Community | July 05, 2010 | 43 comments

Almost Every Worker from Exxon Valdez Oil Spill is Now Dead

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Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many scientists are warning us of, and now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Yes, you read that correctly. Almost all of them are dead.

In fact, the expert that CNN had on said that the life expectancy for those who worked to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill is only about 51 years. Considering the fact that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now many times worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster, are you sure you want to volunteer to be on a cleanup crew down there? After all, the American Dream is not to make big bucks for a few months helping BP clean up their mess and then drop dead 20 or 30 years early.

This news clip from CNN is absolutely stunning. If this is even close to true, then why would anyone want to be involved in helping to clean up this oil?....
The truth is that what we have out in the Gulf of Mexico is a "toxic soup" of oil, methane, benzene, hydrogen sulfide, other toxic gases and very poisonous chemical dispersants such as Corexit 9500.

Breathing all of this stuff is not good for your health, but the reality is that the true health toll of this oil spill is not going to be known for decades.
However, the early reports are not encouraging....

*Already, a large number of workers cleaning up the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico report that they are suffering from flu-like symptoms.

*According to another new report, exposure to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has resulted in 162 cases of illnesses reported to the Louisiana state health department.
*In addition, according to one local Pensacola news source, "400 people have sought medical care for upper or lower respiratory problems, headaches, nausea, and eye irritation after trips to Escambia County beaches."

This is going to be something that we all want to keep a very close eye on.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/warning-to-gulf-cleanup-workers-almost-every-crew...

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  • irie_ojo
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • 8.741 gallons of Ethanol-containing gasoline has evaporated from my gas tank in less than 3 days. Wait, deduct 1/2 mile back from the station then 3 1/2 miles to WalMart & back this morning, plus 2 miles to a station selling non-Ethanol gasoline. 6 miles, OK, so deduct the .741 as my old Maverick is a 15 mpg gas hog.

      6-8 gallons of gasoline evaporated straight out into the AIR, approx. $16.50 of MY MONEY because you stupid idiots wanted CORN-A-HOL that evaporates many times faster than real gasoline.

      So I have to ask if EVERY TIME that ignorant Ethanol changes hands from farm to truck, truck to fuel farm tanks, tanks to service stations, stations pumped to cars, and then evaporating out of the car's GAS TANK, then where PRAY TELL is the Savings?

      All that airborne high-octane poison ethanol vapor evaporating out into our breathing space air what the hell were you industrialists thinking? Do you also own the nation's HOSPITALS and man the major insurance companies' board of directors? Are you quadruple dipping sitting on multiple boards of directors?

      Part of the evaporation may have been my fault from having an old gas cap where the rubber seal had gotten stiff & cracked but was that enough of an issue to cost me over SIXTEEN DOLLARS OF ETHANOL JUST SITTING THE BETTER PART OF TWO DAYS?!

      This is crap people. Crap Crap Crap Crap. Multiply my loss across the board to how many trucks and cars? 50,000,000 is a nice conservative answer. 50 million vehicles evaporating away 2-3 gallons of gas PER TANK FULL. We're punching time clocks for nothing. Our hourly raises and annual Social Security increases haven't disappeared because of foreign terrorists => in America we promote from within.

    • 1 year ago
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Gravity_Man:

      150,000,000 gallons of Ethanol-containing gasoline is evaporating what? per week? per half-week is more like it. OK. That's 1.25 billion gallons of ethanol gasoline evaporating into the thin blue polluted sky each MONTH, and that's just for AMERICA.

      This is no good. This is Stupidville Incorporated. We riding around our health going down from not walking enough then we're breathing this garbage in the air. We must be the dumbest species on this planet, dumbo the human elephants 8th Wonder of the Modern Age with our great big human calculator brains.

      Maybe it's a far far better fate to clean turtles of BP oil & die a nice fast death.

    • 1 year ago
  • Elizabeth_Urbanowski
    • 0
      Elizabeth_Urbanowski  
    • Don't forget the arsenic. A scientific journal just published an article stating that there are radically abnormal levels of arsenic in the Gulf, which right there shuts down the fishing industry for I don't know how long. We can't eat fish loaded with arsenic.

