin who owns his own shrimp boat was hired by BP to assist with oil boom and cleanup operations. Other family members were also hired and have been his crew while undertaking BP boom and cleanup assistance operations. They were all forced to sign agreements not to publicly speak about their work or anything about BP operations. Their legal agreements do not mention anything about speaking openly to their families. STAGE ONE: THE BLUE FLU a/k/a BP FluEvery one of those working on the shrimp boat have suffered from flu-like symptoms since the end of May, 2010. This includes migraine headaches, eye aches, joint aches, ear aches, severe coughing bouts, fevers, vomiting, and swollen glands (especially in the neck). These same symptoms are being seen in the coastal ER's as well. But as family and the RN's have confirmed, these symptoms are not caused by any viral flu. This is not the same as the Asian Flu or any other viral flu bug. These symptoms are directly caused by a lack of oxygen due to airborne chemicals and toxic gases... CYANOSIS: OXYGEN STARVATION Along with the symptoms that mimic flu-like viruses, there are increasing cases of severe symptomatic cyanosis. These rapidly increasing symptoms range from bluish lip color to numbness in fingers and toes. There is also a fast growing increase of pneumonia cases which are being diagnosed as chemical induced pneumonia. Those working on boats and those living directly on the coast are the most effected... OXYGEN DEPLETED WATER AND AIR The same goes for oxygen levels in water. Fish, turtles, and crustaceans (shrimp and lobsters) die quickly when oxygen levels have been depleted. Dolphins and whales are mammals and they depend on surface water air to breathe their oxygen. Since May 2010, there has been an epidemic of dead fish, turtles, dolphins, sharks and whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The mainstream media has failed to report this truth. As someone who works closely with other animal rescue and wildlife rehabilitation services throughout the southeast, I have been told there are very few turtles or marine animals being rescued because the majority are already dead when found. STAGE TWO: THE BLUE PLAGUEWhile the Blue Flu symptoms are increasing for more and more people, those who have had 30+ days of direct exposure to the toxic and oxygen depleted Gulf air and water are in immediate danger of permanent and irreversible biological damage... if not death. How humans and animals biologically react to cyanosis depends on the severity of exposure and time of exposure. At first, the body will compensate as best it can. But sooner or later, the body is overcome and severe complications begin. Without enough oxygen, the body will begin to rot and die from the inside out. The outward signs can be numbness in extremities, swollen necks and throats, blue lips, dark purple tongues, blue or gray skin colour, and even bloodshot eyes as the body attempts to filter out the toxins. Lymph nodes and adenoids are overburdened. worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=940[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?#p2272
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Post by moabiter on Oct 17, 2010 23:40:20 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Oct 17, 2010 23:50:57 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Oct 18, 2010 0:58:48 GMT -8
This is a message and post from Pam Batson, Mobile Resident effected by BP Slick. "This is good. Dr. Michael Harbut, professor of medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit Everything he mentions is EXACTLY the symptoms we've seen exhibited in the Gulf region repeatedly since the spill. The other day I was talking with a guy who has ...walked the beach every day this summer and was complaining that he's lost most of the feeling in his feet. I hadn't heard about that, but Dr. Harbut addresses it here, that neuropathy and nerve damage are common. The other day, against my better judgement, I walked barefoot on what appeared to be a clean beach. Afterwards, the soles of my feet were orange. The dispersed oil is not always apparent, but it is there. No more barefoot walking on the beach!" bpoilslick.blogspot.com/2010/10/dr-michael-harbut-talks-about-human.html
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Post by moabiter on Oct 19, 2010 7:47:30 GMT -8
How Toxic are Oil Dispersants? Groups Press EPA to Find Out Before Next Spill Shrimpers, community groups petition agency for info, clear rules before OK’ing future use October 13, 2010 Washington, D.C. — Gulf coast shrimpers and affected community groups from Alaska to Louisiana to Florida pressed the federal government today to better regulate dispersants -- the chemicals that oil companies routinely use to break up oil slicks on water – before these chemicals are used in future spill cleanups. The non-profit environmental law firm Earthjustice filed a petition (PDF) www.earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/dispersant_petition_0.pdf [14pp] on behalf of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, Florida Wildlife Federation, Gulf Restoration Network, the Alaska-based Cook Inletkeeper, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Waterkeeper and Sierra Club asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to write rules that would set out exactly how and when dispersants could be used in the future. www.earthjustice.org/news/press/2010/how-toxic-are-oil-dispersants-groups-press-epa-to-find-out-before-next-spill
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Post by moabiter on Oct 19, 2010 7:51:03 GMT -8
Delivering sand to Long Beach Mississippi... Frothy, Funky, Foam October 10 2010 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZvMy0xj44sDenise Rednour: The title says it all...that awful dispersed oil and foam and the horrible stench of that muratic acid like smell that makes your tongue and senses numb were prevalent today.
