Bayoubuzz But oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill, floating beneath the surface after being sprayed with dispersant , settled on a shelf 80 miles from the Tampa Bay region within a year of the spill's end, according to a scientific study published this week ... and more »
Ring of Fire The tar balls collected this month in Bay St. Louis showed high concentrations of the chemical dispersant . In April, a new report, Deadly Dispersants in the Gulf, found that BP's use of Corexit to hide the massive amounts of oil spilled from their ... and more »
Gladstone Observer GLADSTONE'S fishing industry wants to know how the use of chemical dispersant Corexit has affected the long-term health of the Douglas Shoals - but fishermen admit they did not notice an impact. AMSA authorised use of 2000 litres of Corexit in the area ... and more »
ClaimsJournal.com Because the highly toxic dispersant “Corexit” made the oil disappear, a great deal was used. Now there is a 10,000-person lawsuit taking place in Louisiana related entirely to Corexit poisoning. Will the insurance companies have to pay for this new ... and more »
New York Times (blog) Eleven workers died and roughly 200 million gallons of crude oil gushed into the gulf after a blowout at an exploratory well owned by BP caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to explode on April 20, 2010. Nearly two million gallons of Corexit, a ...
Business Insider With Israel a stone's throw from that stockpile — and the Iron Dome missiles defense system useless against chemical dispersant — securing it would be top on Obama's list, should the regime suddenly change. The New York Times noted last year that ...
Treehugger The Louisiana shoreline, striated with spilled oil and the dispersant chemicals used to dissolve it, and the river valleys and open plains overlying the Marcellus and Bakken shale formations where fracking rigs have appeared by the thousands: they're ... and more »
NewsWithViews.com Shanna Devine explained that agents of BP and the federal government falsely claimed that a chemical dispersant , Corexit, was essentially as safe as dish washing detergent when in fact it was, when mixed with oil, 52 times more toxic than oil alone.
The Nation "It's believed by the oil company that the oil dispersant can improve the overall oil-spill conditions, but there are many unknown long-term impacts of the use of the dispersant on marine life and public health," said David Krause, an expert with US ...