    • 1 year ago
  • Armageddon_Now
  • Mark701
    • +4
      Mark701  
    • I'm a state environmental regulator, but to be honest I'm having a problem with this woman's comment. She made a powerful statement but failed to back it up with any data. If I'm correct there were probably hundreds if not thousands of people who worked cleaning up that spill. Where did she get their names? How did she determine they were all deceased? For those who are deceased, what did they die of? If 10% died of heart attacks, how did she determine that was the result of exposure to crude oil? Were any of these people killed in accidents? Were any of the illnesses inherited?

      My concern here is credibility. This woman has inferred that everyone who worked on the Exxon Valdez spill is dead or dying because of exposure to chemicals associated with that spill. Given the near impossibility of showing a direct connection between most chemicals and chronic illness and death, her inference is fundamentally unprovable at our current level of medical technology.
      This is not like Chernobyl where the connection between cancer and radiation exposure is well known.

      If BP had the mind to, It would be very easy to discredit this woman's statement on several levels. Anti-environmentalists could then easily use her as an example of how crazy all the "tree-huggers" are.

      I'm not saying this woman is absolutely wrong but there is no way at our current level of technology that she can prove her inference is fact.

    • 1 year ago
  • cbsrf
  • PressCore
    • 0
      PressCore  
    • Image
    • Mark701:

      http://Current.com

      My comment here isn't intended to contradict your points. Notwithstanding,
      there was an article I blogged and Email blogged posted here on Current.com
      within the past 2 months which elaborated on the assertion that crude oil
      per se is a chemical composition of toxic chemicals. Ie. it isn't simply the
      gasoline, diesel fuel etc derived from oil that's toxic, but the crude oil per se.
      Plastic is derived from oil, as are other industrial products, consumers use
      everyday. Yet PCBs and other toxic contaminants have been related to it.
      The article I blogged claimed that any exposure to crude oil on human skin
      will cause serious health problems to the skin, eyes, lungs, and brain due to
      the skin's absorption of it which will get into the bloodstream. If anyone drinks
      water contaminated with crude oil to any degree, or their skin absorbs it from
      a toxic rain, pray for them.

    • 1 year ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • Natasha_Arroyo
  • Kaveh_Kompani
  • navider
    • +3
      navider  
    • Corporations are more important than people........just ask the supreme court!

      Deregulate and let them dominate us more than they already do.

    • 1 year ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
    • +1
      DeliaTheArtist  
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    • Also interesting: http://current.com/science/92528852_health-of-exxon-valdez-cleanup-workers-was-n...

      Excerpt:

      "You'd think that more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists would know what, if any, long-term health dangers face the thousands of workers needed to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill.

      You'd be wrong.

      "We don't know a damn thing," said Anchorage lawyer Michael Schneider, whose firm talked with dozens of Alaska cleanup workers following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in preparation for a class-action lawsuit that never came.

      In June, McClatchy Newspapers reported that records released by the state of Louisiana showed that BP wasn't recording most worker complaints of illness after exposure to oil. While Louisiana records described at least 74 oil spill workers complaining of becoming sick, BP's own official recordkeeping noted just two such incidents."

    • 1 year ago
  • DeliaTheArtist
    • +2
      DeliaTheArtist  
    • Here's an interesting story from Anderson Cooper from 1998 about the small towns around the Exxon Valdez spill: http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/04/19-years-later-exxon-valdez-oil-still-here...

      Excerpt: "The minute we got out of the float plane we could smell the oil in the marsh in low tide. All it took was a shovel and you could find the oily residue mixed with sediment still on the beach, 19 years after the spill. People in Cordova say it’s a reminder of what happened here nearly 2 decades ago when their town was thriving. Now, they say, it just struggles to get by."

    • 1 year ago
  • unimatrix0
    • +1
      unimatrix0  
    • The conspiracy theory weirdos are all over the BP story spreading so much false information that it is hard to determine truth from fiction.

      This particular story is totally bogus.

    • 1 year ago
  • MrMxyzptlk
  • TomTucker
  • Andrew_Douglas
    • -1
      Andrew_Douglas  
    • MrMxyzptlk:

      Yeah, the uber-environmentalists tend to stretch things quite a bit. And I'm talking about the ones who are actually simply anti-corporate, not the ones who actually care about the planet.

