http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130618/what-sickens-people-oil-spills-and-how-badly-anybodys-guess
We saw many of my symptoms once you get into the article. Very informative.
The fight of small group of people in Northern Michigan against the oil and gas industry. All we want is it done safely and know the health hazards! Ah, the dreaded pink tape. Just two women who health has been so drastically changed since 2003 fighting the big boys and educating those who want to be educated and even those who don't.
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Showing posts with label gas and oil. Show all posts
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US, BETTER READ AND SHARE
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO US
Video
http://www.kens5.com/on-tv/kens-reporters/joe-conger/We-want-out-of-here-Residents-blame-ailments-on-oil-field-toxins-206688131.html
KARNES CITY -- Like beacons, the flares in Karnes County draw attention
to one of the biggest and most profitable oil and gas finds in the
world. Under the light belching from the towers, Mike Cerny takes a puff
of medicine in what is now an empty inhaler.
Cerny and his wife say the inhalers and medicines the family takes now eclipse the royalties their property earns from fracking.
“When you see your son with up to three nosebleeds a day, something’s wrong with this picture,” Myra Cerny said.
At first, she thought it was “time” that was taking its toll on their bodies.
“But it was coming on too fast, the symptoms," Cerny said. "And others the same age -- I have a twin sister -- aren’t sharing the same problems.”
But with every bit of gas and oil being extracted, the family noticed changes in their health. The flares are supposed to burn off unwanted gases, but the family noticed clouds of black smoke erupting with the flames.
“We are totally surrounded," Cerny said. "And no matter which way the wind blows, we’re getting downdraft from one or the other."
Worried, the Cernys contacted the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
In August and September, investigators with the TCEQ visited two units near their home. The leaking hydrocarbons are invisible to the naked eye, but are picked up as black smoke with the TCEQ’s infrared cameras.
The Cernys said their fears were realized when the TCEQ found the operator, Marathon Oil, was out of compliance.
“When they’re burning black and not operating right, like we’ve seen here, you have up to 250- pollutants raining down on your head," Cerny said.
According to TCEQ documents, methane, propane, butane, and hydrogen sulfides were in the noxious mix. The benzene emissions alone were reportedly four times over the legal limit.
The Cernys said it was the exposure to Benzene -— a known cancer-causing compound -— that matched their symptoms.
“That’s when we put things together. Well, that’s everything going on with our health. And we knew it was surrounding us,” Cerny said.
“Once you inhale it, your liver picks it up. And it is really what happens in the body that makes it carcinogenic,” said Dr. Andrew Brenner, a neurooncologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He said chronic, long-term benzene exposure is dangerous and can lead to blood cancers.
“People get leukemias, or you can have damage to your stem cells and their bone marrow. That results in an inability to make their own blood cells,” he said.
The Cernys said they’re breathing that air around their home 24 hours a day. Now the family worries about their growing boy, Cameron.
“It’s like a CSI episode: You picture the chemical going in their fragile lungs and what it is doing to their body. And you wonder, 'How much longer do they have?'”
The TCEQ made two recommendations to Marathon Oil: the company installs an alarm or monitor to make sure the flare is working properly, and that Marathon reports emissions problems within 24 hours.
The oil company received no fines from the state agency.
“We want out of here,” Mike Cerny said.
The Cernys said they are not alone in their suffering.
However, other nearby residents were reluctant to come forward, telling KENS 5 they have family working the oil and gas fields. Complaining, they said, could cost them their jobs.
The Cernys believe the industry may have already cost them their health.
“Death,” said Mike and Myra Cerny simultaneously.
“That’s all I can think. Death,” the worried mother said. “Seeing our son die maybe before us. That’s all you can think.”
Cerny and his wife say the inhalers and medicines the family takes now eclipse the royalties their property earns from fracking.
“When you see your son with up to three nosebleeds a day, something’s wrong with this picture,” Myra Cerny said.
At first, she thought it was “time” that was taking its toll on their bodies.
“But it was coming on too fast, the symptoms," Cerny said. "And others the same age -- I have a twin sister -- aren’t sharing the same problems.”
