GULF SHORES, Alabama - For seven months, (click title to entry - thank you) Richard Roberts walked the beaches of Baldwin County helping to clean up BP's mess. "I started off picking up tar balls on the beach and clean up. I went to d-con using a chemical that made me sick cleaning the tractors, all the oil off that."
It's workers like Roberts that will be the focus of a health study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences led by Dr. Dale Sandler. "My research team will reach out to 100 thousand people who took the clean up workers safety training and to others who were involved in some aspects of the oil spill clean up even if they were not part of the training program."
Sandler hopes to enroll at least 55 thousand people in the study from Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama. "The Gulf Study will help us learn if oil spills and exposure to crude oil, dispersants and fumes affect physical and mental health."...
There is something really scary about finding the teragenesis of those infant dolphins. If I may?
To begin dolphins are mammals. Granted they live in the water and their exposure is intense, but, at the same time they don't 'breath' through gills, they breath with lungs and air from the surface.
Their diet is fish. Dolphins are not vegetarians. They don't live on seaweed.
The dispersants BP insisted were safe did a really nasty thing, it placed the very toxic oil droplets and tar balls throughout the water column and for the first time ever in oil spills there is vats of oil settled to the bottom of the ocean.
Fish do breath through gills and have been exposed to the oil particles suspended in the water column and on the bottom of the sea. They in turn became a food source for gestating dolphins. It is more than likely that the fish the adult females ate during gestation caused these problems with their fetus.
Now, oil no matter the chemical composition of its toxicity can be breathed in through vapor as it is exposed to sunlight, salt water and heat, but, it can also be absorbed through the skin. Oil has a carbon structure and is highly reactive to any organic circumstance including that of living beings that come in contact with it.
Granted the dolphins were exposed to greater concentrations of these toxins from every aspect of their life, the 'idea' that Gulf of Mexico fisheries in the areas where these problems are being found with dolphins are safe for human consumption HAS TO BE strongly suspicious for toxins that will harm those that come in contact with them.
The teratogenesis being found in these dolphins are probably not the only manifestation of introduction of these toxins to the Gulf waters. There are probably tumors and developing tumors with the adults. I am confident all that will be discovered over time, but, the fact we might completely lose the dolphin population in the Gulf of Mexico has to be a reality. What also has to be a reality is that these are mammals no different than the people that have been exposed to those waters and the fish from the fisheries.
What also hits home with me is the overwhelming power plutocratic priorities played here that have increased the exposure of people to these toxins and the fish in those waters. I find that outrageous. It was "W"rong to do it at the time and it is even more "W"rong to do it now.
The pressure by Governors such as Bobby Jindal to demand a 'return to normal' in the face of all these facts that 'existed at the time of the disaster' is more than worrisome. What has begun to pervade the USA 'mind think' is that all tragedies are only temporary, superficial and should not impede economic gains and profits. That somehow the only way this can be resolved is for the 'trouble maker,' in this case BP, to survive the day to provide the monies needed to 'go forward' with any kind of rehabiliation.
There was a time in the USA when 'being cautious' was a very high priority in such disasters. That 'taking care' of people by 'preventing' more tragedy and hardship was prudent. That has all but been eliminated and it NOT due to the current status of the economy. It is directly due to 'mind think' institutued during the Bush/Cheney years when 'intelligence' was a hinderence to profits and the EPA was more toxic to the Plutocracy than could ever serve any citiznes best interest.
I remind. The people along the Gulf Coast that were screaming the loudest were those on marginal incomes 'as contractors' to the petroleum industry. Realizing they were never regarded as important enough to provide good standards of living to sustain such disasters only is rock solid proof of a management strategy to place pressures on governments to place profits before the well being of citizens.
BP and the plutocracy in the USA introduced a 'toxic mind think' that included 'death as an alternative' to their profitiabilty as life would not be good without a sustainable life style as DICTATED by the principles of profitibility and lack of morality in protecting the fisheries, resort economies and the citizens along the coasts of the USA.
The citizens of the USA have to come to terms with a sincere lack of esteem of their own well being before any of these dynamics can be resolved. I am very worried about the citizens of this country and their complete disregard for their well being over 'fiscal topics' that pervade their lives. The Gulf Coast is only one example. There is a lot of danger in the way Americans are thinking about their government in relation to private enterprise. Private enterprise should never have more power than the governments they operate under and the people they employ.
In Wisconsin, there is a dynamic at work that legislates power plants into a potential monopoly. That is not good governance and is harmful to the citizens.
There is a lot "W"rong here and citizens have to come to terms with that rather than being on 'fast forward' to profitability.
I have a very strong suspicion all of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster could have been prevented and that is basically the findings of the President's Commission. Not only that, but, greater harm to the citizens could have been prevented if there were no Governors that sold out to Wall Street.
