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Combined with millions of gallons of Corexit, a deadly dispersant, the mix is extremely toxic and dangerous, the Gulf poisoned and potentially lethal for decades, perhaps generations. Nothing in it should be ingested, nor is living close by safe, what BP, Washington and the major media won't explain. As a result, the health and welfare of millions of residents are at risk as well as anyone eating Gulf seafood. Responsible federal and state officials would ban it. Instead the all-clear's been given. Don't be fooled.
Marine toxicologist Riki Ott said if she lived in the area with children, she'd leave. On July 31, she flew over affected parts of the Gulf with a documentary filmmaker and local shrimper, a man who grew up the area, fearing his livelihood was destroyed, saying:
"I've fished in all these waters - everywhere you can see. It's all oiled. This is the worst I've seen. This is a heartbreak...."
At low altitudes, oil was visible everywhere, despite most of it submerged. "As far as we could see: Oil....The official story does not match the reality (below or what local residents report). BP has created a Frankenstein."
Minimally, over 44,000 square miles of ocean are contaminated, an area comparable to Ohio or Pennsylvania. Some estimates say nearly 80,000, more than Florida and Massachusetts combined, the health hazard immense, the waters causing "internal bleeding and hemorrhaging in workers and dolphins alike," according to senior EPA analyst Hugh Kaufman, a rare responsible official.
On Democracy Now, he accused BP and the administration of cover-up and deceit, including using dispersants "to hide the volume of oil that has been released," far more than official reports, to save BP up to billions in fines. "That's the purpose of using dispersants, not to protect the public health or environment. Quite the opposite."
After 9/11, Kaufman was ombudsman investigator for Ground Zero, exposing EPA lies about air safety, causing widespread illnesses and death, seeing a repeat for Gulf residents, "EPA administrators saying the air is safe and the water is safe."
False, because of "dispersants mixed with oil and air pollution." The official lie endangers tens of thousands, maybe millions, retired toxicologist and forensic chemist John Laseter explaining that the oil-solvent mix sticks on biological tissue, wreaking havoc.
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