But with every bit of gas and oil being extracted, the family noticed changes in their health. The flares are supposed to burn off unwanted gases, but the family noticed clouds of black smoke erupting with the flames.
“We are totally surrounded," Cerny said. "And no matter which way the wind blows, we’re getting downdraft from one or the other."
Worried, the Cernys contacted the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
In August and September, investigators with the TCEQ visited two units near their home. The leaking hydrocarbons are invisible to the naked eye, but are picked up as black smoke with the TCEQ’s infrared cameras.
The Cernys said their fears were realized when the TCEQ found the operator, Marathon Oil, was out of compliance.
“When they’re burning black and not operating right, like we’ve seen here, you have up to 250- pollutants raining down on your head," Cerny said.
According to TCEQ documents, methane, propane, butane, and hydrogen sulfides were in the noxious mix. The benzene emissions alone were reportedly four times over the legal limit.
The Cernys said it was the exposure to Benzene -— a known cancer-causing compound -— that matched their symptoms.
“That’s when we put things together. Well, that’s everything going on with our health. And we knew it was surrounding us,” Cerny said.
“Once you inhale it, your liver picks it up. And it is really what happens in the body that makes it carcinogenic,” said Dr. Andrew Brenner, a neurooncologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
He said chronic, long-term benzene exposure is dangerous and can lead to blood cancers.
“People get leukemias, or you can have damage to your stem cells and their bone marrow. That results in an inability to make their own blood cells,” he said.
The Cernys said they’re breathing that air around their home 24 hours a day. Now the family worries about their growing boy, Cameron.
“It’s like a CSI episode: You picture the chemical going in their fragile lungs and what it is doing to their body. And you wonder, 'How much longer do they have?'”
The TCEQ made two recommendations to Marathon Oil: the company installs an alarm or monitor to make sure the flare is working properly, and that Marathon reports emissions problems within 24 hours.
The oil company received no fines from the state agency.
“We want out of here,” Mike Cerny said.
The Cernys said they are not alone in their suffering.
However, other nearby residents were reluctant to come forward, telling KENS 5 they have family working the oil and gas fields. Complaining, they said, could cost them their jobs.
The Cernys believe the industry may have already cost them their health.
“Death,” said Mike and Myra Cerny simultaneously.
“That’s all I can think. Death,” the worried mother said. “Seeing our son die maybe before us. That’s all you can think.”
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
PIPE LINE-THIS IS HERE IN OUR PART OF THE COUNTRY
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20121018/enbridge
THIS IS IN OUR BACKYARD NOW. OPEN YOUR EYES NOW. Please, we need your help!
jaime
Northern Michigan
THIS IS IN OUR BACKYARD NOW. OPEN YOUR EYES NOW. Please, we need your help!
jaime
Northern Michigan
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
MESS IN THE NORTH SEA
http://news.yahoo.com/flare-still-burning-north-sea-gas-leak-111809772.html
Here we go again. Will they every learn. It IS H2S gas coming out and burning off
sulfur dioxoide. What a flustercluck. Man, my sister lives in UK, 3 hours west of
London, thus nearer to this mess than I prefer.
UK Watch out!
JAIME
Northern Michigan
Here we go again. Will they every learn. It IS H2S gas coming out and burning off
sulfur dioxoide. What a flustercluck. Man, my sister lives in UK, 3 hours west of
London, thus nearer to this mess than I prefer.
UK Watch out!
JAIME
Northern Michigan
Sunday, March 18, 2012
What we have to put up with also........
http://oilandgasinnorthernmichigan.blogspot.com/2012/03/what-we-have-to-put-up-with-also.html
I had to go to the Emergency Room in my town of Cheboygan. It is into bankruptcy and had a scare of a closure but I guess someone else is going to buy them. They had already shut down OB/Peds, Intensive Care and many other things they offered. They plan (I hear) to keep the ER open but have a few beds for observation for 23 hours and then ship patient to Petoskey, larger town. I feel bad for all of those working there. We have family working there and we are so worried for them. Well, this was my experience on March 17, my chronic myofascial pain, fibromyalgia other bone and muscle problems. I DON'T go to ANY ER unless I am at the end of my rope. My chiropractor friend and even my doctor insisted I go to the hospital. My friend said I was too exhausted from fighting severe pain for almost 2 weeks. She assured me I would be treated right, my doctor's nurse assured me he understood my hesitation but thought my body needed a break. I waited until the next day.
