Tuesday, May 11, 2010

US oil spill: fishermen raise alarm over chemical dispersants

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/7705333/US-oil-spill-fishermen-raise-alarm-over-chemical-dispersants.html

How much does it scare you that a trade secret is being dumped into the Gulf and we're not allowed to know just exactly what that trade secret is made of or how much damage it in itself will do to the oceanic enviroment?
The killer part is that the leaks still leak on, but don't worry they still have anothe 500,000 gallons of the trade secret to dump on it while it does.


However, LuAnn White, a toxicologist at Tulane University, noted that what is being used now "is a new generation of dispersants, but we don't know what is in them because it's a trade secret.'"

Approximately 325,000 gallons of dispersant have been deployed so far in BP's effort to break up the spreading oil slick before it hits the fragile Gulf coast, and over 500,000 gallons more are available.