You can be sure of this: The chemicals they were 'throwing' around
at the end of the war for the 'experimental bioremediation' of
1991, would have had strong concentrations of 2-butoxyethanol. No
one learned anything from the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup - so
this bad chemical would most likely have been there.
http://www.valdezlink.com/wondering.htm#exp
As shared by the Aug, 91 National Geographic:
quote:
"A small Texas company Alpha 30 Environmental had
come from Austin to cleanse Saudi wetlands with its oil-eating
microbes and a special biocatalyst to stimulate them. The Research
Institute of King Fahd University set up experiments to test
the technology and its after effects. Alpha was optimistic that
it would soon win a test of its technology on a Saudi
beach."
I tell you a truth, many would be harmed by this chemical -
just getting near it; we had men who didn't even work on the oil
spill, but maybe getting near some of the product that oozed out
of its containers... plus they sloshed them around places that
they shouldn't be ... die of lung/lymph/bone/liver cancer and
another with kidney and liver.
There were military medics and volunteers who washed the oiled
birds; there were amphibious Navy ships that housed the beach
cleanup crews in the 1991 'oil spill cleanup,' too
Map 
The
Nat Georgraphic article
More info http://www.valdezlink.com/gulfwar_cleanup.htm
here: In Search of
an Oasis - Opportunity in the Middle East by Dan C. VanderMeer
Actually there wasn't much follow up on who was doing what. And
in the case of Alpha 30 Environmental (a non-existent co today?)
they must have failed badly to be keeping what they did a secret.