Please be ad­vised that we must be vig­i­lant on how cleanup is han­dled, since we have now in­vit­ed in a for­eign com­pa­ny/com­pa­nies to deal with it.Dur­ing the 2010 Deep Wa­ter Hori­zon oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­i­co, a prod­uct called Corex­it (which is a line of dis­per­sants) was used to dis­solve the oil spill.It is stat­ed in a Newsweek mag­a­zine in­ves­tiga­tive re­port, that Corex­it fur­ther aid­ed those re­spon­si­ble for the spill by dis­pers­ing the spill so well that it hid the true mag­ni­tude of the spill/dis­as­ter.

We must be vig­i­lant that Corex­it is not used in T&T's cleanup ef­forts.The fol­low­ing can be found on Wikipedia, and for those of you who don't trust that site, please see the Newsweek ar­ti­cle, where the fol­low­ing in­for­ma­tion is al­so stat­ed:

�2 In 2012, a study found that Corex­it in­creas­es the tox­i­c­i­ty of oil by 52 times;

�2 Corex­it 9580 was used dur­ing the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill dis­as­ter in Alas­ka. Corex­it EC9500A and Corex­it EC9527A were used dur­ing the 2010 Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon oil spill.

The use of Corex­it is ap­proved in the US by the US En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency (EPA).This de­ci­sion was called in­to ques­tion in 2013 fol­low­ing a re­port by the Gov­ern­ment Ac­count­abil­i­ty Project al­leg­ing "dev­as­tat­ing long-term ef­fects on hu­man health and the Gulf of Mex­i­co ecosys­tem" stem­ming from the use of Corex­it.

Corex­it has been banned for use on oil spills in the UK since 1988. UK au­thor­i­ties have an ap­proved list of prod­ucts which must pass both "sea/beach" and "rocky shore" lab­o­ra­to­ry tox­i­c­i­ty tests; Corex­it did not pass the rocky shore test.The coun­try of Swe­den has al­so banned its use.If you're in­ter­est­ed please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wi­ki/Corex­it

http://www.newsweek.com/what-bp-does­nt-want-you-know-about-2010-gulf-spill-63015

Deb­o­rah Mail­lard,

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