THAT BE TOLD HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED. I was told it was in my head, couldn't believe an industry would do what it had done to my small town of Lewiston. The doctor sat down, crossed his legs and looked like he was staying a while. He then tried to psychoanalyze me. Wrong thing to do, I could far psychoanalyze him through my life experiences.
Thank God Joe was right there with me and had had enough of the "interrogation" I was in no shape to take. Joe's ex wife had been exposed to floor wax stripper when she worked at the Hospital years ago and that doctor remembered it. Once he realized, I think, that he could no longer bully me-in the nice, professional way they try to-my care was finally addressed.
I know what I need when I get to that point I should not have had to get to. Severe pain is stressful on the body and unnecessary these days but it still happens.
They are good people at that hospital. I wish the doctor's would educate themselves and make the job easier for the nurses, PA's or whoever works with them. Your ignorance only shows by not listening to your patient. Listen to me, I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE BUT AS LONG AS I MADE THE DECISION AFTER HOURS OR DAYS OF SUFFERING PLEASE HELP ME. I'm sure it was written clearly on my face. I can't hide my "bad days" very well. My friends and family know that.
IN THE END, NOT ALL OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC, DEBILITATING, OUT OF CONTROL PAIN EXACERBATION IS A DRUG ADDICT. Look at their eyes, eyes
will give all away usually.
We don't want to lose our hospital so let's show them how good you are and save yourselves and the community. You have given excellent care most of the time, don't let the ER doctor make all of you look bad, help your patient communicate with the doctor. The nurse has to be their patients advocate. Someone has to........
After some criticism, the ER personnel have kind hearts, just help us when we can't help ourselves at the time.
I had to go to the Emergency Room in my town of Cheboygan. It is into bankruptcy and had a scare of a closure but I guess someone else is going to buy them. They had already shut down OB/Peds, Intensive Care and many other things they offered. They plan (I hear) to keep the ER open but have a few beds for observation for 23 hours and then ship patient to Petoskey, larger town. I feel bad for all of those working there. We have family working there and we are so worried for them. Well, this was my experience on March 17, my chronic myofascial pain, fibromyalgia other bone and muscle problems. I DON'T go to ANY ER unless I am at the end of my rope. My chiropractor friend and even my doctor insisted I go to the hospital. My friend said I was too exhausted from fighting severe pain for almost 2 weeks. She assured me I would be treated right, my doctor's nurse assured me he understood my hesitation but thought my body needed a break. I waited until the next day.
THAT BE TOLD HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED. I was told it was in my head, couldn't believe an industry would do what it had done to my small town of Lewiston. The doctor sat down, crossed his legs and looked like he was staying a while. He then tried to psychoanalyze me. Wrong thing to do, I could far psychoanalyze him through my life experiences.
Thank God Joe was right there with me and had had enough of the "interrogation" I was in no shape to take. Joe's ex wife had been exposed to floor wax stripper when she worked at the Hospital years ago and that doctor remembered it. Once he realized, I think, that he could no longer bully me-in the nice, professional way they try to-my care was finally addressed.
I know what I need when I get to that point I should not have had to get to. Severe pain is stressful on the body and unnecessary these days but it still happens.
They are good people at that hospital. I wish the doctor's would educate themselves and make the job easier for the nurses, PA's or whoever works with them. Your ignorance only shows by not listening to your patient. Listen to me, I DON'T WANT TO BE HERE BUT AS LONG AS I MADE THE DECISION AFTER HOURS OR DAYS OF SUFFERING PLEASE HELP ME. I'm sure it was written clearly on my face. I can't hide my "bad days" very well. My friends and family know that.
IN THE END, NOT ALL OF PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC, DEBILITATING, OUT OF CONTROL PAIN EXACERBATION IS A DRUG ADDICT. Look at their eyes, eyes
will give all away usually.
