Dr. Riki Ott's Eye Witness Reports on the Human Tragedy of Oil Spill Clean-ups
Dr. Riki Ott, a marine biologist, toxicologist and commercial fisher from Prince William Sound warned families in gulf coast fishing villages about dangers they face. She documented the thousands of lives harmed by faulty clean-up operations after Exxon’s Valdez oil spill. In Leavenworth Washington recently Ott said, “I vowed to make a difference in the BP oil spill.”
Unemployed shrimpers and coastal workers tell Ott BP is insisting they clean up without respirators. Her book Sound Truth and Corporate Myth revealed that Valdez clean-up conditions including dispersant Corexit escalated human suffering because 70 percent of workers didn’t wear respirators. Exxon and its clean-up firm VECO concealed 6,700 worker cases until courts forced them to release data. The companies recorded complaints as respiratory problems and sent workers home on medical leave. On the third day, they weren’t hired back. Using those two procedures, the companies were not obligated to report complaints as occupationally caused.
Ott’s message, “When you work with oil, wear a respirator.”
A worker’s wife told Ott about her husband’s “flu-like symptoms” similar to reports from 11 workers who were treated and released by West Jefferson Medical Center last week. Doctors said eleven workers in one week makes it “incredibly suspicious” that the cause is working on clean-up. The week before seven workers from boats south of New Orleans were hospitalized.
Nevertheless, BP CEO Tony Hayward questioned whether the cause of hospitalized cases “was food poisoning or some other reason.” BP and Coast Guard officials said problems could be caused by “dehydration, heat, food poisoning and other related factors.”
Photographs reveal workers who should be wearing respirators. Why not outfit a worker with a videocam to record working conditions as workers cough up toxicity from their lungs?
Ott recognizes human tragedy. “This spill is a family wrecker.”
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The crude oil is toxic, and anyone who cleans the oily Gulf beaches needs to know the danger. Do not become BP's Collateral Damaged.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/exxon-valdez-oil-risks-spur-warning-for-gulf-cleanup-crews-93258964.html
The workers who are cleaning oil in the Gulf need to be aware of the chemicals that will be used. I am one of the 10,000+ cleanup workers from the Exxon Valdez oil spill, suffering from health issues from that toxic cleanup. I was a female general foreman during the beach cleanup in 1989, which turned into 20 years of extensive health deterioration for me. Dr. Riki Ott visited me in 2007 to explain about the toxic spraying on the beaches, and informed me that Exxon's medical records that surfaced in litigation by sick workers in 1994, had been sealed from the public, making it impossible to hold Exxon responsible for their actions. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5632208859935499100
Beach crews breathed in crude oil that splashed off the rocks and into the air -- the toxic exposure turned into chronic breathing conditions, central nervous system problems, neurological impairment, chronic respiratory disease, leukemia, lymphoma, brain tumors, liver damage, and blood disease. http://www.silenceinthesound.com/stories.shtml
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