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Nearly Every Cleanup Worker From Exxon Valdez Now Dead?
And So it Goes in Shreveport ^ | 07/01/2010 | Pat Austin

Posted on 07/01/2010 9:53:01 AM PDT by paustin110

Greta Perry linked this article from Business Insider on Facebook last night that states nearly every cleanup worker from the Exxon Valdez is now dead. Why? From the fumes? From natural causes? From chemicals? More explanation, please. This prompted me to do some digging today. I read the article, watched the video clip, and my initial reaction was, "Aww c'mon. Hyperbole. Fear mongering by CNN and their 'expert'."

"Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many scientists are warning us of, and now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Yes, you read that correctly. Almost all of them are dead."

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The dispersants BP is using today is a variation of the Corexit dispersant used in 1989. They're using Corexit 9500 and 9527. The EPA freely admits that they just don't know about the exact toxicity of them on animals or humans...

(Excerpt) Read more at soitgoesinshreveport.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Science
KEYWORDS: 1of; blogneedshits; blogpimp; bp; conspiracynut; gulf; oil; oilspill; pimpmyblog
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1 posted on 07/01/2010 9:53:04 AM PDT by paustin110
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To: paustin110

EVERYONE If you eat carrots, you will die.


2 posted on 07/01/2010 9:59:19 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Rahm and George at Doe's when the knife came down)
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To: paustin110

Fine, let ACORN and SEIU clean up the spill.


3 posted on 07/01/2010 10:00:29 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: paustin110
…and all of those workers encountered  Dihydrogen Monoxide  during the clean up.
4 posted on 07/01/2010 10:01:35 AM PDT by Fundamentally Fair (Bush: Mission Accomplished. Obama: Commission Accomplished.)
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To: paustin110

Why do people keep posting these FUD articles, most of which are total BS? Never seen so many whiners in all my life.


5 posted on 07/01/2010 10:02:02 AM PDT by packrat35 (Planned Parenthood - Keeping healthcare costs down, one fetus at a time)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Watch this and everything will be right as rain, I promise ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0


6 posted on 07/01/2010 10:02:57 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: paustin110

BREAKING NEWS:

everyone in attendence at fords theather the night abe lincoln was killed is dead!!!


7 posted on 07/01/2010 10:03:59 AM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Drill Thrawl

Gee... I know several people that are still alive and kicking... sounds like Erin Brockovich is trolling for some ca$h.

LLS


8 posted on 07/01/2010 10:04:27 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: tatsinfla

LOL


9 posted on 07/01/2010 10:04:40 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: packrat35
Why do people keep posting these FUD articles, most of which are total BS?

It would be nice to see someone know the difference between a vapor and a fume.

10 posted on 07/01/2010 10:04:50 AM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
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To: paustin110

Wasn’t this just pulled earlier today? And why are you pimping a blog with this crap?


11 posted on 07/01/2010 10:05:25 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Why do we keep seeing this misleading and outright false claim about the Exxon Valdez clean up?

I know several people personally that worked beach clean up, skimmers, laying out booms. The company I worked for in Alaska was one of the largest suppliers of the workforce.

There is no difference in the health and mortality of this workforce then the rest of the population.

Posting this junk just makes the clean up of the current spill slower and more expensive.


12 posted on 07/01/2010 10:07:10 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: paustin110

I’m on a list of men waiting to go to the Gulf.

This past Tuesday, 20 of us took a HazMat training course at the company’s local office.

Two men there had helped with the Exxon Valdez cleanup. I believe they were walking around all vertical and stuff.

What are the odds?

Article is Bullcrap!


13 posted on 07/01/2010 10:09:14 AM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: paustin110
And this just in ...

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

14 posted on 07/01/2010 10:09:49 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: AngieGal

ping. Follow the link.


15 posted on 07/01/2010 10:10:21 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: paustin110
People working with dispersants are strongly advised to use a half face filter mask or an air-supplied breathing apparatus to protect their noses, throats, and lungs, and they should wear nitrile or PVC gloves, coveralls, boots, and chemical splash goggles to keep dispersants off skin and out of their eyes.

BP will provide these upon request.

Ummm, if this is true, maybe the masks should be mandatory...

16 posted on 07/01/2010 10:11:39 AM PDT by GOPJ (There is nothing unexpected about the failure of socialism/communism.freeper pieceofthepuzzle)
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Nearly Everyone

I guess that could also say many people who cleaned up after Exxon Valdez are still alive.

17 posted on 07/01/2010 10:11:46 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: paustin110

I am not at all sure about this story!


18 posted on 07/01/2010 10:11:52 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: BlueLancer

Robert C. “Kleagle” Byrd is also dead. As are most of his fellow shipyard workers from the 1940s.


19 posted on 07/01/2010 10:12:44 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: paustin110

Bushes fault???? Crickets


20 posted on 07/01/2010 10:21:38 AM PDT by crazydad
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