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To make matters even worse, the oil industry mixes large volumes of industrial solvents as dilutants to thin tar sands oil for transportation, and as fracking fluids to extract oil from oil-bearing shale. These mixtures are hazardous by nature. Like oil and dispersants combined, they act more like hazardous substances than oil. It should not be surprising that people harmed by the BP deepwater disaster, tar sands oil spills in Michigan and Arkansas, and fracking activities that contaminate air and water are reporting similar symptoms and sicknesses characteristic of exposure to crude oil and oil-based solvents. The unanticipated lingering damages from Exxons oil, the unintended consequences of dispersant use after the BP disaster and the more recent harms and deaths from spills of unconventional oil demonstrate an urgent need for systemic revision of the National Contingency Plan. This plan is broken, and it no longer serves its function to protect people or the environment. Read more here: adn/2014/03/23/3387107/compass-25-years-after-the-exxon.html?sp=/99/328/#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:22:44 +0000

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