Worse and Worse Use of Chemical Dispersants on
Oil Spills is Not the Answer
Following the explosion of the Deep- water Horizon oil rig on April 20, Brit- ish Petroleum (BP) has released more than 1 million gallons of the chemical dispersant Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico, despite the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warning that it is the most toxic of the 18 dispersants it has tested. While slowing the surfacing of the gushing oil, it may do far more to hide the true magnitude of the disaster from public scrutiny than to save the beaches.
Dispersants are classified by the
EPA as bioaccumulators, which are known to drive toxic hydrocarbons from crude oil directly into marine life, while distributing toxins throughout the water column, where they can do the most harm to the widest range of species. The public already has seen how use of chemical dispersants has accelerated the oil’s entry into the loop current and Gulf Stream, where it now poses a significant threat to the health of the world’s oceans. Experts explain that accelerat-
ing the biodegradation of the oil by ocean bacteria using dispersants causes oxygen depletion and animal death. Making the problem worse, dispersing the problem this way also hinders the recovery of the oil through siphoning, and enables it to slip more easily under protective booms into beaches and wetland habitats.
OilSpillTruth.wordpress.com details the issue. Sign the petition at ThePe-
titionSite.com/25/stop-the-use-of-dis- persants-in-the-gulf and contact your state representatives to object (via USA. gov/Contact/
Elected.shtml).
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