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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
OSE II is used for most hydrocarbon based
contaminants, including pesticides, PCB's,
TCE's, PCE's, fuels, including Aviation gas,
and oils refined, or unrefined. OSE II is used
for soil spills, for ground water, for
concrete, and asphalt spills, for bilge water,
and ballast water, for tanks,
and cargo hull cleaning, for fresh, and salt
water spills, in estuaries, and intertidal
zones, for manufacturing process clean up, in
refineries, including water process clean up,
in waste water treatment plants, for waste
water pump stations, for AFFF clean up, and
for deicing agent. |
