Editorial: Reject #BP oil spill myths - PNJ environmental reporter Kim Blair revealed how toxic traces of dispersant chemicals that were controversially used in 2010 are present in tar balls on our beaches today. Again, the science reveals the sickening pattern of misleading and dishonest public relations. As Blair points out, the finding in a new study contradicts the message that the dispersant quickly evaporated from the environment, which BP and EPA officials were telling a public who grew outraged over... use of the chemicals in the Gulf of Mexico... ts shameful that the company responsible for the disaster was pushing a reassuring message about dispersants when they had no way of knowing the facts. That our government would echo such unfounded claims is unthinkable. The truth is, neither entity could have had any idea what more than 1.8 million gallons of chemical dispersant would do to the Gulf ecosystem. So much current research is unprecedented, having only been born out of the need to understand what damage was done in the spill. Officials were dead wrong to mislead the public.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:04:05 +0000
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