At 18 years old, and wanting to earn money for college, One person knows he has come down with anemia since the 'bioremediation' work of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup...now has a low red blood cell count... doctors couldn't figure out why: not dietary, not hereditary, colonoscopy indicated no internal bleeding, bone marrow OK, lymph nodes swollen throughout body, but lymph node biopsy was OK. So back to square one: his doctor doesn't know why he has a low red blood cell anemia.

And he's wondering... literature he recently obtained on Inipol EAP 22 (which was used during the EXXON Valdez Oil Spill clean up starting Aug, 1989) indicates blood damage possible, being hemolytic anemia. How to test for? Any effective treatment?

During that time, the company drew this man's blood - a second time - with very thick-tubed needles so as to not destroy whatever it was they were looking for? Since it was a new product being tested, would that mean anything? What were they looking for? Did they find the red blood cells were 'ragged' and 'beat up?'

He started feeling this tiredness a few months after the summer of '89 and worked again in the 1990 summer.

If there were a problem wouldn't the company know about it? Surely they wouldn't let him work another summer with the same Inipol EAP 22 -which he did- if their testing indicated health problems?

Since then there has been the depression, difficulty concentrating ... evidence of central nervous system damage, skin damage, etc 'The package' of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning.

There is concern for heart attack from this health damage; currently there are 'cracks' in his intestinal track: a more serious problem than he realizes. Autoimmune IBD?

He is a hard working, successful young man who loves his wife and children and wants to share his life with them. No one should give their life for a job they did one day.

Well, all 1,000 bioremediation workers are needed to help medical science know what happens to those exposed to 2-butoxyethanol. 

• The Inipol EAP 22 was too strong in this poison- pesticide - poison (12% by weight);
• The workers had too much exposure (14 days straight, 16 hours per day and both respiratory, skin and eye exposure); 
• And the protective equipment was only a rain suit (just 'protection' from rain)
  
  

I've thought recently that if anyone cared about what happened to the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers ... maybe there never would have been a 'gulf war syndrome' and the Dept of Defense never would have bought the Corexit to be moved around by the Navy Seabees, nor sitting around in hot warehouses for soldiers to be exposed to this horrible chemical!

Just to share with you ... the 'bioremediation workers' were all men, mostly young; a crew consisted of a supervisor, a safety engineer, a mechanic, pontoon captain, a skiff operator and 5 'beach workers' on a small boat. Recently I met a woman doing a day's work in Valdez. She exclaimed that she had a very good friend who worked on the Exxon Valdez oil spill and that he died in 2003 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as did his other 4 friends that he worked with ... died from the same cancer. The doctors, of course, suspected it was the job they did. Were they 'bioremediation workers?'

I pray that these will not get cancer. I heard a proclamation on the 700 club in 2002 that someone was being healed by God of lymphoma. So, I claimed that for all those exposed to this chemical.

I'm just recalling what a supervisor of several teams of bioremediation workers shared with me. He said that the Exxon men NEVER came on their boats; but would radio over to them, etc. However, just staying on their own boat didn't protect them from the harm of this chemical. The wind could blow it in their direction; getting it in one's eyes is the worst exposure.

He also said that this was the ONLY experiment that was monitored by Exxon themselves (Hoping for a money making chemical composition?) Each bioremediation crew had a Exxon Operations Rep and a VECO Operations Coordinator.

Letter to a Native Worker - Wench operator for Bioremediation crew

A worker shares about the First Week of the 'experiment'

Initial Effects

What Solvents were used?