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 ...
EVERYONE If you eat carrots, you will die.
Fine, let ACORN and SEIU clean up the spill.
Why do people keep posting these FUD articles, most of which are total BS? Never seen so many whiners in all my life.
Watch this and everything will be right as rain, I promise ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0
BREAKING NEWS:
everyone in attendence at fords theather the night abe lincoln was killed is dead!!!
Gee... I know several people that are still alive and kicking... sounds like Erin Brockovich is trolling for some ca$h.
LLS
LOL
It would be nice to see someone know the difference between a vapor and a fume.
Wasn’t this just pulled earlier today? And why are you pimping a blog with this crap?
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.
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!
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
ping. Follow the link.
BP will provide these upon request.
Ummm, if this is true, maybe the masks should be mandatory...
I guess that could also say many people who cleaned up after Exxon Valdez are still alive.
I am not at all sure about this story!
Robert C. “Kleagle” Byrd is also dead. As are most of his fellow shipyard workers from the 1940s.
Bushes fault???? Crickets
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