Thursday, May 20, 2010
While the Obama administration, the Interior Dept., and the EPA diddles, and BP, Transocean, and Halliburton play the Beltway blame game, actor Kevin Costner, is attempting to do what the Big Dogs have failed to accomplish: clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Watch it:
Costner invested 15 years and $24 million of his own money in new oil-separation technology designed to clean the oil from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico at a faster and more successful rate than ever before.
Moved by the catastrophic Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, the Oscar winner and ardent fisherman bought new centrifugal oil separators from the government in 1995 and developed the vacuum-like machines for use by the private sector.
If the venture is successful, I hope the Federal government, BP, Transocean and of course, Halliburton, reimburses the actor for his efforts. No one else seems to have a clue as to how we should next proceed in the clean-up effort.
Those God-damned Hollywood liberals.
Why can’t they just make movies, knock up starlets and get arrested for drunk driving on Mulholland?
I can already hear Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin, and the rest of the ROM, spewing their hatred.
This is why you need an environmental impact study submitted BEFORE the feds grant a drilling permit to an oil company.
I am at a loss to understand why President Obama would be so cozy with BP when it’s still his first term and there is no certainty the American people will vote to reelection in 2012.
The $64 thousand dollar question remains. How will they cap the leak? Until the leak is capped and the oil stops gushing into the Gulf and Loop Current, the clean up efforts is like spraying water on a skillet with burning cooking oil in it.
Maybe I’m paranoid but I just have a feeling in my bones that BP has no interest in capping the leak and cleaning the spill up. Why? Because as long as there is chaos in the Gulf, the petroleum markets remain unstable and prices at the retail delivery point, will continue to go up.
Why can’t the Obama administration find the cajones to stand up to BP? Is it just the campaign donations that have rendered Obama impotent against them?
I have a proposal for what the acronym for BP now stands for:
Banned Permanently
Let’s put Halliburton’s track record in the light of day.
Their last disaster Australia 2009
http://alaskafreepress.com/news/3526
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/04/eveningnews/main5527406.shtml
They seem to be specializing in major oil spills.
Costner may not have made any great movies lately, but this is a great thing.
It’s nice, to not have corporations holding you by the balls. I’m not saying the President’s response compares to the monkey’s non-response to Katrina, because it doesn’t. But it could have been a lot better.
The USA has no idea as to the precise amount of oil spewing into the Gulf because BP is blocking the Feds from access to the waters around the Deepwater Horizon area.
The Obama administration needs to be tough and transparent, and not kowtow to the oil industry before the impression takes hold that they’re subservient to special interests.
Time is running out for this administration.
BP has been involved in writing energy policy for a number of nations over the decades: Britain, Norway, Holland, Nigeria, Indonesia, Iran, and the USA. I am not surprised this catastrophe is unfolding in the Gulf and BP is doing as little as possible to correct the gross mismanagement of the cleanup effort.
So BP and the Feds are actually allowing this machine into the spill zone? I’m speechless.
On the other hand, if Adirondacky is right and BP wants the spill to worsen to make retail gas prices go up, I guess they will try to buy the device from Kevin Costner and then lock it away someplace on the Isle of White.
Think: GM and the electric car technology back in the 1950′s.
Good on Kevin Costner!
I hope the machine works and the clean up is a huge success. So far, all I’ve heard from the idiots at BP and the US Interior Dept. is, “let’s stuff cut hair in the leak site and pray!”
What a bunch of bumbling fools.
Think: GM EV1 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1
Even the outgoing CEO Wagoner said (as GM headed into bankruptcy)…. his biggest regret was to destroy the electric car, just before gas prices hit $4 bucks a gallon.
Instead they were heavy w gas guzzling SUV’s.
$50 to $75+ bucks @ the pump.
Every little bit helps. Meanwhile, the stain grows.
Im no oil man so I no little of it.however if they could get something over the pipe as I,ve heard why not do it again only pump or funnell it to land .even by temporary means .maybe by large pipes or even large hoses submerged in the water .maybe focus on getting it toward land,where its more manageable.I no shurely we have pumps big enough to keep up with the flow of the oil.I no its only a temporary fix.I no there,s weather and the ocean and depth to deal with. and lots of fast temporary enginering,it is a simple Idea I no . I also realize theres crushing pressure that deep .dont get much air in the pipe or hose its just more managable on land . more time to think about how to fix it .sounds stupid andor simple might work
I hope this works. Who cares what his politics are at this point. I’m not a liberal and I dont care who’s idea works. Anyone who attacks Costner for no reason is foolish. The Gulf and whats happening is more important that politics.
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Many people have proven ways to clean up oil I would not have picked costner for the job.