MD: Cancer is going to "SURGE" over next few years in area impacted by oil disaster

[Generic Other]

Run time: 02:47 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNl09D_spPM   Posted on YouTube: February 13, 2011 By YouTube Member: OilFlorida Views on YouTube: 199   Posted on DU: February 13, 2011 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 1655

 
Interview with Dr. Rodney Soto, vascular neurologist and Dr. Rikki Ott, marine biologist.

[saras]

1. More profit potential for our fabulous private medical system

Too bad about those poor folks, though. Can't play if you can't pay.

[Generic Other]

2. "Extraordinary" & "Unusual" Louisiana 'Flu' -- Even immunized people getting it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb2VCQe2ObE&feature=feedu

WOW. Doesn't take a NEUROLOGIST to ask questions, does it?

[DCKit]

3. Exposure to oil and Corexit as a homeopathic cure for exposure to oil and Corexit?

It just makes sense. I think BP is doing us all a favor.
:sarcasm:

[Delphinus]

4. Boy,

this doesn't sound good (but most of us had an inkling, didn't we?)

[midnight]

5. The "MEGA DISASTER" is coming!!! Good Lord, I hope,

at the next prayer breakfast in Washington a pray of great wisdom is asked for...... These guys are greased up in too much money to see straight....

"I hear more and more stories from people that are getting sick from the BP oil spill aftermath, most people that I have gotten emails from have worked in the Vehicles of Opportunity program to skim oil during the height of the oil spill. These fishermen that had boats where hired by BP to help the gulf recover and get the oil off the water surface. At the same time BP was spraying Corexit dispersant from planes over head.



Corexit is classified as a toxic
For what I have read about Corexit® its classified as a toxix by the EPA and the way Corexit works on the oil is it breaks down the oil and then the oil and the Corexit evaporates into the air. When it then rains the toxic comes back down and its making people sick. This website will track Corexit claims and get people more information on what symptoms to look out for it will also help people though attorney’s and filing claims against Nalco Company and BP for the illness people are getting from Corexit dispersant.

EPA mandated BP in late May to not use Corexit but to use a less toxic dispersant but BP did not follow the directive and sprayed some 1.8 million gallon of Corexit 9500 on the Gulf of Mexico. People in coastal cities that has not had direct exposure to Corexit are still reporting the following symptoms Sore throats, respiratory problems, neurological problems, lesions, sores, and ulcers. Also reported are bloody, mucus-filled diarrhea, dry heaves, and bleeding from the ears."


http://bp-claim.com/corexi-why-people-are-getting-sic/

[Marnie]

6. It doesn't take an MD to figure that one out.

[ChiciB1]

7. My Son-In-Law Work In The ER Of Our Hospital & Tells Me About The

horrible rashes that people are coming in with just from swimming in the Gulf. And we live off the west coast of Florida, further south of Tampa. People are still fishing off the piers, but I can't imagine WHY they would even eat what they catch. We have also been seeing sea shells coming on shore that before. Where it was hard to find many types before, the shells are washing in again... sans the innards!

I can walk up the street to the Gulf and I worry a LOT! I doubt I'll be "dipping in the gulf" much for some time and it breaks my heart!

[KT2000]

8. Just like 9/11

but it will not be documented - only psychological impacts i bet.

[GeorgeGist]

9. You should notice that neither Dr. Rodney Soto nor Dr. Rikki Ott ...

are Oncologists or Epidemiologists.

[Generic Other]

11. A neurologist's assessment is good enough to raise concerns

for me. Thanks.

[enki23]

10. "next few years" seriously?

jebus. just... jebus.

[Generic Other]

12. Palast on how Chevron deals with this issue in Ecuador

Email from Palast:

Chevron Runs from Judgment in Ecuador

by Greg Palast - Exclusive for Truthout
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Chevron petroleum Corporation is attempting to slither out of an $8 billion judgment rendered yesterday by a trial court in Ecuador for cancer deaths, illnesses and destruction caused by its Texaco unit.

I've been there, in Ecuador.

I met the victims. They didn't lose their shrimp boats; they lost their kids. Emergildo Criollo, Chief of the Cofan Natives of the Amazon, told me about his three-year-old. "He went swimming, then began vomiting blood." Then he died.

See Palast's report from the Amazon for BBC , War Paint and Lawyers: Rainforest Indians versus Big Oil
PART ONE — PART TWO

And then I met Chevron-Texaco's lawyers.

When I showed Texaco lawyer Rodrigo Perez the epidemiological studies tracing childhood cancers to their oil, he sneered and said , "And it's the only case of cancer in the world? How many cases of children with cancer do you have in the States, in Europe, in Quito? If there is somebody with cancer there, must prove caused by crude or by the petroleum industry. And, second, they have to prove that it is OUR crude — which is absolutely impossible."

The Texaco man stated, "Scientifically, nobody has proved that crude causes cancer."

President Barack Obama has said that the British-based BP must pay for all the damage it caused in the Gulf.

I've just returned from the Gulf and I can tell you, it's grim, it's terrible. But compared to the damage caused by Chevron-Texaco, the Gulf blow-out is a picnic.

So now, Mr. President, will you stand by your words and tell this renegade, deadly US corporation to pay for the damage they have done?

At the end of my meeting with the oil company lawyers, I showed them a document in which Chevron-Texaco directed its underlings to destroy evidence.

The oil company men said they would get back to me with an "explanation." It's been three years, and I'm still waiting.

There is another insidious game being played by Chevron. The oil company's ethically-challenged law firm, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, has attempted to block the Cofan and other victims of Chevron from having legal counsel. They have even convinced some pinhead judge to block collection of Ecuador's judgment because harming Chevron would be a blow to "global business."

It would - and it should.

******

Read the original investigative report: War Paint and Lawyers: Rainforest Indians versus Big Oil
GregPalast.com