|
Grouped : http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol Worker Issues of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Cleanup - Chemicals are Harmful to Health |
INTRO.... Workers, what are your answers to these questions *
If there is a possibility that you could have not been affected by the chemicals, please share.
We would be pleased to know that some workers were NOT health damaged
All workers need to give this some thought *
Exxon Claims Success *
Time Line:
EPA says OK to experiment * 7-26-89
EXXON creates Inipol EAP 22 7-28-89 & commences to field test & lab test simultaneously *
an Exxon Product with MSDS by Exxon *
Don Moeller's log - Initial Results of using Inipol EAP 22 - August, 1989 *
|
You were a Worker? |
| Check
these pages:
Overview: Valdez EXXON / VECO Oil Spill Clean up- Hundreds of Bioremediation Workers Affected * Are you TIRED ALL THE TIME? Symptoms of Chemical Overexposure: One solvent used in Inipol EAP 22 was 2-butoxyethanol * What is the Test for Hemolytic Anemia? or aplastic anemia from benzene *.... & General Blood Facts * What is Considered Normal for Red Blood Cells? *
Could you Possibly be Severely Depressed? Inipol EAP 22 causes Central Nervous System Damage, your personality could change from what was normal for you, ....to "fly off the handle" irritable... all-the-time-Depressed? ... even suicidal ? Difficulty concentrating? * Most of these men were young, just leaving home to go to college & be on their own. Their spouses, most likely, thought their families were abusive in raising them; don't realize they are health damaged.... they don't realize it, their families they came from nor that they now have... do not either Skin - 2-butoxyethanol overexposure defats the skin, & you could have massive nose bleeds, cracked skin. Tell Your Doctor * What Chemicals You were Exposed to * & bring the fact sheet on 2-butoxyethanol * (page bottom) Check you kidney and liver function regularly throughout your life. Liver info * per company MSDS: "Liver and kidney effects including increased spleen and liver weight." Learn a Life style of Avoiding Chemicals * What Those Who Were There Have to Share * You Can Make a Difference, EVOS cleanup Worker! You are the Only Evidence Left - What INIPOL EAP 22 did to Workers *
What does OSHA - Dept of Labor have to tell workers about Inipol EAP 22? * 1-23-01 Why is there only one official response to concerns workers must have voiced regarding exposures to Inipol EAP 22? Why does this reply not share that cancer could be a health concern?
EPA? Appears that EPA only was concerned about the environment. They 'dropped the ball' where people were concerned, but of course that wasn't their focus. Compare the ingredients of Inipol EAP 22 to the Product 10 Technical Bulletin * of EPA. Realize that Inipol EAP 22 only purported to be a 'fertilizer' it was actually a surfactant, * and Exxon was cleaning the beaches with solvents... they weren't bioremediating anything. * The results that were found could have been a reaction of microbes with the refined oil they were adding with the chemicals. |
Does EPA Approval Mean Anything? Sometimes they approve things before results can be fully understood. There was some Corexit * brought to the oil spill... only experimental, not used widespread then, but now stockpiled in Valdez with plans for future experiments. Says one chemical analyst, "If you just look up ethylene oxide, you can see what it does!" So why did they even try to use it?
Please Pray for these Workers *
|
Appropriate Protective Gear? |
| * | Workers didn't have chemical retardant suits, they had rain suits; MSDS required No inhalation, No skin contact. The Density * of Inipol EAP 22 with 2-butoxyethanol was such that it was absorbed, as I understand it, directly into the cells; the formula of Inipol EAP 22 was made so strong (10-12 times the strength of poison in pesticides) that it seemed even minor exposure caused health problems, per what longshoremen and other non-bioremediation workers are reporting. |
Also, from reading studies, it is believed that 2-butoxyethanol of Inipol EAP 22 alters the cells of humans.
To quote Exxon's scientist: "2-butoxyethanol, a common solvent used in Inipol as a viscosity reducer and stabilizer. 'While it is biodegradable, it is potentially harmful to mammals if a sufficient amount is absorbed through the skin.' "
Environment Reporter, Vol. 23, No. 51, p3169 (April 16, 1993).
Says one bioremediation worker:
"One did not spray Inipol EAP 22 for any period of time without becoming saturated in it.
As you probably are aware, the protection gear was inadequate and the sprayers leaked.
I personally have been on disability since mid 1990's
due to a variety of mostly not understood illnesses." 11-7-02
Has Exxon been Forthright? *
|
You Want to Learn? |
|
http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/neurotoxicity.htm Studies on Central Nervous System affected by solvent exposures: http://www.whis.nzl.org/snftaas/pt17.html & within this article: "*From WHO World Health Organization (via Toxins Awareness Group): paint solvents are carcinogenic, painters having a 40% higher chance of lung cancer and 20% higher of stomach, bladder, larynx, etc cancers, while their children are at increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors." Thelma's story *
Note: 2-butoxyethanol is a paint solvent, dry cleaning solvent, also used in dissolving plastics Symptoms of Chemical Overexposure: One solvent used in Inipol EAP 22 was 2-butoxyethanol * |
Could what Exxon did to these workers be criminal? *
|
Helps Ideas |
|
"We need to pay a lot more attention to preventive medicine- -not so much to radiating, poisoning and cutting." -Dr. Ben Carson * |
|
|
Good Consultants for your doctor to work with! If you don't have a doctor, check with them directly. * These are laboratories which can help the chemically sensitive and his/her doctor.
|
|
Robert Urich |
| ... died of a rare form of
cancer of the joints; he commented in an interview with Larry King -
that as a young man he worked in a steel mill. *
Could his Cancer have been from
chemicals he was exposed to?
What was he exposed to then? Are his children at health risk, such as Thelma was? * |
|
How About our Marine Life? |
| Decline of the Pacific Herring... could it be the Inipol EAP 22? Why I think so * |
|
Customblen?* |
| * | & now December, 2002 does Exxon what to dump Corexit in the Water...? * |
Home: www.valdezlink.com/inipol
e-mail address: Margaret Diann
'Mother Margaret' VALDEZ 1-888-853-5333
Worker Survey *
A Newspaper ad you can place in your local paper:
WANTED: People from Exxon Valdez oil-spill cleanup: The VECO men in Exxon's bioremediation experiment, Aug 1989-1990, who used surfactant, Inipol EAP 22 with 2-butoxyethanol, a dry cleaning solvent. Extremely poisonous. Now used in Exxon's Corexit which they want permits for widespread use. Contact 1-888-853-5333 or www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/ad.htm
Contact * regarding Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Cleanup Workers