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Post by moabiter on Oct 19, 2010 8:19:38 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Oct 19, 2010 8:22:16 GMT -8
EPARAIN.wmv www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIt_axrUGhECoastalHeritageofLa | October 13, 2010 Lab results from rain water testing done by CHSL. To visit us online go to www.CHSLouisiana.org While we invite all to share this video, no portion of it may be cut an reproduced into another video or project without the writen consent of CHSL. To gain permission email with context to laheritagesociety@gmail.com All rights reserved. chslrainwatercollection.wmv www.youtube.com/watch?v=rObKgRf5W94
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Post by clone on Oct 20, 2010 10:58:38 GMT -8
From another spill (Kalamazoo River, Michigan, July 2010):
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Post by clone on Oct 22, 2010 21:07:36 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Oct 31, 2010 1:23:29 GMT -8
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Post by clone on Nov 15, 2010 6:41:27 GMT -8
New Evidence Links BP to Health Crisis in the Gulf November 5, 2010 Originally collected on four separate dates throughout August, all the blood samples -- from three females, age 44, 46 and 51, and five males, age 30, 46, 48, 51 and 59 -- contained dangerously high levels of volatile organic chemicals found in BP crude oil, including Ethylbenzene, m,p-Xylene and Hexane, Subra explained during a wide-ranging interview with Alternet. www.alternet.org/water/148737
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Post by clone on Dec 7, 2010 13:40:17 GMT -8
Environmental Protection Agency? Residents of the US Gulf Coast say their pleas for help and transparency continue to be ignored by regulators. Last Modified: 06 Dec 2010 Some Mississippi residents believe that unnatural foamy substances washing up on beeches are a byproduct of BP's toxic dispersants used as part of the clean-up effort around the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Michelle Nix, from Pensacola, Florida, founded the group Gulf Coast Oil Spill Volunteers in an effort to be pro-active and do what she could to help when the BP oil disaster began on April 20. "I had 500 volunteers coordinated to help with cleanup, people offering free oil boom, people donating their work and time to help," Nix told Al Jazeera. She contacted the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Coast Guard, Wildlife and Fisheries, "and everyone I could think of to try to help," Nix said. "But none of them responded. None of the government agencies would get back in touch with me." Nix, not to be deterred, helped organise blood tests for several Gulf coasts residents who were experiencing sicknesses attributed to toxic chemicals released from BP's well blow-out and the dispersants the company has used to sink the oil. In October, Dr. Wilma Subra, a chemist and Macarthur Fellow, conducted the blood tests for volatile solvents - chemicals present in BP's crude oil as well as their toxic dispersants - on eight people Nix provided who live and work along the coast. Chemical contaminationMost of the people tested had these toxic chemicals present in their blood at levels several times higher than the national average. "Ethylbenzene, m,p-Xylene and Hexane are volatile organic chemicals that are present in the BP Crude Oil. The blood of all three females and five males had chemicals that are found in the BP Crude Oil," according to Subra’s report. english.aljazeera.net/indepth/2010/12/2010125113825735197.html
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