We don't want to lose our hospital so let's show them how good you are and save yourselves and the community. You have given excellent care most of the time, don't let the ER doctor make all of you look bad, help your patient communicate with the doctor. The nurse has to be their patients advocate. Someone has to........
After some criticism, the ER personnel have kind hearts, just help us when we can't help ourselves at the time.
Friday, February 10, 2012
H2S and what it does to the pipeline
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/oilandgas/general_safety/h2s_monitoring.html
if you look partway down the page you will see a pipeline that has had H2S running through it. It doesn't take that long as it is so caustic. Trying to find Michigan health info. but came across this.
jaime
northern michigan
Metal Fatigue
Metal fatigue, including hydrogen embrittlement or sulfide stress cracking, can result in a release of hydrogen sulfide gas.
Potential Hazard:
Possible Solutions:
if you look partway down the page you will see a pipeline that has had H2S running through it. It doesn't take that long as it is so caustic. Trying to find Michigan health info. but came across this.
jaime
northern michigan
Metal Fatigue
 Fig. 4. H2S metal fatigue |
Metal fatigue, including hydrogen embrittlement or sulfide stress cracking, can result in a release of hydrogen sulfide gas.
Potential Hazard:
- Being exposed to Hydrogen Sulfide.
- Getting Injured due to equipment failure.
Possible Solutions:
- Select materials in accordance with the MR0175/ISO15156 criteria for H2S service.
- MR 0175C, Metals for Sulfide Stress Cracking and Stress Corrosion Cracking Resistance in Sour Oilfield Environments. National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), (2003, December) [Also ISO 15156, Petroleum and natural gas industries—Materials for use in H2S containing environments in oil and gas production, International Standards Organization (ISO)].
- About MR 0175. Reviewed and approved 15 proposals for change to the standard.
- Treat drilling fluids to chemically reduce corrosion failures.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
I said it all along it was from the GAS INDUSTRY.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-02-04/tourette-teen-mystery/52961882/1I said it all along it was from the Gas Industry but no one seemed to want to hear that. Glad they finally came around to it.
jaime
jaime
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Please help and getting geared up
Since I see my daughter once a year, I have been working on becoming somewhat healthy to visit her. It is hard for her to see me this way so I try to hide as much as possible. Right now I have about 12 pounds of fluid on me. Right leg almost twice size as left. (always the right leg it seems from those exposed over the years. We are hoping to someone get the fluid down but only after I visit my daughter today. Any suggestions to my medical problems at the moment would be helpful. This has been since the exposure H2S recently.
After I see my children will I then go full force into gas/oil. Poor De can't go back to her home in Lewiston for what they are done but she will tomorrow. I've been told one more big hit like that with H2S I may not make it out of it again. And I have proof it was that H2S exposure here in Michigan recently.
I'm kinda looking forward to making some noise again and our new approach that others may find helpful.
More later
jaime
Northern Michigan
After I see my children will I then go full force into gas/oil. Poor De can't go back to her home in Lewiston for what they are done but she will tomorrow. I've been told one more big hit like that with H2S I may not make it out of it again. And I have proof it was that H2S exposure here in Michigan recently.
I'm kinda looking forward to making some noise again and our new approach that others may find helpful.
More later
jaime
Northern Michigan
Please help us make noise in Northern Michigan
De LIddy will be at the Lewiston/Albert Township hall thursday January 12, 2011 to have
meeting with Judy Green and express concerns over the recent H2S exposure.
PLEASE IF YOU CAN BE THERE TOMORROW.
Also Chris Engle is doing a series of articles on what is going on in Lewiston/Gaylord
area. We need you to call with your concerns or just say you have known about this for
years. 989-732-1111.
IF YOU CAN HELP WITH THOSE 2 THINGS, BLESS YOU. I can't go to Lewiston anymore. My barrier line
is no more south than Indian River. I and De and others have never stopped fighting for you and us.
Please help by doing these 2 things.
