CONTAMINATION - Coming Soon to Food Near You - Produced by Nalco Corexit - Directed by Barack Obama

Investigating Obama, American Daughter ^ | 6/24/2010 | Nan Matthis

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by Nancy Matthis at American Daughter

The toxic chemical dispersant Corexit 9500 was pumped into the Gulf to counter the oil spill. Now it appears to have gassified, entered the atmosphere, and rained down on inland farmers, damaging crops and killing songbirds:

One month ago, on May 24, The European Union Times wrote about a report prepared by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources for President Medvedev -- Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America:

A dire report prepared for President Medvedev by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources is warning ... that the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with "total destruction".

Russian scientists are basing their apocalyptic destruction assessment due to BP's use of millions of gallons of the chemical dispersal agent known as Corexit 9500 which is being pumped directly into the leak of this wellhead over a mile under the Gulf of Mexico waters and designed, this report says, to keep hidden from the American public the full, and tragic, extent of this leak that is now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day.

The dispersal agent Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco Holding Company of Naperville, Illinois that is four times more toxic than oil....

A greater danger involving Corexit 9500, and as outlined by Russian scientists in this report, is that with its 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when combined with the heating Gulf of Mexico waters, its molecules will be able to "phase transition" from their present liquid to a gaseous state allowing them to be absorbed into clouds and allowing their release as "toxic rain" upon all of Eastern North America.

Even worse, should a Katrina like tropical hurricane form in the Gulf of Mexico while tens of millions of gallons of Corexit 9500 are sitting on, or near, its surface the resulting "toxic rain" falling upon the North American continent could "theoretically" destroy all microbial life to any depth it reaches resulting in an "unimaginable environmental catastrophe" destroying all life forms from the "bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top"....

By June 10 the San Fransico Chronicle reported crop damage -- BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage:

....It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi.

A mysterious "disease" has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or "disease"....

The warning on the Corexit 9500 label is clear enough:

"Keep container tightly closed. Do not get in eyes, on skin, on clothing. Do not take internally. Avoid breathing vapor. Use with adequate ventilation. In case of contact with eyes, rinse immediately with plenty of water and seek medical advice. After contact with skin, wash immediately with plenty of soap and water. Wear suitable protective clothing."

Now the stuff is raining down on us!

It has been well-known in the oil industry since the 1980s that oil-eating microbes can clean up the oil with no lasting environmental impact. They were developed at the behest of the Texas Land Office and the Texas Water Commission, and used successfully in 1990 to clean up a large oil spill in Galveston (see Business Insider -- An Oil-Eating Microbe That's Been Around Since 1989 Could Single-Handedly Clean Up BP's Entire Oil Spill).

6/1/2010 video Gulf Oil Spill - Microbes that will eat oil within weeks

So why is Corexit 9500 being used in the Gulf of Mexico? Back on May 30 blogger Jo Anne Moretti published a Bombshell Exposé based on meticulous and lengthy research that she had performed showing that Democrat party bigwigs including Warren Buffett, Maurice Strong, Al Gore, and George Soros reaped huge profits from the sale of Corexit. Not only that, but her findings show that some increased their holdings preceding the disaster:

There is big money and even bigger players in this scam. While they are letting the oil blow wide open into the Gulf, the stakes and profit rise.

The Dolphins, Whales, Manatees, Sea Turtles and fish suffocate and die. The coastal regions, salt marshes, tourist attractions and the shore front properties are being destroyed, possibly permanently. The air quality is diminished. The Gulf of Mexico fishing industry is decimated.

All to create a need for their expensive and extremely profitable poison.

By now an outraged public has become aware of the microbes, which were warehoused in large quantities and available for use in the Gulf. But it is too late to use them now that Corexit has depleted the oxygen in the water. The microbes need oxygen to live long enough to eat the oil.

The European Union Times report sums it up best:

...the greatest lesson to be learned by these Americans is that their government-oil industry cabal has been just as destructive to them as their government-banking one, both of which have done more to destroy the United States these past couple of years than any foreign enemy could dare dream was possible.

