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Kevin Costner’s Oil Extractor Ready to Take Action in the Gulf

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 14 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Kevin Costner, actor, musician and environmentalist is ready to help clean up the Gulf oil spill with a centrifuge device that is already in the Gulf waters, ready for action. Concerned about the short-term and long-term ramifications of oil spills in 1993, Costner procured a technology transfer fr...

Kevin Costner sells 32 oil spill machines to BP to recycle 6 million gallons of water a day

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 10 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Kevin Costner presented his oil spill solution to Congress and demonstrated his machine that recycles and separates oil from water with a 99.9% success rate. Actor, Kevin Costner said that he was inspired by the Exxon-Valdez oil spill in 1989 to come up with an idea that would safely separate oil fr...

James Cameron Will Fix the Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 in Oil Spill

There have been several options bandied about as to how to stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. Some have suggested nuking the spill, while Hoda and Kathie Lee of the Today show have offered up even stranger solutions. Clearly, someone needs to get “titanic” on the Gulf. Enter James Camero...

After oil spill cleanup, will we tighten the laws?

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 09 June 2010 in Oil Spill

As the BP oil spill cleanup continued last week, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) proposed new legislative action that would raise the BP's liability. Are we entering a new era of increased regulation? Earlier this week, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) responded to the continuing Gulf oi...

Make Us Proud - A Letter from Obama to the people affected by the Oil Spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 07 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Yesterday, I visited Caminada Bay in Grand Isle, Louisiana -- one of the first places to feel the devastation wrought by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While I was here, at Camerdelle's Live Bait shop, I met with a group of local residents and small business owners. Folks like Floyd Lasseigne...

It's Getting Hot in Here - A Letter from New Delhi

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 07 June 2010 in Oil Spill

I’m writing this from New Delhi, thousands of miles away from the tragically polluted Gulf Coast, and I’m crying. This crisis has felt so far away from me over the past few weeks, as I’m sure the droughts of Andhra Pradesh and the water crises in Karnataka have felt far from people in Wa...

The End of Oysters? Oyster Party in New Orleans

Posted by ep-admin on Monday, 07 June 2010 in Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS — Aaron Jones made his way through the crowd to the foot of the stage, chin raised. An oyster shucking contest was under way, and the master of ceremonies was going around distributing oysters to audience members as if giving Communion, dropping one in Mr. Jones’s open mouth. “Plump and...

Where is the oil going?

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 07 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico has steadily taken its toll on the waters of the gulf and surrounding coastlines. However, the prevailing currents will not allow the oil to be stationary. The Loop Current, which is a clockwise current in the Gulf that originates from Caribbean waters that flow ...

Don Young: Gulf Oil Spill 'Not An Environmental Disaster'

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 05 June 2010 in Oil Spill

Don't worry about the oil spilling into the Gulf, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) says, because the worst spill in U.S. history is "not an environmental disaster," just nature taking its course. "This is not an environmental disaster, and I will say that again and again because it is a natural phenomenon...

Gulf oil spill's threat to wildlife turns real

Posted by plantitfilm on Saturday, 05 June 2010 in Oil Spill

ON BARATARIA BAY, La. – The wildlife apocalypse along the Gulf Coast that everyone has feared for weeks is fast becoming a terrible reality. Pelicans struggled to free themselves from oil thick as tar that gathers in hip-deep pools, while others stretch out useless wings, feathers dripping with crud...

BP's cap starts collecting oil, but spill still threatens Florida

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 05 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The Gulf of Mexico oil spill continued to washed ashore Florida's Panhandle on Saturday, stunning tourists and locals alike, as government officials said the amount of oil a makeshift containment cap is capturing from the ocean-bottom gusher is slowly increasing. BP's cap, initially put into plac...

Will James Cameron Save BP From Further Embarrassment?

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 04 June 2010 in Oil Spill

It has now been 45 days since the oil rig explosion in the Gulf began unloading oil and polluting our oceans and there’s only one man that can fix this problem – Mr. James Cameron. After countless problem solvers have come forward to help with the oil spill, what better solution than to have a hot-s...

How to Contain an Oil Spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 04 June 2010 in Oil Spill

At present there is a large oil release in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not the first of its kind. Obviously one must try to confine it and then clean it up but what it is the right and effective way? What is a waste of time and resources and what works? Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drill...

Oil still spilling after 42 days!!

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 03 June 2010 in Oil Spill

This is horrible. The amount of oil being spill is tremendous. This oil will cause mass devastation to the Earth. I think we are lucky it happened in America, any other country may have tried to ignore it and nothing would have been done. Something needs to be done to prevent this disaster from aff...

This Oil Leak Is Really Pissing Me Off

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 03 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The BP Oil Spill in the Gulf is in my opinion the giant back step that anyone who cares about the environment did not need. So what to do about this? Anybody with an answer please leave a comment.

Gulf Coast warned oil may leak until August

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

U.S. government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude. The disaster, in its 42nd day on Monday, is already the larg...

'Flotels' await oil spill cleanup workers on Gulf

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

The 40-foot-long corrugated steel boxes, resembling oversized white shipping containers, are stacked two high and three wide atop a barge at Port Fourchon, the oil industry's hub on the Gulf of Mexico. The words "Martin Quarters" painted in black offer the only clue that they're not stuffed with car...

Oil Spills for Dummies

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 01 June 2010 in Oil Spill

by Deborah Blum So, at a Sunday news briefing, British Petroleum's CEO, Tony Hayward, announced that there are no underwater plumes of oil resulting from the April accident at the company's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Why? Well, first BP's testing hasn't found any such evidence. An...

Gulf Oil Threatens an Underwater 'Rainforest'

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

The WeatherBird II is not a pretty ship. A boxy, businesslike, 194-ton vessel, it prowls the waters off St Petersburg, Fla. where it competes for attention with the cruise ships and sport yachts and other glamour boats. But the WeatherBird II was the buzz of the Gulf on Friday, after its ala...

Top Kill Failure – BP Trying Out New Plan To Stop Gulf Oil Spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Oil Spill

BP Top Kill, BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010: BP’s hopes to attempt to plug the leaking oil well with their Top Kill plan, turned out to be a failure. Ever since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion took place last month, the leaking oil well has not been fixed, and this has resulted ...