Wow, just wow. As many of you know, Vice is one of my personal favorites in the world of reporting and journalism. This past week, they did a piece on the BP Oil spill's lasting effects on the Gulf Coast. Anyone else check this one out? I love how the very people we elect to protect us, are the same ones authorizing the release of Corexin, which when combined with oil, is dangerously poisonous to the upper respiratory tract. The evidence is compounding, with nearly 7,000 cases of these infections coming from first responders and fishers, along with evident oil in the gills and surrounding areas of nearly 50% of the caught fish in the area.
problem with Vice is they insist on driving a narrative, they refuse to let facts speak for themselves
Haha, man I wish I could embed the videos of Vice on here, but not everyone has HBO Go. Here is a nice little article that summarizes the article and contains links to the science behind the chemicals released into the ocean as cleanup measures. http://www.whistleblower.org/blog/0...ght-lingering-health-impacts-bp-oil-‘cleanup’
here was the one from a few years ago <script height="360px" width="640px" src="http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=YjMwNmI4YjU2MGM5ZWRjMzRmMjljMjc5&ec=w5ZmVpMjomfbg4hljla6wB7o0SNIHz_F"></script>
They do have a narrative to sell, but what is your opinion on corexit? They had plenty of facts in the piece. Did you watch it? What did you think they misrepresented? There is a pretty good wiki article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit BP could have agreed to put someone on and try to refute the arguments made in the vice piece, but they chose not to. The best option might have been just to let the oil be on top and try to scoop it up since Corexit makes oil more toxic.
Interesting notation It seems like it has all but been forgotten not much is reported on it . . . except disasters These oil disaster on the other hand get swept under the rug Rocket River
Not just that, but they threatened to fire anyone who wore respirators while applying the chemicals or cleaning up the oil because it would depict a toxic scene that they didn't want. If the oil goes underwater, it is out of sight and out of mind. Just disgusting that the US government allowed them to use it despite knowing that a corexit-oil mixture is 52 times more dangerous than either corexit or oil alone. OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.
The EPA is full of crap and just as prone to corruption as any other government owned agencies... Besides, the government is the one that ordered the release of corexit despite knowing the dangers of the chemical. They "admitted" however, that they never did long term studies on the agent, and as some studies have concluded, the average age of death with exposure is 50. Here is a piece from an EPA official turned whistleblower Hugh Kaufman,
The ecological results from this spill have been surprisingly mild considering the incredible amount of crude oil released into the gulf.
The surprising part of this finding was how much of the crude oil IS STILL in the ocean and will eventually impact (and has already impacted all the fisheries in the area) the ocean.