But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place.

H/T: Serg N of Common Sense Patriots Related reading:

JoAnneMor -- Bombshell exposé. The real reason the oil still flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

[Note: Jo Anne Mor represents the best of the Blogosphere, an ordinary blogger whose dedicated work uncovers hidden evils that endanger us and makes them public knowledge.]

The Next Right -- BP's strange Democrat bedfellows

One of the top media consultants for British Petroleum gave free rent to a politician who became White House Chief of Staff. And, no, this was not Karl Rove giving a freebie to Andy Card. No, the recipient of the favor was Rahm Emanuel and the benefactor was Stanley Greenberg....

© Nancy Matthis, all rights reserved, published with permission.

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http://coto2.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/bp-oil-spill-corexit-dispersants-suspected-in-widespread-crop-damage/

BP oil spill Corexit dispersants suspected in widespread crop damage

Posted on June 15, 2010 by coto2admin

By Yobie Benjamin
San Francisco Chronicle

Just when you thought the damages BP could cause was limited to beaches, marshes, oceans, people’s livelihoods, birds and marine life, there’s more.

BP’s favorite dispersant Corexit 9500 is being sprayed at the oil gusher on the ocean floor. Corexit is also being air sprayed across hundreds of miles of oil slicks all across the gulf. There have been widespread reports of oil cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress, dizziness and headaches.

Corexit 9500 is a solvent originally developed by Exxon and now manufactured by the Nalco of Naperville, Illinois. Corexit is is four times more toxic than oil (oil is toxic at 11 ppm (parts per million), Corexit 9500 at only 2.61ppm).

In a report written by Anita George-Ares and James R. Clark for Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc. titled “Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Corexit Products: An Overview” Corexit 9500 was found to be one of the most toxic dispersal agents ever developed.

According to the Clark and George-Ares report, Corexit mixed with the higher gulf coast water temperatures becomes even more toxic. The UK’s Marine Management Organization has banned Corexit so if there was a spill in the UK’s North Sea, BP is banned from using Corexit.

The danger to humans can be expected. The warnings on the Corexit packaging is straightforward. Breathing in Corexit is not recommended.

It seems NALCO Corexit is also dangerous to crops.

It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi.

A mysterious “disease” has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops. There is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage or “disease”.

There is no other explanation for the crop damage. Everything points to something that has a widespread effect on plants and crops. While no one precisely knows, all the signs point to BP’s use of aerosolized Corexit brought inland by the ocean winds or rain.

Remember acid rain? Now it seems we could have toxic dispersant rain.

Ed. Note: Or, this could be from acid rain caused by Lucite International’s poisonous gas vapor leak a couple weeks prior:

Vapor leak at Lucite plant north of Frayser causes evacuation of about 200
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/may/25/vapor-leak-dupont-plant-frayser-shuts-down-some-bu/?print=1
By Ryan Poe
Originally published 09:30 a.m., May 25, 2010
Updated 11:48 p.m., May 25, 2010

About 200 people were evacuated Tuesday morning in the area north of Frayser after a glitch caused what was described as sulfuric fuming at the Lucite International chemical plant.

Roads within a one-mile radius of the plant, located on Fite Road near U.S. 51, were closed just after the toxic fumes were reported at about 9 a.m., said Shelby County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Steve Shular.

People were able to return to their houses and businesses after the air quality had been tested, shortly before 11 a.m., Shular said.

The toxic fumes were created in the sulfuric acid regeneration facility in the northeast corner of the plant, said Lucite safety, health and environmental manager Tom Eubank. The facility is scheduled for maintenance every 30 days and was about to be checked.

The unexpected glitch that caused the mixture of sulfur dioxide and trioxide is being investigated, Eubank said. He said the facility was shut down before fumes could reach “dangerous concentrations.”

