Most Exxon Valdez oil spill workers are Dead (CNN, death, Obama)

[SilverOne]

[LEFT]Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many scientists are warning us of, and now it has been reported on CNN that the vast majority of those who worked to clean up the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska are now dead. Yes, you read that correctly. Almost all of them are dead.
In fact, the expert that CNN had on said that the life expectancy for those who worked to clean up the Exxon Valdez oil spill is only about 51 years.


Read more: Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead


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[HappyTexan]

Those poor folks doing cleanup down there. They've been told it's all ok.
Like leading sheep to the slaughter
And the CDC, EPA and all the agencies as well as BP have access to this data.
This is good solid data.

Add to that..saying the fish is ok to eat and that it's ok to swim is just criminal IMHO.

[SouthBound47]

Maybe that's why Obama is golfing instead of taking tours and giving speeches (his only strength). He knows he his giving blue collar red state workers the kiss of death and doesn't want to risk it himself.

I now know why the Messiah didn't simply part the waters and "plug the &$@? hole" with his awesomeness.

[LogicIsYourFriend]

And to think BP task leaders were threatening workers with their jobs if they wore protective gear.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Yep, we should just let nature take its course with oil... the spill that is as natural as water.

[HistorianDude]

Am I the only one here skeptical about the claim that most of the Exxon Valdez workers are dead?

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by HistorianDude

Am I the only one here skeptical about the claim that most of the Exxon Valdez workers are dead?

A 2001 article on health of cleanup workers (LA Times)
LA Times November 5 - Shares More about Workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Valdez, Alaska

From the above, Exxon lobbied hard not to have the Valdez spill designated as hazardous waste cleanup. Seems thousands sought medical help afterwards.

Looking for something more current..but it seems Exxon went to great lengths to avoid any health/medical precautions and the government backed them up

More recent article..nothing mentioning how many are dead but a startling discovery that no health records were kept nor were the after effects documented and studied. Exxon got their worker records sealed. Shocking the lengths they went to to cover up health issues but not so shocking that the government allowed them to do it. And now BP and our administration are doing the same thing.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/2...z-cleanup.html

[Cunucu Beach]

Originally Posted by HistorianDude

Am I the only one here skeptical about the claim that most of the Exxon Valdez workers are dead?

It was on CNN, not "Faux". So it must be true.

[HistorianDude]

Originally Posted by HappyTexan

A 2001 article on health of cleanup workers (LA Times)
LA Times November 5 - Shares More about Workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - Valdez, Alaska

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Health of Exxon Valdez cleanup workers was never studied | McClatchy

So... don't those articles pretty much establish that the assertion that "most Exxon Valdez workers are dead" is just made up? According to both these articles, there's no way of knowing that.

[akbound08]

Valdez is full of people who cleaned up the spill. I know a bunch of people who made a fortune cleaning it and there fine. Don't believe things about Alaska from people who don't live here or lived here in the past. I'm sure a lot of people who cleaned it are dead, but there's no way to know it's from cleaning if there is no medical records for them. If we don't clean the oil the world dies. So quit trying to convince people to not clean it.