Here’s the latest news for Sunday, Sept. 5th: Oil spill investigators get close-up look at damaged blowout preventer; Mudslides kill dozens in Guatemala; JetBlue flight attendant out of a job and there’s a new lassoing world record.
Toxic oil spill and toxic rains could destroy North America The British Petroleum oil spill is threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with “total destruction,” reports say. An ominous report by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources warned of the impending disaster resulting from the British Petroleum (BP) oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico, calling it the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history, the European Union Times reported. Russian scientists believe BP is pumping millions of gallons of Corexit 9500, a chemical dispersal agent, under the Gulf of Mexico waters to hide the full extent of the leak, now estimated to be over 2.9 million gallons a day. Experts say Corexit 9500 is a solvent four times more toxic than oil. The agent, scientists believe, has a 2.61ppm toxicity level, and when mixed with the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, its molecules will be able to “phase transition.” This transition involves the change of the liquid into a gaseous state, which can be absorbed by clouds. The gas will then be released as “toxic rain” leading to “unimaginable environmental catastrophe” destroying all life forms from the “bottom of the evolutionary chart to the top,” the report said. Toxic Oil Spill Rains Warned Could Destroy North America www.eutimes.net Oil spill threatens ‘total destruction’ www.presstv.ir
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