Will and oil spill affect my family’s health? If you have recently suffered from a home heating oil spill or have been impacted by a neighbour having had one, the first thing you may think of might be “will an oil spill affect my family’s health?” Most of us have a fairly lessee faire attitude when it come to our own safety, however when it comes to our loved ones it is quite rightly a different matter. What are we talking about here? For those of us with heating systems that run on liquid oil this normally comes in the form of home heating oil, sometimes better known as kerosene or C2 Fuel Oil. Kerosene is a crude oil distillate with Carbon chain lengths mostly in the range of C9-C16. Kerosene is a blend of a very large number of different molecules rather than one pure substance, so data specifically related to it is limited. S, will kerosene affect my families health? So how do oil spills come about? In the majority of cases causation can be narrowed down to just a few reasons; • Will a leak from an oil tank affect my families health• Will a leak from […] read more