Fishing for Tar Balls |
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| By: Phoenix Woman Sunday July 18, 2010 7:15 am | |
Some Alabama shrimpers are working with the US Coast Guard on a net system designed to pull up tar balls from the BP spill. Looks interesting, and probably safer than Corexit. (One can argue that it’s best not to use Corexit and other dispersants as they actually make things worse for wildlife by spreading the pollutants out in ways that make them much harder to genuinely clean, even with modified shrimp netting.)
Here’s the Coast Guard video, via The UpTake. What do you all think?
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I hope that it works.
Here is a Dkos daiy on exploding water from the Gulf. A news station colleced waer and sand samples long the Alabama coast. One waer samples explodes on being tested.
The Exploding Water of the Gulf
Great catch!
That video is really powerful, really accessible.
I have no background in biology, but those who I have read, appear to have very serious concerns about Corexit.
Anything that gets any oil out of the Gulf is good. That fact that BP is paying for it, only makes it better.
The fact that the government is unable or unwilling to demand the manufacturer of Corext to reveal its contents is an outrage. But we know the effects of generic detergents on animate sea life and it s devastating.
I read in MSM but cannot recall where that a major component is ethylene glycol which is anti-freeze and the substance that killed a number of African children when used as a solvent for medications. Another disturbing note is that they are reporting over half the sea animals found dead do not show evidence of oil contamination. It seems likely if they look they will discover it is due to Corexit.
That said, one has to hope that most of this huge injection of the chemical will be diluted to non-toxic levels.
By anything, I was attempting to reference the fishermen, NOT the Corexit. My apologies, I want zero part of anything that appears to even casually endorse the use of Corexit.
Thanks for the clarification. I did understand it in the way you intended,
I was responding with what little information I as a medical person have about it.
From what I understand, the worst of the problems aren’t with the oil and other chemicals that we can see, but the stuff that we can’t see and is swiftly settling into places where it’s very hard and time-consuming to remove. As this WKRG video notes — it’s the one cited in the DK diary to which AZMatt linked — the water can look just fine, but harbors oil and/or dispersants that can cause the water to explode when tested in the lab.
Hope the netting of tar balls helps but that’s a lot of water to cover. Are they warning people to stay away from the beaches? Seems to me they should.
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Really is a good video, and an important, cooperative, safe effort aimed at what matters.