for six weeks, he worked on a ship that super heated sea water to pressure wash exxon s crude oil off rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily smelling mist, permeating the ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less. i m serious. there was no follow up. exxon told us it doesn t know how many cleanup workers became sick. dalthorp never filed a lawsuit or a claim. he could never prove the work he did on the valdez made him sick. exxon did pay to study the health effects of almost every single creature that came in contact with oil in prince william sound. every creature, but one.
it s not just wildlife getting sick here in the gulf. bp is facing a serious accusation. some say bp is taking a page straight out of the playbook they ve seen before, more than 20 years ago when the exxon valdez ran aground in prince william sound. drew griffin is keeping them honest. 21 years ago, he started getting sick when the exxon valdez hit a reef in alaska. back then he thought the valdez was a blessing. i was out of a job. i had no choices on that. i was behind in my house payments. so and no health insurance. for six weeks, he worked on a ship that super heated sea water to pressure wash exxon s crude oil off rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily smelling mist, permeating the
20 years ago when the exxon valdez ran aground in prince william sound. drew griffin, of our special investigations unit, is keeping them honest. roy dalthorp says he started getting sick 21 years ago, when the exxon valdez hit a reef in alaska. back then he thought the valdez was a blessing. i was out of a job. i had no choices on that. i was behind in my house payments. so and no health insurance. for six weeks, he worked on a ship that super heated sea water to pressure wash exxon s crude oil off rocks. his photos on board show the steam that he says was an oily smelling mist, permeating the ship where he worked 16-hour days and that is when the cough began. nobody ever checked with us, nobody. they never did a follow up on us, never asked if we ever had any consequences of it. they could have cared less.