Posted on 06/18/2010 8:16:13 AM PDT by maine-iac7
Actor Kevin Costner today joins with BP officials to tout plans to finally start using a machine Costner has backed that can rapidly remove 99 percent of oil from water.
Costner said it wasn't until this week that BP decided to put his machines into action. Costner still isn't happy it took this long -- since he helped develop the machine a decade ago -- and arrived to help with the Deepwater Horizon disaster less than two weeks after the explosion.
"Twenty-first century technology has sat idly on the shelf for ten years when it could have been deployed as a first, most efficient responder to mitigate the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe," the actor told a U.S. Senate committee, blaming bureaucratic obstacles and general intransigence kept his company sidelined for weeks.
Costner said took weeks to get Coast Guard approval for a test run. After tweaking the machines a bit, Costner says BP official Doug Suttles called this week with good news:
"He told me that it was working against the dispersants, that it was handling the variations of oil mixtures and thickness present in the gulf," said Costner. He ordered 32 machines and told me that this represented the beginning of us working together."
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I read a bit more about him and have to say that after reading several statements from him, I cannot say his is conservative. Indeed, he probably is not. Sad really, thought he was a better man.
His campaigning for Barack Obama might have been a quick clue. :-)
Kevin Costner and the Modern West - Great country music album too.
Welcome to the everyday world of evironmental-regulation lunacy.
So Kevin designed it?
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