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Real Coastal Warriors shared an album: USCG won't make BP clean up oil from Fort Livingston.
Fort
Livingston, a pre-Civil War era structure at the eroded western end of
Grand Terre Island, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Frustrations with the dwindling response of BP and the U.S. Coast Guard
to environmental and safety complaints about the removal of oil and
cleanup equipment used during BP's Gulf
oil spill in April 2010 bubbled to the surface again at Wednesday’s
monthly meeting of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Attorney Drue Banta Winters of the governor’s office, who is
bird-dogging BP environmental issues, said the Coast Guard told BP that
it no longer will be required to remove oil from Fort Livingston, a
pre-Civil War era structure at the eroded western end of Grand Terre
Island. Oil from the BP spill washed into the fort, which is listed on
the National Register of Historic Places. Not our problem, Coast Guard
says “After a comprehensive review of all relevant data, the federal
on-scene coordinator determined that the removal of oil from the fort
could not commence without first conducting long-term studies of the
potential impacts of the remaining oil to the fort,” said Lt. Cmdr.
Natalie Murphy. "Any long term study is well outside of the purview of
the Gulf Coast Incident Management Team," she said. "We cannot comment
on any potential resolution between BP and the state of Louisiana, in or
out of court" Several studies of how best to remove the material have
been conducted by the Department of Interior’s National Center for
Preservation Technology and Training, based in Natchitoches, La., said
center researcher Carol Chin. Two of those studies, in mid-June 2010
during the spill and in January 2011, included tests of a variety of oil
removal products, and found that fresh oil was easier to remove than
after it was weathered by sun and air. Chin said the studies were
requested by the Louisiana Office of State Parks. “A cursory cleaning is
all the state parks office can afford to do,” she said. “We gave them
guidelines of what not to do and what things to consider. “It’s not a
foregone conclusion that you should clean it,” she said, adding that
some restoration experts have suggested that the oil be allowed to
continue to weather until it disappears. “My opinion, however, is that
it’s better to clean it than not,” Chin said. But she said she has
concerns about the effects of that cleaning on internal parts of the
fort’s walls that are built with “tabby,” a mixture of shell and sand
taken from archaeological Indian shell middens in the area when
construction began in 1841. Also, the fort’s mortar is not in very good
condition, she said. Read the full article here: http://www.nola.com/
Roundup Herbicide Linked To Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria
the toxicity of glyphosate to the most prevalent beneficial species, Enterococcus, "could
be a significant predisposing factor that is associated with the
increase in Clostridia botulinum-mediated diseases by suppressing the
antagonistic effect of these bacteria on clostridia."
Clostridia are a class of anaerobic bacteria including some of the most
dangerous known to man, such as C. tetani and C. botulinum, which produce tetanus and botulin toxin, respectively.
Consider that botulin is the most acutely toxic substance known, and
that despite the fact it is FDA-approved for use "cosmetically," e.g.
Botox injections, it is being looked at as a potential bioweapon because it only takes 75 billionths of a gram (75 ng) to kill a person weighing 75 kg (165 lbs). It has been estimated that only 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs) would be enough to kill the entire human population.
The researchers noted that the glyphosate-sensitive beneficial
strains of bifodobacteria, lactobacilli, propionibacteria and
enterococci were found to inhibit the growth of C.botulinum.
Real Coastal Warriors shared an album: USCG won't make BP clean up oil from Fort Livingston.
Fort
Livingston, a pre-Civil War era structure at the eroded western end of
Grand Terre Island, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Frustrations with the dwindling response of BP and the U.S. Coast Guard
to environmental and safety complaints about the removal of oil and
cleanup equipment used during BP's Gulf
oil spill in April 2010 bubbled to the surface again at Wednesday’s
monthly meeting of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority.
Attorney Drue Banta Winters of the governor’s office, who is
bird-dogging BP environmental issues, said the Coast Guard told BP that
it no longer will be required to remove oil from Fort Livingston, a
pre-Civil War era structure at the eroded western end of Grand Terre
Island. Oil from the BP spill washed into the fort, which is listed on
the National Register of Historic Places. Not our problem, Coast Guard
says “After a comprehensive review of all relevant data, the federal
on-scene coordinator determined that the removal of oil from the fort
could not commence without first conducting long-term studies of the
potential impacts of the remaining oil to the fort,” said Lt. Cmdr.
Natalie Murphy. "Any long term study is well outside of the purview of
the Gulf Coast Incident Management Team," she said. "We cannot comment
on any potential resolution between BP and the state of Louisiana, in or
out of court" Several studies of how best to remove the material have
been conducted by the Department of Interior’s National Center for
Preservation Technology and Training, based in Natchitoches, La., said
center researcher Carol Chin. Two of those studies, in mid-June 2010
during the spill and in January 2011, included tests of a variety of oil
removal products, and found that fresh oil was easier to remove than
after it was weathered by sun and air. Chin said the studies were
requested by the Louisiana Office of State Parks. “A cursory cleaning is
all the state parks office can afford to do,” she said. “We gave them
guidelines of what not to do and what things to consider. “It’s not a
foregone conclusion that you should clean it,” she said, adding that
some restoration experts have suggested that the oil be allowed to
continue to weather until it disappears. “My opinion, however, is that
it’s better to clean it than not,” Chin said. But she said she has
concerns about the effects of that cleaning on internal parts of the
fort’s walls that are built with “tabby,” a mixture of shell and sand
taken from archaeological Indian shell middens in the area when
construction began in 1841. Also, the fort’s mortar is not in very good
condition, she said. Read the full article here: http://www.nola.com/
Roundup Herbicide Linked To Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria
the toxicity of glyphosate to the most prevalent beneficial species, Enterococcus, "could be a significant predisposing factor that is associated with the increase in Clostridia botulinum-mediated diseases by suppressing the antagonistic effect of these bacteria on clostridia." Clostridia are a class of anaerobic bacteria including some of the most dangerous known to man, such as C. tetani and C. botulinum, which produce tetanus and botulin toxin, respectively.
Consider that botulin is the most acutely toxic substance known, and that despite the fact it is FDA-approved for use "cosmetically," e.g. Botox injections, it is being looked at as a potential bioweapon because it only takes 75 billionths of a gram (75 ng) to kill a person weighing 75 kg (165 lbs). It has been estimated that only 1 kilogram (2.2 lbs) would be enough to kill the entire human population.The researchers noted that the glyphosate-sensitive beneficial strains of bifodobacteria, lactobacilli, propionibacteria and enterococci were found to inhibit the growth of C.botulinum.
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