bp oil spill effects on environment

In the early days of Gulf Oil LP disaster, when I heard the word of dispersants, my first thought was that it was a very bad idea. Why Why would we want to "disperse" something that must be collected, calculated and its contents? However, being not an expert on oil, I tried to keep an open mind.

This was open-minded "experts" in the industry Oil has enabled this mess. Each of us has done for convenience, not to interfere with our continued dependence on oil. We want our cars and driving, and not concerned. And that makes us all responsible.

This material is dispersed to 11 ppm, four times more toxic the oil itself, to 2.61 ppm. British Petroleum has been informed of this, then the following deliberate To add insult to injury. The most obvious reason in the application of dispersants is to make your spills seem less catastrophic, but which is better, the surface. Whatever column water below. No matter that there were no educational requirements, or contemplated, including, and therefore there is no data in the effects Potential marine life.

Why does BP decided to use this particular chemical? Well, just to keep track of the money. That we talk Corexit 9500, or his brother Corexit EC9527A, both have a horrible record of probable harm to human life, including childhood and deformations cancer, and, again, not reviewed the studies on the effects of a marine environment at all. It remains dumped in more than one million gallons a day, for a company with the name of Nalco had already invested in its production. And if you look, you will find the twists and financial benefits from the two companies.

Why, however, BP did not invest in better decision-boom, easier access and training for implementation Rapid such protection, not to mention the personal staff available for an immediate response to the likelihood of this potential accident? And the use of the pen is just one example of old age, the methodology has proven. What's new control technologies or the impact Innovative is still funded? Not even looked?

BP is now clear that, together with each oil company has invested nothing in comparison their benefit, denial of damages accident in the Gulf of Mexico carries weight today. But the head of this calamity rests ultimately on the shoulders of the United States. It was our lack of vigilance, our quality controls below to rotate the head crazy now illegal acts has this problem in our world. We must take a critical look at our own ignorance and arrogance.

There are hundreds of thousands of people have better ideas to remedy the spill, to plug the hole for the cleaning of the vast expanse of water already contaminated. But what happens to these ideas? They are drowning in bureaucratic nonsense spinner Corexit dispersant manufacturers never been bothered with. BP must ask anyone's permission to throw a layer additional known toxin in the upper waters of our Gulf?

Straw absorbs oil. The fleet may be collected and replaced. Why barriers of straw is not reversed, with just a bunch of other ideas? Instead we have a million gallons, and counting, a toxin called Corexit.

Bill Maher on the BP Oil Spill & the Environment