Thanks and Bless you
Jaime Long Chimner
Cheboygan, MI 49721
Jaime L. Long "Big Oil in Small Town America"
http://www.etsy.com/shop/emilysbeeswaxitems my beeswax lip balm
Monday, December 26, 2011
Michigan update gas leak
Ok, we know how they lie to us. I have been on the phone so much first being a nice "girl" and then blasting them with the facts. Oh how did we do it 2004-2008 full time? Breitburn Energy, anyone deal with them (used to be Quick Silver). Oh how soon I forget, I start them with honey and them wham them with the truth and the facts. The lies being told is unbelievable.
The Canadian Police was called by the Sault (in the U.P.) and warned by Breitburn to expect calls of people complaining of
natural gas leaks. The H2S travelled farther than anyone imagined. I would say from Kalkaska to Petoskey up to the Mackinac Bridge, over to Cheboygan (me) and into Canada.
An official admitted it. Thank God for an insider. Have one in the hydrofracking too. We are dealing with Antrim fracking wells at the moment.
Better put on my old sweatshirt worn in Lewiston, 'how can i live my dream when my life is a nightmare'. Lots going on here in Northern Michigan and raising hell. 2 women hit with H2S watch out!! The TV stations are already downplaying it, as we expected, but we have the power of the internet and all you out there to give me the inspiration to give em heck. I'm good at that. Please keep Northern Michigan in your thoughts and ideas as my stroked brain isn't as up on it as I used to be.
Just wanted to share our progress with a compression station that also has an injection well, had a leak in a new fault valve in the Antrim well, the size of a quarter coming out at 600 psi for we claim, according to my physical symptoms, a lot longer than being admitted, imagine that.
Ideas accepted.
jaime
Northern Michigan
The Canadian Police was called by the Sault (in the U.P.) and warned by Breitburn to expect calls of people complaining of
natural gas leaks. The H2S travelled farther than anyone imagined. I would say from Kalkaska to Petoskey up to the Mackinac Bridge, over to Cheboygan (me) and into Canada.
An official admitted it. Thank God for an insider. Have one in the hydrofracking too. We are dealing with Antrim fracking wells at the moment.
Better put on my old sweatshirt worn in Lewiston, 'how can i live my dream when my life is a nightmare'. Lots going on here in Northern Michigan and raising hell. 2 women hit with H2S watch out!! The TV stations are already downplaying it, as we expected, but we have the power of the internet and all you out there to give me the inspiration to give em heck. I'm good at that. Please keep Northern Michigan in your thoughts and ideas as my stroked brain isn't as up on it as I used to be.
Just wanted to share our progress with a compression station that also has an injection well, had a leak in a new fault valve in the Antrim well, the size of a quarter coming out at 600 psi for we claim, according to my physical symptoms, a lot longer than being admitted, imagine that.
Ideas accepted.
jaime
Northern Michigan
Saturday, October 15, 2011
You have to check this out and bookmark it
http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/editorial_0542.shtm
Check out this website and then bookmark it, very interesting. Look at Texas.
Jaime
Northern Michigan
Check out this website and then bookmark it, very interesting. Look at Texas.
Jaime
Northern Michigan
Friday, October 7, 2011
Monday, September 19, 2011
Where will the satellite land?
Wonder where that satellite you don't hear about. You can track it on this site. Depends where it goes could impact the gas and oil industry.
jaime
jaime
Friday, August 19, 2011
Darn gas wells and forever fighting the health problems
I am so mad I could spit!!! You go to the doctor not expecting to be made worse by poor education by cleaning crews. OH! I went into the bathroom, there was no yellow cone outside the bathroom saying it was being cleaned and walked in floor wet, yellow cone inside the bathroom and chemical smell ......Joe found me and got a wheelchair and I got names to complain to as well as my incident report. Oh, I will go to the top with this and I will educate them on chemically sensitive people! There goes the next few days Damn! Even had my paper mask on with the big mask in the car. Never had a problem here before. Burns Clinic in Petoskey, you will know me personally!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jaime Chimner
Cheboygan, MI
Jaime Chimner
Cheboygan, MI
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Think the Floods will hurt all our gas and oil stuff?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvDbB3HqNcA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
It is a few minutes long but wow, well worth watching. It has main stream media news streams on it towards the end so it is happening. I wonder how gas and oil wells are not under water just spewing away? Ever wondered about it? Those in that area God be with you, and all of us.
