Mercury in the Bay - KQED QUEST

A potent neurotoxin that can cause serious illness, mercury has been flowing into the bay since the mining days of the Gold Rush Era. Now a multi-billion-dollar plan aims to clean it up. But will it work?

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[MySiouxieQ]

1:40 sounds like good advice.

[DrRabbitz]

2:53 Bromine feels unloved :(

[SuperJewUnit]

@DrRabbitz I was thinking the exact same thing...

[hellzone100]

@MySiouxieQ LMFAO!!!!

[howlingsandy]

there is NO fish safe to eat that lives in the bay..beyond Hg is high selenium and other crap from farm runoff upstream that is toxic.. catching salmon coming it is t the only semi -safe fish to eat if you don't have any kind of toxic burden ...most suppositories are meds inside of shark oil... loaded with Hg..tuna should be banned. if you have dental fillings of amalgams and eat anti-oxidant ALA it will drag it into your brain .coriander/cilantro;/yin choy and chlorella too...all those do it

[howlingsandy]

national academy of sciences and.. in fact - the estimate is conservative. Go study the kinetics of pharmacology and metals and chelation... the experiments with sheep and mice where brains were allowed to be biopsied, and don;t forget how many lying profiteers and agents with faux sites like "fishscam" bribe or worse to easily tweaked the somewhat sold out and connected FDA and even the CDC can be by those with the power to do that for various reasons none good ones

[sincityfire]

@howlingsandy Hi, could you please site where you found your info? thanks. 60000 babies seems out of proportion from eating tuna.

[BIGMCBUFFLARGEHUGE]

there are bigger problems in the world than some mercury in fish

[howlingsandy]

@airrune31 most did once but in Canada if one thermometer breaks a hazardous waste team is dispatched. YOU better go take a 24-hour urine fractionated porpyhrine test and hope is done right. there are 138 symptoms of Hg poisoning and many are considered diseases so cause is rarely considered.

[howlingsandy]

there is NO benefit to even a small dose of metthyl or inorganic Hg. It is NOT in the waters so much from cinnabar but HERE coal burning DENTAL RUNOFF (each filling "amalgam" is 55% Hg and will pollute a 12 acre lake for a thousand years. All farmed fish OR and CA have it, National Board of Science says 60,000 babies in the USA are brain damaged each year from their mothers eating ONE can of (ANY - dont believe "fishscam" site coverup) tuna a week

[airrune31]

i love playing with this stuff