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Chemical Fumes Lead to Evacuation
Updated: Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 12:39 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 25 May 2010, 10:22 AM CDT
http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/052510-chemical-leak-leads-to-evacuation

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Potentially dangerous chemical fumes at the Lucite International plant near Millington led to the evacuation of businesses and residences along Highway 51 and Fite Road Tuesday morning.

The Lucite plant, which is next to the Dupont plant, started fuming a vapor mix of sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide, which reacts with moisture in the air to create a dense sulfuric acid mist. Sulfur trioxide can be harmful if ingested or inhaled, and can also cause skin and severe eye irritation on contact.

Plant spokesman Tom Eubanks said there was not a chemical leak, but referred to the situation as “a fuming condition” as the sulfuric acid regeneration plant was started up.

The Shelby County Fire Department and HAZMAT teams were called in to assist.

Several businesses along Highway 51 between Fite Road and the Loosahatchie River in about a one mile radius were evacuated until emergency crews safely cleared the scene.

Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, said 30-40 people in the immediate area were affected by the evacuation.

Marney Gillmore, the manager of the Lucite International plant, said that the all-clear was sounded around 10:15am, about an hour after vapor was found escaping.

Gillmore said about 200 plant employees were instructed to follow emergency procedures and went to safety sites within the plant, which was not evacuated.

No injuries were reported.

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[Othniel]

Oh my Lord. Is this for real? If it is, here comes famine, our economy destroyed, everything. We're toast.

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I’m sure we’ll find out more (and they need to shut off the flow, so it won’t become a catastrophe for the entire Gulf and gulf states).

[mplsconservative]

From the article posted:

But to their greatest enemy the Americans need look no further than their nearest mirror as they are the ones who allowed these monsters to rule over them in the first place.

Yes, it's us EVIL Americans again. How about the horny poodle boy who was almost president? Yes, I guess he is an American, but in name only.

[Eagles6]

Everyday it is more and more evident that obozo and the feds have every intention of making this as disastrous as possible.

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[Quix]

horrific and needlessly so.

What is the timeline from harvest of Shrimp in the gulf to earliest appearance in the freezers at Walmart, Safeway etc?

Seems like we need to find out and also if there’s any way to find out where shrimp etc. comes from.

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Everyday it is more and more evident that obozo and the feds have every intention of making this as disastrous as possible.

Just as with the Mortgage Meltdown, "Stimulus," etc., etc., it seems to be Trotsky-Gramsci-Alyinski-Cloward-Piven-Ayers-Soros-Pelosi-Obama. Bring on the revolution....

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Don’t know about the shrimp timeline.

The timeline that stands out in my mind is the one with Maurice Strong’s 2012 deadline.

[BuckyKat]

From Treehugger.com:

The fact is that we are running a huge ecological experiment in the Gulf. But the amount of chemicals going into the environment, even from the direct application of chemicals to combat the oil, is dwarfed by the amount of chemicals used by consumers and industry every day. As the questions first arose about the ecological safety of the dispersants BP is using, reports indicated that over 2.2 million liters of the sprayed dispersant and over 300 thousand liters of the underwater dispersant had been released. Even assuming the sulfonic acid salts in these dispersants, probably the ingredients of most concern, are present at the higher end of the range Nalco discloses, one could project that a couple thousand tons of active chemical will be used by the end of this operation.

Compare that to the millions of tons of these chemicals that go into our wastestreams every year from the normal everyday products we use. Even if you assume, optimistically, that 100% of this chemical waste goes to waste treatment at 99.9% efficiency, our ordinary use of these chemicals rivals the BP oil spill treatment every year. Is it time to take the anger at the oil spill and turn it into energy for change? It is not only accidents we need to prevent...

[Irenic]

The warning on the Corexit 9500 label is clear enough:

“Keep container tightly closed. Do not get in eyes, on skin, on clothing. Do not take internally. Avoid breathing vapor. Use with adequate ventilation. In case of contact with eyes, rinse immediately with plenty of water and seek medical advice. After contact with skin, wash immediately with plenty of soap and water. Wear suitable protective clothing.”
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Not that I think using this stuff is good, but I think we should try to stay calm and not get hysterical.

