PS2 Supervisor Recounts Conversation Between BP officials at Green Acres Command Center, Jerry Cope (jerrycope1), October 5, 2010:
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Five year old on public beach with toy bucket and shovel dug down 3-4 inches having fun...
Started having fun playing in this wet oil, of course his mother freaks out. I freak out. We start rubbing him with absorbent paid... Why the hell didn't they tell people that...
Why were workers in protective gear and they didn't close the beaches?
At this point in an adults life, he or she must be discerning enough to put 2 and 2 together......
Benzene evaporates pretty quickly, but it is a killer…Several other Hydrocarbon “enes” (Xylenes, Ethylbenzene, Toulene, Styrene) as well as Hexane, Methylpentanes, and Isooctane will work you over, too!
They are very toxic per EPA Hazardous Chemicals data. They come from petroleum, so they are definitely fumigating the Gulf region…FACT. Benzene is ranked as the #5 MOST TOXIC chemical known to man!! Can you believe that?…And the other foregoing “ene” compounds that comprise “Polycylic Aromatic HYDROCARBONS” rank #9 (!) out of the 275 chemicals on the Hazardous Chemicals Priority list from the EPA & ATSDR (agency for toxic substances and disease registry) http://wvlc.uwaterloo.ca/biology447/modules/module5/epahazardouschemicals.htm (No, Pres. Obama and BP are not going to explain this to you!!!)
the most current 2007 CERCLA Hazardous Chemicals Priority List places Benzene as #6 out of 275 Hazardous Chemicals. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/07list.html
Does that tell you anything??? Odd that the Feds are so casual??