information from a travel site called communitrip
[All of the following information is being filtered through the Internet to keep people from coming to Louisiana. It’s all a load of propaganda designed to make people think everything is bad so they will eventually leave the area. Their ploy won’t work. These gases come out of the Gulf naturally and spills have happened before. The puppet and his IMF friends want our country. It’s that simple. They want the Mississippi River for easy travel and take over. The Brits tried that, too. The only problem—they have to come through us Cajuns first, and we aren’t going anywhere. We stay here for Hurricanes that register 5 on the scale. Muslims, you haven’t gone through anything until you’ve come through us. You have no idea.]
Summer Destination to Avoid—Gulf of Mexico
"The black rounded square represents the Oil Geyser. The 3 blue rounded squares represent the Grand Isle EPA Air Quality Monitoring stations." Communitrip says, "There are tons of toxic gas leaking from the oil gusher, called Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds (knows as VOCs and SVOCs respectively), which are:
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) refers to organic chemical compounds which have significant vapor pressures and which can affect the environment and human health. VOCs are numerous, varied, and ubiquitous. Although VOCs include both man-made and naturally occurring chemical compounds, it is the anthropogenic VOCs that are regulated, especially for indoors where concentrations can be highest. VOCs are typically not acutely toxic but have chronic effects. Because the concentrations are usually low and the symptoms slow to develop, analysis of VOCs and their effects is a demanding area.
According to the EPA website, the VOCs and SVOCs that they are monitoring for include the following.
- The second way EPA is checking VOCs is through sampling of benzene, ethylbenzene, toluene, and xylene. These are the VOCs in crude oil that have the greatest potential to cause or contribute to long-term health risks when inhaled. Long-term exposure to benzene and ethylbenzene has the potential to cause cancer. Toluene and xylene can affect the nervous system. Monitoring at this time does not indicate that there is a significant concern for long-term health effects.
EPA is monitoring for the following SVOCs: benzo(a)pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k) fluoranthene, chrysene, dibenz(a,h)anthracene, inideno(1,2,3-cd) pyrene, naphthalene. These SVOCs have the potential to cause cancer. Monitoring the shoreline at this time does not indicate that there is a significant concern for long-term health effects.
Now that you have an idea of what is on record for being monitored by the EPA, and a slight grasp of their dangers (which are understated above), the next thing to note are the defined safe limits for humans of inhaling these chemicals.
[You can click on the above SVOCs to find out what they are and what they cause.]
The Semi-Volatile SVOCs, which are noted to be highly insoluble (do not dissolve in water) are listed on the EPA website with the following noted effects:
- Skin exposures to mixtures of carcinogenic PAHs cause skin disorders in humans and animals, and adverse skin effects have been noted in humans and animals following application of solutions containing benzo[a]pyrene.
- An epidemiological study of workers exposed by inhalation to benzo[a]pyrene and other particulate matter reported some respiratory effects. The role of benzo[a]pyrene in this association, however, is unclear.
- Animal studies have reported effects on the blood and liver from oral exposure to benzo[a]pyrene and a slight hypersensitivity response from dermal exposure to benzo[a]pyrene.
Wow. The chemicals now in the gulf air have terrible consequences if inhaled. I am only going over the data from the EPA monitoring areas near New Orleans, namely—Chalmette, Grand Isle, and Venice. These areas have multiple stations that are numbered. The data given is in the form of PPM, or parts per million. To convert to PPB, or parts per billion, simply move the decimal over 3 places to the right. For example, if a measurement reading it 0.100 PPM, it is 100 PPB. The way to think about this is for every 1 Million particles, there are X particles of the VOC or SVOC.
To get to the point, there are many concerns with the amount of current (in my opinion high) levels of VOCs and SVOCs in the air right now. I hope with the knowledge of knowing the most recent data and then knowing data has also been altered will make everyone demand answers and solutions immediately, along with real numbers.” The most recent complete numbers—June 15th—are listed on Communitrip’s website.
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