    • 1 year ago
  • cbsrf
  • SamuraiDave
    • +2
      SamuraiDave  
    • MrMxyzptlk:

      yeah but kooky or not, if they had their way, we'd have a cleaner environment whereas if the corporate elites had their way, we'd all be back in the coal mines working 16 hour shifts for a dollar a day while choking on the fumes of a polluted sterile world

    • 1 year ago
  • MrMxyzptlk
  • Andrew_Douglas
    • 0
      Andrew_Douglas  
    • MrMxyzptlk:

      Hey! Captain Planet rocked. Leave Captain Planet outta this. And for the record, this isn't directed at you, dude, but to whoever downvoted me... I'm not exactly fond of corporatism, either, but when I say I actually care about the environment, I care about the ENVIRONMENT, not taking down The Man.

    • 1 year ago
  • MrMxyzptlk
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • MrMxyzptlk
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • MrMxyzptlk
  • Andrew_Douglas
  • controlusplease
    • +3
      controlusplease  
    • Just like Chernobyl.
      Most workers from the Chernobyl Meltdown only lived ten years after being exposed to the intense radiation.
      I wonder how the Bp oil spill will unfold.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
  • NotFooled
  • Gravity_Man
  • controlusplease
    • +1
      controlusplease  
    • NotFooled:

      I'm likening the Chernobyl disaster to this one, if you cannot see the numerous similarities (except for the difference between oil and radiation, as you pointed out) between this spill and the Chernobyl incident, i would be happy to list it for you.

      Chernobyl was one of Russia's worst ecological disasters, as the Bp oil spill is by far America's worst.
      Both covered vast areas with toxins, and made the area's close to the sites uninhabitable.
      Both cost billions of dollars to clean up.
      The government was slow to respond and find away to stop the disaster in both cases.
      The government severely underestimated the severity of the spill and meltdown.
      Political reasons and bureaucracy increased the response time, and made it harder for decisive decisions to be made and carried through.
      In both cases, workers have many health related problems now, as a result of working with highly toxic materials, shortening their lifespans and increasing genetic disorders.
      Both disasters started with an explosion, which quickly spread into a fire that destroyed both the oil rig and the nuclear plant.
      Workers at the plant and oil rig died as a result of the explosion and fire.
      Vast area's of land were evacuated as a result of both.
      The spill and meltdown saw a mass die off of animals and plant-life in the areas effected.
      Vast clouds of hazardous material were spread by both the oil spill and meltdown. In the oil spills case, this came in the oil clouds underwater, in Chernobyl's case this came in the form of nuclear fallout.
      The military got involved in both disasters, as well as privatized industries.
      International aide was offered in both cases, yet it was denied.
      The general public was kept unaware of the exact severity and effects of the spill and meltdown.
      Locals farmers were hired to help clean up the Chernobyl incident, just as local fishermen are being hired to clean up the oil spill.
      Various methods were tried and had little or no effect, government was unsure on how put an end to both disasters.
      There are various more, I'm just getting tired of posting well known facts...
      Enjoy!

    • 1 year ago
  • tommic
    • 0
      tommic  
    • Cleanup workers should be wearing protective clothing and respirators, they would not die off in adecade if BP required it, but BP wants everyone to think crude oil is not toxic. SB420 no one has to die to clean this up, yours was a remark you should rethink

    • 1 year ago
  • SB420
    • 0
      SB420  
    • Somebody's gotta clean this shit up. Everything comes at a cost. This is sad news, and I can only express gratitude and sympathy for the cleanup crews down there.

    • 1 year ago
  • CalgarC
  • lordsbassman
  • CalgarC
  • kennymotown
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • Lots of blood flow through the lungs, + it's dark inside the body that favors mold & fungus growth. Lung and brain tissue, also breast tissue, are all soft tissue with high blood flow that favors cancer formation, all diseases. The mouth, nose and lungs are the disease portals into the human body.

      First Contact.

    • 1 year ago
  • leotardjesus
  • tommic
  • littlwarrior
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