Toxic Corexit: Growing No. of Sick Cleanup Workers

Toxic Corexit Dispersant: Growing Number of Sick Cleanup Workers.

Amy Goodman interviews MERLE SAVAGE, a general foreman during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup of 1989. Merle wrote the book 'SILENCE IN SOUND' where she described the effects on Corexit and how she has suffered for years after inhaling the toxic dispersant in 1989.

MERLE SAVAGE'S WEBSITE:
http://www.silenceinthesound.com/stories.shtml

WILMA SUBRA was also interviewed about the the threats and scare tactics that the oil cleaning workers endure.



OTHER INFO: (article info on Corexit Chemicals)
Toxic Corexit Dispersant Chemicals Remain Secret As Feds Colluded with Big Business
By Mike Adams, Fri, June 11, 2010

After weeks of silence on the issue, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finally decided to go public with the list of ingredients used to manufacture Corexit, the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. There are two things about this announcement that deserve our attention:

First, the ingredients that have been disclosed are extremely toxic

Second, why did the EPA protect the oil industry's for so long by by refusing to disclose these ingredients until now?

As reported in the New York Times, Brian Turnbaugh, a policy analyst at OMB Watch said, "EPA had the authority to act all along; its decision to now disclose the ingredients demonstrates this. Yet it took a public outcry and weeks of complaints for the agency to act and place the public's interest ahead of corporate interests."

On the toxicity question, you could hardly find a more dangerous combination of poisons to dump into the Gulf of Mexico than what has been revealed in Corexit. The Corexit 9527 product has been designated a "chronic and acute health hazard" by the EPA.

It is made with 2-butoxyethanol, a highly toxic chemical that has long been linked to the health problems of cleanup crews who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill.

A newer Corexit recipe dubbed the "9500 formula" contains dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, a detergent chemical that's also found in laxatives. What do you suppose happens to the marine ecosystem when fish and sea turtles ingest this chemical through their gills and skin? And just as importantly, what do you think happens to the human beings who are working around this chemical, breathing in its fumes and touching it with their skin?

LINK TO FULL ARTICLE: http://www.naturalnews.com/028974_Corexit_dispersants.html

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[exovoxrock]

I would risk losing my job I wouldn't want to work for a company like this. I don't want to work for any corporate company. I would rather suffer a lifetime of poverty than to give in to these corporate, greedy, ogres. All they care about is money. Spraying Corexit profits. The real criminals are Astor, Bundy, Collins, Dupont, Freeman, Kennedy, Li, Onassis, Reynolds, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Russell, Van Duyn.

[Loaki00]

@exovoxrock Im so glad that more & more pple are awakening and seeing things that were hidden in plain sight before. I have dedicated hundreds and hundreds of hours researching, trying to understand how we (humanity) got to this place (psycho society) today. Only to realize that even the so called world leaders/elite are nothing more than puppets/slaves themselves, ordered to create so much misery and darkness on planet earth, but for what exactly? Everything is so toxic its so depressing :(

[alexythimia7]

they should be jailed for their crimes, im sure many more had a hand in this evil plan though and they will pay soon or when they meet their maker.

[mizaldus1111]

Say NO and don´t do this job - even when you loose your job!

Let BP owners and also all BP stock holders do this fucking job!

It is the same at Fukushima! Why don´t let TEPCO owners and stock holders do the cleaning? THIS fucking bastards make the money and normal people has to do the cleaning jobs and die from this shit !

I real don´t understand why people play this game with them! Let them play it themselfs!!!

[Spacew12]

just when i thougth my opinion of BP could not get any lower, They actively prevented people from having protrctive gear because it would look bad?

These people should be trialed for murder!

[Loaki00]

@signsoftwentytwelve Thank you so much, Ive just subbed and Im getting ready to watch all your videos, thank you so much for taking the time to create the series, your hard work is not in vain :) May you always be blessed.

Lo

[signsoftwentytwelve]

@Loaki00

I agree which is why we need to keep waking people up...

pls watch and spread this ongoing series "A Poisoned World" on my channel.

"One voice can make a difference.

A million can change the world."

MB

[Loaki00]

@SPAGHETTIMONSTER1 I came to the sad conclusion that humans will never ever stand up and fight this injustice.

911 was an inside job, the US invaded Iraq & Afghanistan caused even more damage, after a decade millions are dead the rest are suffering but we (humans) are more content talking about it rather than following up with constructive action. We have played a role in allowing this darkness to take over the planet. All I know is pple will always talk about it but noone will try & fix it :(

[SPAGHETTIMONSTER1]

@exovoxrock ,.. Agreed. if people would just take a few minutes to fact check stuff,.. jeeze,.. at least use their own brains

[exovoxrock]

Obama is just a puppet. The real criminals are pulling strings and lying to us. Obama supports the same agenda Bush supported. I encourage EVERYONE to go to archives.gov and read EVERY EXECUTIVE ORDER put into place. Corexit isn't the only chemical they spray. Just look up into the sky and watch the chem trails in plain view. Why do we deny genocide when it is right in front of our faces. Wake up people before it is too late. Look up your history. Our Founding Fathers warned us