US Coast Guard confirms: Two Gulf oil spill clean up workers have died
The US Coast Guard is reporting that two of the workers involved in cleaning up the Gulf oil spill have died.
As of June 11th, 71 oil spill clean up workers have been hospitalized in Louisiana, due to exposure to vapors from the toxic disbursants.
Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the Daily Beast, “"We're very concerned about the impact of the disaster on the public health of people in the gulf region."
CBS News reports, “Seven weeks into the oil spill crisis, there is still confusion and uncertainty about how to protect the people cleaning up the mess. Commercial fisherman George Jackson was overcome by fumes while inspecting boom; BP gave him no protective gear.
Earlier in the crisis, BP CEO Tony Hayward attributed the sickness of clean up workers to
“food poisoning,” despite suggestions by medical experts that the symptoms of food poisoning are very different from findings from exposure to toxic chemicals.
No details have been released about the deaths of the two clean up workers.
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Despicable. More blood attributable to BP. The government needs to ban BP from US operations.
Everyones worried about what's happening up top how about the damage it is doing to the earth??? Down below in the erath where the OIL is coming from!!! If oils coming out what is it that's going to go in later to replace what came out if anything and if left empty won't the earths crust break apart? Stuff like that??? Think about it!!! Larry O
Everyones worried about what's happening up top how about the damage it is doing to the earth??? Down below in the erath where the OIL is coming from!!! If oils coming out what is it that's going to go in later to replace what came out if anything and if left empty won't the earths crust break apart? Stuff like that??? Think about it!!! Larry O
just ban all oil companies. stop them from drilling more and more and more. let them start to invest on renewable energy. let them start now! they can afford it. in this way they will obtain good conscience and they will more profit and a lot sympathy and support from the people. renewable energy is very sustainable with only a little environmental impact to mother nature. please spread this idea of mine to the politicians especially to the oil giant companies.
Larry look up petroliumworld.com
there have been several articles written about how the sea floor is shifting and the possibilities of volcano type eruption from that oil gushing area... it won't stay empty for long...we could have major issues with high tides, etc.
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FILE - In this Wednesday, May 5, 2010 file photo, a shrimp boat is used to collect oil from last month's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) Gulf Shores, Ala. – Two people connected to the oil spill cleanup effort have been reported dead.
Gulf Shores Police say a 55-year-old man was discovered Wednesday inside the wheelhouse of his boat with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The man was a “vessel of opportunity” operator, according to Coast Guard Incident Commander Thad Allen.
The man’s body was taken to Mobile, Ala. for an autopsy.
In an unrelated accident, Allen says an oil spill cleanup worker was killed at a swimming pool. Allen did not elaborate on the cause of death.
The identities of both victims have not
We must stand strong and gather in numbers to prevent more poison from being pored into our oceans... we must create renewable fuel access now, no more blood for oil, no more blood to fill greedy pockets of oil execs. No more oil. Blessings to our Earth to heal and for the angels of the sea to find a way to survive this disaster.
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