"Slow down and enjoy life. 

It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast 

- you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."

You Can Help... Save Our Marine Environment... Our People.

In addition to oil exposure.. use of surfactants.. was harmful to workers

... www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/worker.htm

Comments on Corexit Testing in 1989:

"It didn't make much sense to pour the kerosene-based chemical on Alaska beaches" . . . EPA rep
http://www.adn.com/evos/stories/EV147.html  and also...

"If I sound cautious, it's because I am," said Alaska Commissioner of Environmental Conservation Dennis Kelso. "Any chemical treatment . . . carries risks. Just as we would not continue hosing down a beach until everything was clean, but dead, neither would we trade clean rocks for poisoned water."

Does anyone know where Dennis Kelso is today?  Would like to contact him.

Also looking for Coast Guard Vice Adm. Clyde Robbins, the on-scene coordinator for the spill cleanup - now retired

AND looking for the workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup!

"Dispersants have not been the first line of defense for oil spill cleanup in the U.S. because dispersants present toxicity threats and health threats to those applying the products."  uspoly.com/dispersit

"As stated in MSDS, Corexit 9500 can cause central nervous system depression, nausea, and unconsciousness. It can cause liver, kidney damage, and red blood cell hemolysis with repeated or prolonged exposure through inhalation or ingestion according to the MSDS. The threat to human health via exposure is characterized as 'MODERATE'." uspoly.com/dispersit

Don't  put  POISON  in  Alaska's ocean

Exxon Testing Planned 2003*   www.valdezlink.com/corexit.htm

Now with 38% surfactant, classified as a poison: 

 2-butoxyethanol, and who knows what else

... Don't use Corexit!

It is known that at 4 degrees C not even biodegrading takes place,

The chemicals could pollute for decades!

How much is too much?  *

1993 Herring?

You can help... ASK EPA,   ASK Congress to STOP it!

http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/contact_congress.htm

The Bigger Overview:  *

What really went wrong during chemical use 

... certainly of Inipol EAP 22 ... during the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup...

was the amount of time workers were exposed and inadequate protection

and the hazards of a high concentration * of 2-butoxyethanol in the product!

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