Dispersants

[Europhyllia]

These dispersants have worried me from the start.
It sort of felt like a quick fix that would hide the big problem but not really solve it. More of an out of sight out of mind thing. We don't see it below the surface but it still will kill the life it comes in contact with...

Maybe I just feel that way because I have already fallen prey over the years to the quick fix/ dump some chemicals in the tank myself and it's just never been a good idea.

I wish they would stop dumping more chemicals in the ocean. We hardly can clean up the oil in it's original state, no telling how one would extract it in the dissolved state or retrieve the dispersant chemicals?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100531/...rsant_concerns

[captexas]

In trying to stop one disaster they have created another one. One that we won't know the true scope of destruction probably for decades. As big of a deal as this is, they have kept some details very quiet. In a story I saw about the chemicals over the weekend, there are already people getting sick from being in contact with the chemicals being sprayed. They said that normally the safety training class on use of the stuff is like 6 hours and the fisherman that are being hired by BP to help do the clean up work are only getting a 1/2 hour class. And even though BP swears the chemicals are more mild than regular dish soap, they tell the workers that 1 in 7 could develop cancer from them! So what do they think will happen to all the wildlife in the gulf and in the wetlands?