I am very worried about the people of the USA and their chosen path to disaster at every turn.
It's workers like Roberts that will be the focus of a health study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences led by Dr. Dale Sandler. "My research team will reach out to 100 thousand people who took the clean up workers safety training and to others who were involved in some aspects of the oil spill clean up even if they were not part of the training program."
Sandler hopes to enroll at least 55 thousand people in the study from Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama. "The Gulf Study will help us learn if oil spills and exposure to crude oil, dispersants and fumes affect physical and mental health."...
There is something really scary about finding the teragenesis of those infant dolphins. If I may?
To begin dolphins are mammals. Granted they live in the water and their exposure is intense, but, at the same time they don't 'breath' through gills, they breath with lungs and air from the surface.
Their diet is fish. Dolphins are not vegetarians. They don't live on seaweed.
The dispersants BP insisted were safe did a really nasty thing, it placed the very toxic oil droplets and tar balls throughout the water column and for the first time ever in oil spills there is vats of oil settled to the bottom of the ocean.
Fish do breath through gills and have been exposed to the oil particles suspended in the water column and on the bottom of the sea. They in turn became a food source for gestating dolphins. It is more than likely that the fish the adult females ate during gestation caused these problems with their fetus.
Now, oil no matter the chemical composition of its toxicity can be breathed in through vapor as it is exposed to sunlight, salt water and heat, but, it can also be absorbed through the skin. Oil has a carbon structure and is highly reactive to any organic circumstance including that of living beings that come in contact with it.
Granted the dolphins were exposed to greater concentrations of these toxins from every aspect of their life, the 'idea' that Gulf of Mexico fisheries in the areas where these problems are being found with dolphins are safe for human consumption HAS TO BE strongly suspicious for toxins that will harm those that come in contact with them.
The teratogenesis being found in these dolphins are probably not the only manifestation of introduction of these toxins to the Gulf waters. There are probably tumors and developing tumors with the adults. I am confident all that will be discovered over time, but, the fact we might completely lose the dolphin population in the Gulf of Mexico has to be a reality. What also has to be a reality is that these are mammals no different than the people that have been exposed to those waters and the fish from the fisheries.
What also hits home with me is the overwhelming power plutocratic priorities played here that have increased the exposure of people to these toxins and the fish in those waters. I find that outrageous. It was "W"rong to do it at the time and it is even more "W"rong to do it now.
The pressure by Governors such as Bobby Jindal to demand a 'return to normal' in the face of all these facts that 'existed at the time of the disaster' is more than worrisome. What has begun to pervade the USA 'mind think' is that all tragedies are only temporary, superficial and should not impede economic gains and profits. That somehow the only way this can be resolved is for the 'trouble maker,' in this case BP, to survive the day to provide the monies needed to 'go forward' with any kind of rehabiliation.
There was a time in the USA when 'being cautious' was a very high priority in such disasters. That 'taking care' of people by 'preventing' more tragedy and hardship was prudent. That has all but been eliminated and it NOT due to the current status of the economy. It is directly due to 'mind think' institutued during the Bush/Cheney years when 'intelligence' was a hinderence to profits and the EPA was more toxic to the Plutocracy than could ever serve any citiznes best interest.
I remind. The people along the Gulf Coast that were screaming the loudest were those on marginal incomes 'as contractors' to the petroleum industry. Realizing they were never regarded as important enough to provide good standards of living to sustain such disasters only is rock solid proof of a management strategy to place pressures on governments to place profits before the well being of citizens.
BP and the plutocracy in the USA introduced a 'toxic mind think' that included 'death as an alternative' to their profitiabilty as life would not be good without a sustainable life style as DICTATED by the principles of profitibility and lack of morality in protecting the fisheries, resort economies and the citizens along the coasts of the USA.
The citizens of the USA have to come to terms with a sincere lack of esteem of their own well being before any of these dynamics can be resolved. I am very worried about the citizens of this country and their complete disregard for their well being over 'fiscal topics' that pervade their lives. The Gulf Coast is only one example. There is a lot of danger in the way Americans are thinking about their government in relation to private enterprise. Private enterprise should never have more power than the governments they operate under and the people they employ.
In Wisconsin, there is a dynamic at work that legislates power plants into a potential monopoly. That is not good governance and is harmful to the citizens.
There is a lot "W"rong here and citizens have to come to terms with that rather than being on 'fast forward' to profitability.
I have a very strong suspicion all of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster could have been prevented and that is basically the findings of the President's Commission. Not only that, but, greater harm to the citizens could have been prevented if there were no Governors that sold out to Wall Street.
I am very worried about the people of the USA and their chosen path to disaster at every turn.
Restoration Official: BP Reluctant to Fix Damage (click here)
Published: Mon, February 28, 2011 - 4:44 pm CST
Last Updated: Mon, February 28, 2011 - 4:48 pm CST
