What will Rick use for oil spill cleanup?

RE:  oil spill cleanup & what will be used behind Valdez Animal Shelter area - Rick Wade Co  has permission of City to do cleanup; ... $20,000 over weekend;  $75,000 next 2 weeks 
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In Monday's City Council meeting
 
I heard some of the discussion on this topic of the oil spill behind the Animal Shelter,
(Edge of Duck flats?)
 
Is this the first time we have had 'helps' for oil spill cleanup this close in to our Valdez?
 
Rick is not well from exposures in 89
 
I hope he gets no more exposure to any 2-butoxyethanol
 
Inipol has been shelved, but Corexit is worse
 
What is he going to use?
 
Such a farce that we believed there is even such a thing as 'bioremediation'
Too many carbons, they were literally 'spray 'n washing' the beaches
 
Inipol:  not much of a fertilizer considering it has a C:N:P ratio of 62:5:1  *
 

And in cold water no bioremediation takes place, per research I saw * alt *

 

Inipol EAP 22 is only 'technically a fertilizer' - actually a surfactant  *

Diann

Diann, I  really have no idea what procedure Rick will use.  You'll have to contact him to find out that kind of detail.  However, Rick is trained and certified to do this.  I have confidence he will take all prudent precautions.

John
John, unfortunately the currently allowed protocols are not safe & very health hazardous.  RCAC has taken a position against using dispersants in our Sound ... & closer in is much worse

pdf  -  AND  Learn what the MSDS says

: Good News!   -   RCAC position stand:

No dispersant use in Sound!

Why Exxon used a bad product for oil cleanup *

more on EVOS workers:  

 

NIOSH wanted to do more, but...

"They couldn't get Exxon to release its clinical data,

and Exxon controlled access to workers at remote locations." * alternate *

http://www.adn.com/evos /stories/T99032316.html

-  Anchorage Daily News, May 13, 1999

 

 

 It may really be a "surfactant", * Phosphorus?  really... *

but, by calling it a "fertilizer"

(which technically it could be considered to be),

there would be far greater public acceptance of it being sprayed onto a beach.

 

 

"I am amazed that a Biochemist did not (apparently) have the opportunity of evaluating your Inipol product, before approving  it for general use."  - field & lab tested simultaneously *

 "In regard to C:N:P:S ratios, these are not appropriate.  Further there are molecular "Keys", catalysts, micro nutrients to be considered as well.  

Surely, almost any Biochemist/Bacteriologist would know that" -

per a Specialist in the bioremediation field.

 
  • 1989 Spill affected over 300 miles of beach (This should be 1300 miles.)

    •  

  • 72 miles of beach were sprayed with 230 tons of surfactant (Inipol EAP 22) *   Exxon only admits to 25 tons, so how much was it really? "Senior staff biochemist Roger Prince told the conference on in-situ and on-site bioreclamation that along with more traditional forms of oil removal, Exxon spread 50,000 pounds of fertilizer over 74 miles of beach to supplement naturally available nitrogen and phosphorous." Environment Reporter, Vol. 23, No. 51, p3168 (April 16, 1993).

  • ....and 40 tons of granular nitrogen-phosphate fertilizer *

4-4-07

2-butoxyethanol *  *

 C6H14O2 / CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH
 
2-butoxyethanol in the water ... causes sea mammals to not have an interest in sex or procreation ... like the AK walrus
 
 
And whether this chemical contributes to sea ice melting
 

 

Did the 1993 Herring Run of Prince William Sound - Alaska

actually run into pockets of the chemicals used during the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup of 1989, 1991?

 

Talk to a fisherman today, and they will tell you that the herring have never fully returned to the Prince William Sound. 

Alaska Steller Sea Lion population declining *  

http://www.valdezlink.com /inipol/pages/steller.htm  - Any answers?

The Steller sea lion home page is a coordinated effort of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center and the Alaska Regional Office to provide information on research and management efforts pertinent to the  Alaska  Steller sea lion.                                                                
 
and in the air ... also
 
Contributes to global warming
 
ask a scientist/chemist?