The use of 2 butoxy ethanol is still prevalent today, The region 6 rrt pre-approved the use of Exxon's Corexit 9527 dispersant which contains 2 butoxyethanol. We do know of one instance where there was over spray on a coast guard vessel and the dispersant caused chipping of the marinem paint. We can only imagine what happened to coast guard personnel on the vessel. We will give you a comparison of OSE II and dispersants, and we thought we would let you know that approximately 50 linear feet of beach was cleaned up in Homer, Alaska utilizing OSE II.

    Exxon tested OSE II during the first winter, and Dr. Brown from University of Alaska Fairbanks called us after seeing the test by Exxon and told us that OSE II was the very best product that Exxon tested. But they never came to us to use OSE II. They were using the Valdez spill to test the French product Inipol which contained 2 butoxy ethanol which you have pointed out.  

The main reason Exxon pushed this toxic nightmare is because they spent a large amount of money procuring the rights to this horrible product. 

The spill that is still there could be easily cleaned up in one summer if they prestaged OSE II before summer and started applying using eductor systems, do not hold your breath waiting for Exxon to do the right thing. Exxon and big oil have found a unique way to rid themselves of the responsibility for their spills and in our comparison that follows you will see their ingenious way of shirking responsibility. feel free to cony

    The OSEI Corporation would like to discuss the merits of using OSE II instead of dispersants. Dispersants do not clean up spills they merely sink the spill increasing the spills area of impact. In the case of Exxon's product corexit 9527 or others in the corexit line, they have an extremely toxic solvent to get rid of the fingerprint; so once the oil is sunk their responsibility sinks with it. The problem is that when you apply dispersants they start sinking the oil and this will adversely impact the species that are swimming through the sinking oil. Then as the oil settles on the bottom, the dispersed oil then starts adversely affecting the bottom dwellers and then the currents move the oil into tar balls and this affects other areas on the bottom or the tar balls roll up on beaches affecting species that live off of intertidal zones and or humans. Dispersants do not clean up spills they move them!

    Our product is a unique bioremediation product that when it is applied to the oil (by the way there is no limited opportunity to apply OSE II) OSE II immediately attacks the molecular structure of the oil breaking it into smaller droplets. The oil is then rapidly detoxified reducing the toxicity to the environment (which is why spills are supposed to be clean up) and the adhesion properties are broken down so that overhead flying species can fly into the OSE II oil mixture and the oil will not adhere to them, the flammability is reduced and the oil is caused to stay afloat. So in the time it takes a dispersant to start sinking oil OSE II renders the oil virtually harmless. The next false roadblock usually put up against bioremendiation is that it takes to long. It will take OSE II 7 to 21 days depending on the weather and oil to convert all the oil to Co2 and water. I submit to you this is exceedingly faster than dispersant that do not ever clean up oil.

    With OSE II the spilled oil slowly disappears as the oil is broken into smaller droplets and the molecular structure starts breaking down. There is one great benefit using OSE II in that as the oil becomes a detoxified food source for bacteria, you actually increase the food chain along the entire chain in time, instead of sterilizing the entire area with an overly toxic solvent and oil.

    There is another benefit for the response personnel. OSE II has been ingested on U.S. television with no adverse affects. The Exxon dispersants with 2 butoxy ethanol in them; if they get on your skin they can cause kidney failure and death, with OSE II you can wash your hands with it with no adverse affect.

    OSE II eliminates fuels flammability and there is no risk of explosion or fire when storing OSE II. With the correxit dispersants they are a fire hazard, and an explosion hazards. OSE II is the common sense choice, so will your group make the best common sense choice for the environment and the responders.

     OSEI Corporation would like to introduce you to our environmental clean up product/process for numerous types of spills. See OSE II at www.osei.net