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Thread #129466 Message #2934816
Posted By: Ed T
25-Jun-10 - 04:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: US bigots attack British Company (oil spill)
Subject: RE: BS: US bigots attack British Company (oil spill)
"If Corexit is so safe, why did Exxon Biomedical Services describe its "Acute Toxicity" in a peer-reviewed journal"?
Considering all dispersants have toxic effects, at specific concentrations, and have a range of effectiveness in specific situations, better questions could be:
1)What vulnerable assets is a priority for protection?
2)Is leaving the oil undispersed less environmentally safe than using dispersants (I believe a large group of scientific experts considered and ruled that using dispersants was the best choice).
Once a decision is made that the benefits (environmental and ecosystem, wildlife workers health, social, economic, and coastal assets and danger of it spreading farther if untreated) of using dispersants outweighs not using them: dispersants:
3)Among all the available dispersant options, which ones are more effective, and causes fewer environmental concerns,from labratory testing and expert scientific advice,.....short and long term. (Let's not forget that few dispersants, if any, were tested under these extreme circumstances. Some, while less toxic, were developed and tested to be suitable for use in warmer, near shore,and shallow waters).