Gulf Oil Spill Fallout?

There's an odd canker on plants in areas of southern Mississippi. And there's a very disturbing theory to go with it.



From the website PrisionPlanet.com comes this explanation:

“It seems like damage brought by the oil gusher has spread way beyond the ocean, coastal areas and beaches. Collateral damage now appears to include agricultural damage way inland Mississippi,” writes Benjamin. The disease has caused widespread damage to plants from weeds to farmed organic and conventionally grown crops.

Benjamin believes the disease is the result of BP spraying the oil dispersant Corexit 9500 in the Gulf of Mexico. Corexit 9500 is believed to be responsible for widespread reports of oil cleanup crews reporting various injuries including respiratory distress, dizziness and headaches.

“Dispersants have never been applied on this scale, leaving environmental scientists guessing about the consequences. Corexit may have caused seven cleanup workers to be admitted to the hospital with shortness of breath and nausea,” reports Popular Science.

“Many have focused their concerns about Corexit… on what it’s doing under the water. But as we know, the oceans are part of a larger precipitation cycle, and scientists are worried that soon the consequences of using dispersants could be falling from the sky,” writes Beth Buczynski for Care2, an environmental website.

The EPA asked BP to stop using Corexit, which is banned in 18 countries due to its toxicity, but the oil transnational has refused.

There is no direct evidence that the crop damage in Mississippi is the result of Corexit 9500 falling from the sky. However, as Benjamin notes, there “is very strong suspicion that ocean winds have blown Corexit aerosol plumes or droplets and that dispersants have caused the unexplained widespread damage.”

The stench from the oil has reached the western coast of Florida, most notably the Tampa Bay area. There is no end in sight to the escaping oil from the destroyed well and now we are told that "fishers" are opening up on the gulf's floor releasing plumes of oil and gases unrelated to the drill site. My heart breaks because I know that there's nothing we can do about this catastrophe and 20 billion dollars from BP won't even begin to compensate the looming losses that are being unleashed.

Mother earth has just suffered an aneurysm. Let hope that it's not beyond rehabilitation.