According to one report most of the workers and volunteers that helped clean the Exxon Valdez Spill are dead, with the average age at death in the mid 50's.
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Gee that is depressing for anyone living in the affected area of DWH.
So what alternative was offered? Anything? Based on some of the ongoing oil operations and spills that have occurred in the past I would think there would be some type of alternative/safety precautions that are being implemented as this particular spill is being handled.
I suspect that this is embellished to mislead, cause fear and to make the spill harder to clean up simply for self serving reasons. I don't believe the claims.
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That's interesting, but I wonder if there are other correlations at work. Did Exxon hire otherwise unemployable "day labor" types, for example? From what I've seen, they mostly appear to be smokers and drinkers and don't exactly live a healthy life style. Probably never had health insurance, either.
Does the study tell how the people died? I'd throw out anyone who died in a car accident or of a drug overdose, for example. Was there a correlation in a specific cause of death, like lung cancer from inhaling toxic fumes?
The average life span of a farmworker is 49. They just have it rougher than the rest of us.
Actually there is no mention of a "study" that proves this. Just a clip of some talking head. I wasn't even able to find her name or any other source for this information except her own quote. In the comment section below the article are many people that claim to have been clean-up workers that disagree with her statement.
Ah, the media now-a-days. You can just say whatever you want and do not have to back it up.
