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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-28-10 06:29 PM
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Gulf Chemist: Mercenaries Hired By BP Are Now Applying Toxic Dispersant - at Night
Edited on Sat Aug-28-10 06:31 PM by kpete
Gulf Chemist: Mercenaries Hired By BP Are Now Applying Toxic Dispersant - at Night and In an Uncontrolled Manner - Which BP Says It No Longer Uses


Bob Naman is an analytical chemist with almost 30 years in the field, based in Mobile, Alabama. When WKRG News 5 gave Naman samples of water from the Gulf of Mexico, Naman found oil contamination, and one of his samples actually exploded during testing due - he believes - to the presence of methane gas or Corexit, the dispersant that BP has been using in the Gulf:

VIDEO:http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/08/chemist-mercenaries-hired-by-bp-are-now.html

But the story only starts there.

A few days ago, Naman was sent a sample of water from Cotton Bayou, Alabama.

Naman found 13.3 parts per million of the dispersant Corexit in the sample:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:zGa7dmAfS6oJ:www.epa.gov/bpspill/reports/ComparativeToxTest.Final.6.30.10.pdf+%22Comparative+Toxicity+of+Eight+Oil+Dispersant+Products+on+Two+Gulf+of+Mexico+Aquatic+Test+Species%22&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a


BP and Nalco - the manufacturer of Corexit - have said that dispersant containing 2-butoxyethanol is no longer being sprayed in the Gulf. As the New York Times noted in June:

Since BP and Nalco say that no dispersant containing 2-butoxyethanol has been sprayed in the Gulf for many months, that either means:

(1) BP has been lying, and it is still using 2-butoxyethanol. In other words, BP is still Corexit 9527 in the Gulf

or

(2) The dispersant isn't breaking down nearly as quickly as hoped, and the more toxic form of Corexit used long ago is still present in the Gulf.



However, Naman told me that he went to Dauphin Island, Alabama, last night. He said that he personally saw huge 250-500 gallon barrels all over the place with labels which said:

Corexit 9527


Naman took the following picture of the label (click on photo for larger image):

(The A version of the dispersant - 9527A - contains 2-butoxyethanol).

Naman further said he saw mercenaries dressed in all black fatigues, using gps coordinates, applying Corexit 9527 at Dauphin Island and at Bayou La Batre, Alabama. The mercenaries were "Blackwater"-type mercenaries, and Naman assumed they must have been hired either by BP or the government.

Naman also told me that Corexit 9527 is being sprayed at night, and that it is being applied in such a haphazard manner that undiluted 9527 is running onto beach sand. For confirmation of many of Naman's claims, see this, this and this.

ONCE AGAIN, ALTOGETHER-BP & THE GOVERNMENT ARE LYING!!!!!
tons of pics, links, more:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/08/chemist-mercenaries-hired-by-bp-are-now.html
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-28-10 10:18 PM
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1. Corexit
Corrects it. This soap corrects, BP hopes, BP's big mistake.

Check out any of the 'super grease cutting soaps' on the market shelves and you'll most likely find that 2-butoxyethanol crap as an ingredient. And a danger warning.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 04:33 AM
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2. dispersing the oil does nothing to get rid of it . . .
it just makes it less evident (and easier for wildlife to ingest) and will enable BP to claim, at some point, that all of the oil has been removed when in fact 80% of it will still be in the Gulf waters . . .
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 08:25 AM
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3. That's correct
Edited on Sun Aug-29-10 08:43 AM by BeFree
See my post on this from May 4.

"Why there is so little Oil on the Beaches"

They are placing a chemical dispersant directly on the leaks 5,000 feet deep.

They are spraying dispersants from the air.

The surface slick is being minimized.

Oil and water don't mix. But if you put soap into the mix it mixes quite easily. What they are doing is putting soap in the water and the oil is not floating anymore. It is being mixed into the Gulf waters.

Out of sight, out of mind, they hope.

The shore life may yet be saved.

But now we have a very large amount of deadly toxic waters just sitting there.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/BeFree/22
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 05:08 PM
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4. kick...rec.
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Kalun D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 05:18 PM
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5. K and R
But wait, I thought 75% of the oil was "gone" according to White House scientists?

Didn't the first family go swimming in the Gulf? (No wait, that was just a bay.)

Corexit Still Being Used
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/08/confirmed-corexit-still-being-sprayed.html

Toxic Saga Continues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IJK3pgnCV8&feature=player_ded#!

Blue Flu (Corexit)
http://www.datelinezero.com/?p=2333

BP investigation blocked by senate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rORbqq_FHoM&feature=player_dedbr%20/
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 05:20 PM
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6. K&R. nt
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 05:30 PM
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7. K&R
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 05:35 PM
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8. This will be allowed to go on for how long? I will
not believe that the President and Salazar do not know this is going on. Why in the hell is it okay with them? :puke: K/R
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-29-10 05:45 PM
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9. The Mercs were spraying it from Black Helicopters that were eerily silent in flight
its a conspiracy you know....

BP & THE GOVERNMENT ARE LYING!!!!!

:rofl:
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