jaime
Northern Michigan
It is a few minutes long but wow, well worth watching. It has main stream media news streams on it towards the end so it is happening. I wonder how gas and oil wells are not under water just spewing away? Ever wondered about it? Those in that area God be with you, and all of us.
jaime
Northern Michigan
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Michigan now has ER booklet out for disasters, by the STATE
Michigan has now put out an emergency preparedness booklet from chemical and biological emergency to earthquakes and floods etc. Wierd. Tells you what you should have in your as we call a "bug out bag". They way 3 days of food and water, people, we've been told a year's worth of anything you might need. Strange. http://www.michigan.gov/emd
jaime
jaime
Friday, May 20, 2011
- Hair conditioner
- Sunblock
- Nail polish
- Deodorant
- Mineral oil
- Lip gloss
- Gasoline
- Fertilizer
- Furniture polish
- Pesticides
- Plastics
- Paint thinners
- Solvents
- Motor oil
- Fuels (propane, butane, diesel)
- Petroleum jelly
- Art supplies (oil painting medium)
- Paste and liquid car waxes and polishes
- Kerosene
- Paraffin wax
- Tar
- Adhesives SORRY IT TOOK ME SO LONG, BUT THE LINK WASN'T WORKING. HERE IS THE LIST.
Chemical Sensitive here could be why.....
http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/03/08/petroleum-distillate-in-your-lip-gloss-and-furniture-polish-shown-to-cause-tissue-disease.htm
by SixWise.com
Perhaps you have never heard of petroleum distillates before, or given them much thought if you have, but it is almost certain you've used products that contain them - perhaps daily. These compounds, which are also called hydrocarbons or petrochemicals, are extracted by distillation during the refining of crude oil, and they're used as heating agents, propellants (gasoline) and solvents.
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that being exposed to petroleum distillates increases the risk of developing undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD), a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that involves a disorder of the body's connective tissues.
UCTD could include symptoms from, or evolve into any combination of, connective tissue diseases like lupus, scleroderma, polymyositis, vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome or fibromyalgia, yet has not met the official diagnostic criteria to be diagnosed as such.
Where are Petroleum Distillates Found?
Petroleum distillates are in hundreds of consumer products including:
According to the EPA, "Products that contain petroleum distillates should be used carefully. Wear gloves to avoid skin contact and avoid breathing vapors of volatile compounds."
That's because, in addition to raising the risk of UCTD, petroleum distillates can cause chemical pneumonia and can interfere with the lungs' functions-even resulting in death-if inhaled or swallowed. They can also irritate the skin and cause sensitivity to light.
Can Petroleum Distillates be Avoided?
As it stands, the average household contains, in the form of chemical products, about 10 gallons of potentially hazardous petrochemicals. Many, many household cleaners are based on petrochemicals, and while manufacturers are required to include warning labels on products that contain them, a New York Poison Control Center study found that 85 percent of product warning labels are inadequate.
So, when you clean, always seek out natural cleaners and use PerfectClean's ultramicrofiber cloths, which require the use of no cleaners at all yet clean down to a microscopic level-something ordinary cloth wipes can't do.
Further, petroleum distillates pose the greatest risk when they're breathed in. According to the EPA, even small amounts can cause harm. That's why ensuring that the air you breathe in your home is clean and free from toxins has become as important and necessary as locking your doors at night. Unfortunately, with all of the chemical products our society has come to rely on, indoor air can be two to 100 times more polluted than outdoor air, says the EPA!
When it comes to reducing your exposure to petroleum distillates, avoiding noxious chemical cleaners and other chemical products and purifying the air you and your family breathe while indoors are two of the best steps you can take.
Recommended Reading
The Health Dangers of Phenols Found in Common Household Cleaners
Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Genetic Abnormalities
Dust Dangers: What Exactly is Dust, and Why Can it be so Dangerous
Environmental Protection Agency: Petroleum
Household Products Database
American Journal of Epidemiology
Express Newsline January 16, 2005
Household Products Database
by SixWise.com
Perhaps you have never heard of petroleum distillates before, or given them much thought if you have, but it is almost certain you've used products that contain them - perhaps daily. These compounds, which are also called hydrocarbons or petrochemicals, are extracted by distillation during the refining of crude oil, and they're used as heating agents, propellants (gasoline) and solvents.