Have you read the back of a bottle of Clorox?

The warnings on it are almost identical.

Clorox Cleanup with bleach says you should wear protective eye wear when using it.

Heck, pool chemical labels are downright frightening to read.

[bitt]

PINGO

[boycott]

http://lmrk.org/corexit_9500_uscueg.539287.pdf

Here’s a link to the Corexit 9500 MSDS. It may be good for Warren Buffett, Soros, and Gore but it isn’t good for the Gulf of Mexico and all the sealife, wildlife, and people that live along the coast.

[Habibi]

I think the Ruskies are full of beans on this one. The Gulf has a very large volume of water. It has to get to the surface to evaporate. The surface area vs. total volume is rather small, therefore it would take quite a while for it to evaporate significantly. The amount of time required to evaporate the volatile portions of the mixture would tend to reduce the air carried concentration significantly.

Would it adversely affect plant life? Maybe, but I don't believe that anyone knows enough about the dynamics that affect the concentration in rainwater, let alone whether it could actually adversely affect the growth of plants in the concentrations that rain water “might” have in it. Would it reach the East Coast? No one really knows. What might you guess? Would it kill “millions” of people like some news sources are screeching? What do you suppose?

There's a lot of BS going around about this stuff, and very little actual scientific evidence. Remember when Carl Sagan, and his scientific cronies, stated that the Middle East oil well fires were going to plunge us into something akin to a “nuclear winter”? Well, they were all shooting from the hip. They had no scientific evidence to make such prognostications. In short their predictions never transpired because they didn't have enough knowledge to make those conclusions. Especially embarrassing for scientists who errantly lecture us on systems that they don't understand. I'm picking on scientists as I've a few scientific degrees myself, but I learned enough to realize what I didn't know, so it's a fair critique.

As to the Gulf region being “permanently” destroyed by oil? Again, horse throw of the highest order. Oil will screw up the wetlands for a few years, but oil doesn't stick around very well. It evaporates, is oxidized by UV, and eaten by bacteria. Eventually, nature will repair itself. It might not happen in my lifetime, but I'm a geezer already. 100, 200 years, it's really a snap of the fingers to nature. These subterranean reservoirs of oil have let loose in the past, and the Gulf's still there (but the Gulf's been around for a bazillion years, even though we won't be). Don't worry about nature, it'll take care of itself. Time is on its side.

Best to concentrate on plugging the leak, and pumping as much of that dangerous oil out of the ground before it can leak again. Think of oil exploration as a method of cleaning up potential oil spills. The sooner you can remove it, the safer we'll all be.

Oh, yes. Never, ever trust the SF Chronicle for a worthwhile story on the environment. They're incapable of summoning either the scientific acumen, or the objectivity to do the job properly.

Just sayin’.

[Persevero]

I sympathize with the “greatest enemy” statement somewhat. How the majority of the voters in this country could have voted for this clown is absolutely unfathomable to me.

[kingu]

2.5 million liters is 15,724 barrels, as in barrels used to measure oil. That is the total release (according to reports) of the dispersant over the lifetime of the spill. This is compared to roughly 19,000 barrels of crude oil spilling from the Deepwater wildcat well head per day.

I know this is going far, far out on a limb here, but somehow I think that 50 times the volume of crude oil is going to pretty much negate the minuscule risk as listed in the material safety sheet you posted for handling the fully concentrated form of dispersant.

Personally, I think the dispersant is a total waste of time. What with the up to 40% concentration of methane in the crude stream, as well as the pressure differences of the pipe (8,000 pounds per square inch) vs surface pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch, I gotta go with the natural form of a refinery cracking tower being pretty efficient at breaking up that crude before it reaches the surface.

As for this report from Russia, I take it with the same scientific scrutiny I would apply to any checkstand tabloid.

[Eagles6]

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore.

[sockmonkey]

Seems like we need to find out and also if there’s any way to find out where shrimp etc. comes from.

At my Walmart, most of the shrimp is from China, and Indonesia.