While the U.S. government is waiting for BP to hand over information to them, perhaps it's time for us to do a little investigation on our own.
What do we know about Corexit the toxic dispersant being used by BP?
And why isn't the entire industrial/oil/political complex behind bars already?
After considerable research, this is what I have found.
Very dang little of substance.
Even the EPA's own reports on the Corexit lists some ingredients as "confidential".
- Flash Point: 163ºF
- Pour Point: < - 40ºF
- Viscosity: 160 cst at 32ºF
- Specific Gravity: 0.98 - 1.02
- pH: 6.1
- Surface Active Agents: CONFIDENTIAL
- Solvents: Water, Propylene Glycol, 2-Butoxyethanol
- Additives: CONFIDENTIAL
- Solubility: Complete
http://www.epa.gov/...
Nobody appears to know what's actually happening out there in the Gulf or how to fix it.
I met someone with close ties to the oil industry, a teacher in Alaska, who used to work for a Saudi Arabian oil company. He said, it will be six months (October) before the slant pipe BP/Transocean has begun will reach the current shaft to deflect (and collect) the oil.
All else is smoke and mirrors.
He also said, the oil spilled in the Gulf Wars caused "minimal" impacts, because it happened in warmer waters.
I pointed out to him those were, however, more shallow offshore Kuwaiti wells that Iraq bombed and this is a very deep, high pressure well.
Why aren't we looking more at what happened in those past warm water oil spills?
Or is that all classified info as well?
Is it nobody knows or somebody knows and isn't telling? About what went on when Iraq bombed the Kuwaiti fields and leaks spilled into that gulf for months on end? About what is happening now in the Gulf of Mexico?
And I ask again: Why isn't the entire industrial/oil/political complex behind bars already?