I am putting this on my website for the states and people who are located near the BP oil leak that is continuing to spew oil therefore “dispersants” are being used which are dangerous to anyone in the vicinity.  Here are two article excerpts and links.

Basically stay away from the beaches where these chemicals are used as they are toxic to normal people and in my opinion, very dangerous for anyone who is immune compromised.  Read the articles below and please tell your friends.  Feel free to copy this page and send via emails, we must get the word out to those  communities in the vicinity of the oil leak.

Dispersants Making People Sick, Causing Even More Damage

In more damage control efforts, BP has sprayed more than 1 million gallons of chemical dispersants into the Gulf since the oil spill began, and cleanup workers have been complaining of dizziness, nausea and other symptoms ever since.

The chemicals in dispersants Corexit 9500 and 9527 are toxic. The New York Times reports:

“Corexit 9527, used in lesser quantities during the earlier days of the spill response, is designated a chronic and acute health hazard by EPA. The 9527 formula contains 2-butoxyethanol, pinpointed as the cause of lingering health problems experienced by cleanup workers after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, and propylene glycol, a commonly used solvent.”

According to Carys Mitchelmore, a researcher at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, the detergent-like brew of solvents, surfactants and other compounds are known to cause a variety of health problems in animals, including:

* Death

* Reduced growth

* Reproductive problems

* Cardiac dysfunction

* Immune suppression

* Altered behavior

* Carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic effects

Corexit products were actually removed from a list of approved treatments for oil spills in the U.K. more than a decade ago after the agents were linked with human health problems including respiratory, neurologic, liver, kidney and blood disorders, and “harmful effects” on sea life.

In fact, the EPA’s table comparing toxicity and effectiveness shows that Corexit is toxic at much lower levels than many of its competitors. Only 2.61 ppm of Corexit 9500 is required to kill 50 percent of fish exposed to it within 96 hours.

Sayer Ji, founder of InformationToInspireChange.com, clarifies this by explaining that the Corexit itself actually only has a toxicity level of 25.20 parts per million. The test oil the EPA uses has a higher toxicity of 10.72 ppm. It is when you add the Corexit to oil at a 1:10 ratio that the combined toxicity of this third entity “dispersed oil” goes all the way to 2.6 ppm.

So, why would BP choose Corexit, given its higher toxicity and poor performance in handling Louisiana crude?

As it turns out, BP has financial ties with Nalco (the manufacturer of Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527A), which explains why they have now poured more than 1,021,000 gallons of it into the Gulf and have another 805,000 gallons on order. Because of these industry ties, Corexit is the only dispersant available in the massive quantities “needed” for an oil spill of this size.

In fact, they used up all existing stockpiles of Corexit 9527A, the older and less desirable formula, and Nalco states it will be discontinued, now that it has been used up.

And if it is toxic enough to be discontinued, why was it being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico in the first place?

It’s almost as if the federal government were actively working to worsen the problem and expand the impact of the disaster.

Dispersants Toxic to People, Too

In humans, the toxic effects are also well known. The MSDS for Corexit 9527A lists the human health hazard as “acute,” stating:

“Excessive exposure may cause central nervous system effects, nausea, vomiting, anesthetic or narcotic effects. Excessive exposure to 2-butoxyethanol (an active ingredient) may cause injury to red blood cells (hemolysis), kidney or the liver.

Prolonged and/or repeated exposure through inhalation or extensive skin contact with EGBE (2-butoxyethanol) may result in damage to the blood and kidneys.”

These chemicals are being sprayed into the ocean in unprecedented amounts, and given their toxicity and unknown impacts on marine life and humans when used in such massive quantities, the EPA has asked BP to switch to a less toxic dispersant, giving the company 24 hours to “identify a less toxic alternative” and three days to begin using it.

The chemical dispersants, by the way, are not a silver bullet to miraculously make oil disappear. Oil spill dispersants only alter the chemical and physical properties of the oil, making it more likely to mix with seawater than deposit on the shoreline.

So what the dispersants do is re-direct the oil, making its impact perhaps less so on birds and shore-dwelling animals, but more so on fish, coral reefs, oysters and other marine life that live in the deeper waters. It essentially “hides” the oil out of view, below the surface where news cameras can’t see it.

More… http://tinyurl.com/38zcn7d

We have decided to forgo any beach going as I have no idea how far these chemicals will travel in the tides.  Kayla is still immune compromised and I consider these chemicals a huge risk for any persons, young or old, who have any type of medical issues.

No one is mentioning the basic water cycle. You remember, those school projects where you had to show the water evaporating, going up into the clouds, coming back as rain, going into the earth, and repeating itself.  So far, none of the articles are mentioning this cycle and the impact of over a million gallons of chemical stew being added to this cycle.  I shudder to think of this ramification.

Sorry about the bad tidings but I felt it my duty to spread the word.

Debbie