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Health Consequences of Deepwater BP




by Christophe » 24/07/13, 18:50

Remember this beautiful subject about the explosion of the deepwater platform: https://www.econologie.com/forums/louisiane- ... t9659.html

Health consequences 3 years later:

Three years after the explosion of the DeepWater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico and the spreading of more than 6,4 million liters of the dispersant Corexit, the health consequences of the "cleanup" of the oil spill are starting to appear.
Headaches, rashes, respiratory disorders, nausea, memory loss, chronic fatigue ... A hundred people reported these symptoms to Dr. Robichaux, whose office is located in the city of Raceland about sixty kilometers from New Orleans, notes Le Monde. They are also those of Steve Kolian, a resident of the region, interviewed by the Huffington Post. If no study allows to certify it, these disorders, which affect an increasing number of New Orleans residents and people working on the cleanup of the oil spill, would be linked to the massive spreading of Corexit, a solvent used to dissolve oil slicks. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is currently conducting an epidemiological survey of 33 people who have worked in this area and which will take 000 years to understand and analyze the health impact of this disaster. In the meantime, and despite the doubts, no link has yet been proven between the massive use of the solvent and these health problems.


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by Christophe » 25/07/13, 10:37

Here we go again my kiki!

Well it's gas this time ...

A gas platform is on fire after having been the victim of a violent explosion.

The situation is still very difficult for the Hercules 265 gas platform of the Walter Oil & Gas company, in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana.

Tuesday, for a reason still unknown, a violent fire broke out on board this mobile offshore platform of the American company. Luckily, none of the 44 workers working on board, at the time of the early warning, were injured, and all of them were able to be evacuated very quickly, just before the onset of the incident.

Since then, the platform has undergone various explosions which, if it does not threaten its integrity for the moment, have however caused its derrick, located vertically from the well, to collapse.

Hercules 265 is a natural gas pumping platform. Many emergency means are on site to fight against the disaster and especially to stop the natural gas discharges that still fuel the fire.


http://www.actunautique.com/article-exp ... 36774.html

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by moinsdewatt » 03/01/16, 19:32

Deep Water Horizon: the cure was worse than the disease

03 Jan 2016 Sciences and the Future

The chemicals spilled in 2010 to disperse the oil have suppressed naturally-devouring bacteria.

The remedy will have been worse than the disease: experiments from the University of Georgia (United States) show that if the chemical dispersants spilled by plane after the Deep Water Horizon disaster (see S. and A. No. 763, September 2010 and n ° 778, December 2011) have cleaned the surface of the water well, they have however destroyed a population of bacteria naturally greedy in oil. Suddenly, the black and heavy oil would now line a large part of the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Back in 2010. A leak from a BP deep-water well borehole spills 172 million liters of oil into the ocean. In response, nearly 7 million liters of Corexit 9500 are dropped to "degrade oil on the surface and in deep water". The "problem", according to marine scientist Samantha Joye, who has tested the various ocean plumes and their effects on 50 bacteria in the laboratory, is that this dispersant - authorized - does not entirely degrade oil. Worse, it promotes the expansion of the microorganisms Collwellia which "unravel" the oil, while severely limiting the proliferation of Marinobacter which best degrade heavy crude. The results are now on the desk of the US Environmental Protection Agency.


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by Flytox » 03/01/16, 23:18

It earns billions, but studying / evaluating preventively what to do to avoid the worst is always too expensive. After we calm the shit by making disappear what is seen most ..... on the surface, even if they know very well that they have only moved the problem on the seabed.

They deserve an international boycott .....
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