A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that being exposed to petroleum distillates increases the risk of developing undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD), a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that involves a disorder of the body's connective tissues.
UCTD could include symptoms from, or evolve into any combination of, connective tissue diseases like lupus, scleroderma, polymyositis, vasculitis, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome or fibromyalgia, yet has not met the official diagnostic criteria to be diagnosed as such.
Where are Petroleum Distillates Found?
Petroleum distillates are in hundreds of consumer products including:
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 Hundreds of products, including lip gloss, nail polish and hair conditioner, contain petroleum distillates that the EPA says should be used with caution. |
Can Petroleum Distillates be Avoided?
As it stands, the average household contains, in the form of chemical products, about 10 gallons of potentially hazardous petrochemicals. Many, many household cleaners are based on petrochemicals, and while manufacturers are required to include warning labels on products that contain them, a New York Poison Control Center study found that 85 percent of product warning labels are inadequate.
So, when you clean, always seek out natural cleaners and use PerfectClean's ultramicrofiber cloths, which require the use of no cleaners at all yet clean down to a microscopic level-something ordinary cloth wipes can't do.
Further, petroleum distillates pose the greatest risk when they're breathed in. According to the EPA, even small amounts can cause harm. That's why ensuring that the air you breathe in your home is clean and free from toxins has become as important and necessary as locking your doors at night. Unfortunately, with all of the chemical products our society has come to rely on, indoor air can be two to 100 times more polluted than outdoor air, says the EPA!
When it comes to reducing your exposure to petroleum distillates, avoiding noxious chemical cleaners and other chemical products and purifying the air you and your family breathe while indoors are two of the best steps you can take.
Recommended Reading
The Health Dangers of Phenols Found in Common Household Cleaners
Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Genetic Abnormalities
Dust Dangers: What Exactly is Dust, and Why Can it be so Dangerous
Environmental Protection Agency: Petroleum
Household Products Database
American Journal of Epidemiology
Express Newsline January 16, 2005
Household Products Database
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Northern Michigan oil and gas wells, again
www.michigandnr.com/ Publications/ PDFS/ ForestsLandWater/ Mineral/ Oil &GasMaps/ montmorency_oil_gas.pdf -
Department of Natural Resources map of the county I used to live in and raised my children
Northern Michigan
jaime
Department of Natural Resources map of the county I used to live in and raised my children
Northern Michigan
jaime
Gas wells in Northern Michigan
There are 2,519 active natural gas wells and 309 active oil wells in the Au Sable River watershed. ( In the area of Northern Michigan where we live. This is not a current map but you get the picture) To see the map of all those gas wells here is the link www.ausableanglers.org/files/Riverwatch60-4colorWeb.pdf
Oil wells are denoted with red dots; natural gas wells are in green. The map is based
on data provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
State officials said the vast
majority of wells in the Au Sable
River basin extract oil and natural
gas from underground geologic
formations without harming the
environment.
“When you look at the total
number of wells we have in this
area and the number of spills, we
have pretty good compliance,” (NO they're not!!!!)
THIS IS PART OF THE ARTICLE. IT IS A NUMBER OF PAGES TO DOWNLOAD BUT THE PICTURES WILL SHOW YOU JUST A SMALL PART OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN NEAR US AND THE AMOUNT OF WELLS AND MORE GOING IN.
Oil wells are denoted with red dots; natural gas wells are in green. The map is based
on data provided by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment.
State officials said the vast
majority of wells in the Au Sable
River basin extract oil and natural
gas from underground geologic
formations without harming the
environment.
“When you look at the total
number of wells we have in this
area and the number of spills, we
have pretty good compliance,” (NO they're not!!!!)
THIS IS PART OF THE ARTICLE. IT IS A NUMBER OF PAGES TO DOWNLOAD BUT THE PICTURES WILL SHOW YOU JUST A SMALL PART OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN NEAR US AND THE AMOUNT OF WELLS AND MORE GOING IN.
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