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Thursday, April 25th, 2013

3 Years After Deepwater Horizon, Report Shows Devastating Impact of Dispersant Used in ‘Cleanup’

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Source:     Government Accountability Project
Publication Date:     19-Apr-13
 Link: 3 Years After Deepwater Horizon, Report Shows Devastating Impact of Dispersant Used in ‘Cleanup’
Stephan:   Here is further evidence of the point I have been making about the ongoing nature of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and the consequences. Like the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion these disasters resulted from lack of proper oversight by corrupted, and consequently incompetent, regulatory agencies. This is what happens when profit becomes the only real priority, and government and corporate interests are intertwined. Click through to download the actual report.

WASHINGTON — Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) released Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf: Are Public Health and Environmental Tragedies the New Norm for Oil Spill Cleanups? The report details the devastating long-term effects on human health and the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem stemming from BP and the federal government’s widespread use of the dispersant Corexit, in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

GAP, the nation’s leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, launched this effort in August 2011 after repeatedly hearing from Gulf residents and cleanup workers that official statements from representatives of BP and the federal government were false and misleading in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Over the next 20 months, GAP collected data and evidence from over two dozen employee and citizen whistleblowers who experienced the cleanup’s effects firsthand, and GAP studied data from extensive Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Taken together, the documents and the witnesses’ testimony belie repeated corporate and government rhetoric that Corexit is not dangerous. Worse than this, evidence suggests that the cleanup effort has been more destructive to human health and the environment than the spill itself.

Conclusions from the report strongly suggest that the dispersant Corexit was widely […]

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