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so there is an amazing investigative piece on the b_p_ oil spill by gaya
named mark hurts gordon newsweek
and in the wake of the spill of the two hundred and ten million gallons of
louisiana crude oil
bt used one point eighty four million gallons of a substance called
core exit
i'll probably pronouncing that wrong but its c_e_o_ aren't you excited
and they use that to
cleanup this bill
now if you remember when the oil spill is happening there were planes
flying above
the water and dropping
liquid on it
that was the liquid
and at the time that we didn't know exactly what it was boss meaning the
public
or how it worked but some questions were raised
afterwards by various news outlets out here some of the headlines at the time
quote is bps remedy for the spill only making it worse
quote bps dispersant sparked toxic but not as toxic as the dispersed oil
and then here was the walker in two thousand in eleven quote
core exit makes oil spills worst
not better
scientists find
that should have been a tremendous red flag
so according to the workers
when the plane was dropping the substance
a lot of times it would end up eating them in the face hitting them in the
arms they would get wet from it
they were given mops to clean it up off the decks of the ship that they were on
it would end up getting on their boots
getting in their boots and all over their skin
and they were told by b_p_ it's quote
as safe as dishwasher dishwashing liquid
a few weeks after the spill
entered this today
the people who worked for round-the-clock attempting to clean up
the spill
got horrific lease etc
as a doctor in louisiana put it quote
he's never seen the this grouping of symptoms to gather skin problems
neurological impairments
pulmonary problems
now the situation dot really really bad in the article in newsweek a highlights
in specific cases
of a woman who has uncontrollable hands thousands like all over the place
but she has been
a hard time greeting from how hard
she ends up often she caught some blood
uh... you sca harm or radiation terms
and perhaps
the single most hazardous chemical compound found in core exit
is what's called too
you know
silent all
which is a substance that has been linked to cancers and other help health
impacts
among cleanup workers
on the nineteen eighty-nine exxon valdez oil spill in alaska
so we already had some evidence that the same thing that they used
ended up really making sick that people who work on the exxon valdez spill but
do you do anyway
it gets worse
according to bps owned a dead twenty percent above offshore workers in the
gulf
had levels of to new york bureau silent all
two times higher
than the level certified as safe by the occupational safety and health
administration
and cleanup workers or not the only victims
coastal residents also suffered
surely tell men
of the mississippi coastal town pass christian said quote my two year old
grandson and i
would play out in the yard you could smell loyal and stuff in the air but on
the news they were saying it's fine don't worry
well by october
the two-year-old became sick
he was having headaches papa respiratory infections ear aches
the night of his birthday parties passion to rush into the emergency room
he went in nine different doctors
but they were only able to treat just the symptoms
and they still haven't been able to cure
the worst part of all of this
the secret internal memo buried by the pain
suggests that they know
they were sacrificing the help of the workers
and they didn't care
in fact
a lot of the workers
that were doing the cleanup
complained that they were getting appropriate safety gear
to b_p_
like breathing masks and gloves and things like that
and bt instructed the people who are running the show
anybody who complains anymore
in other words you're not getting any safety masks
you think we care about you do in the cleanup
no you do are bidding in you shut up
and again the internal documents showed
they knew
that the substance was making people sick
but they went forward with an anyway
there so much to say about that now you know where to begin
whatever happen the basic humanity
not i'd get it by no you're gonna have corporations that always wanna make
money that's how corporations function
by definition
and i'll say i'm fine with that we need a government
to be the cop on the beat to be the watchdog to make sure
that they don't end up killing us
this is an example where lax regulations
led to people getting program this week sick
when they didn't have to get her and as we sick if they just had
proper safety equipment
or if the government just said hey you know what we've done testing we know
that this doubles and work very well and ask
par will help problems arose erected
but no since it was a medtronic mistakes were compound that on top of mistakes
and the less people who ended up being cared for where the heroes who ended up
trying to work to fix the problem
god they have of blatant disregard for the average american for the average
human being
they just simply don't care about them 'cause they don't know that
they are not the bodies that they see it the country club
the c_e_o_ of vp isn't familiar with the coastal towns in louisiana
this is a failure at all levels
a failure agreed on a mock where they can't
pitching in extra
hundred thousand bucks tab safety equipment for everybody
the failure of b pizza not
have better safety standards in place when uh... disaster happens
it's also a failure of the d regulatory system
in the united states government
that happened since reagan and already under democrats
that's has less regulation is always better
walton althought that i'll be the first one stand up and say here's your small
government inaction