Kevin Costner saves the day in the Gulf of Mexico?

heard about this weeks ago.

it's really his brothers work

not that investing in his brother didn't take guts. i got to give the guy props for that.

let's just hurry up and get that oil out of the water
 
I usually scoff at celebrities involved in such things, like Obama using James Cameron as an advisor on the oil leak, but this looks like the real deal. You are correct it is his brother's company, but it is only getting exposure due to Kevin's involvement.

Yes, let's get this nightmare under control.
 
redrumloa said:
I usually scoff at celebrities involved in such things, like Obama using James Cameron as an advisor on the oil leak,
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Cameron was consulting on deep water work, a thing that he has a lot of experience with.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
redrumloa said:
I usually scoff at celebrities involved in such things, like Obama using James Cameron as an advisor on the oil leak,
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Cameron was consulting on deep water work, a thing that he has a lot of experience with.
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He's a director.
 
redrumloa said:
FluffyMcDeath said:
redrumloa said:
I usually scoff at celebrities involved in such things, like Obama using James Cameron as an advisor on the oil leak,
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Cameron was consulting on deep water work, a thing that he has a lot of experience with.
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He's a director.
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Yes. That's one of the things he does. He's also a member of the NASA advisory council. He's also done a lot of deep water work in his film career and sort of followed deep water work as a second career. He has done documentaries on the Titanic and the Bismark and worked with engineers and scientists using and developing technologies for these films.

Here is a transcript of an interview with Cameron from 2003 and here is a TED talk he gave in February of this year.
 
redrumloa said:
Costner cleanup device gets high marks from BP
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Kudos to Costner

In his congressional testimony, Costner recounted his struggle to effectively market the centrifuge. He explained that although the machines are quite effective, they can still leave trace amounts of oil in the treated water that exceeds current environmental regulations.
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Requiring water to be 99.985% pure to be discharged by oil skimmers is Obama EPA stupidity.


Costner's is not the only skimmer being blocked from clean up by the EPA & Coast Guard

In 66 days, the total by all ships skimming in the Gulf is 600,000 barrels of oil. The A-Whale ship’s owners claim it can skim 500,000 barrels per day.

Worlds largest oil skimmer docked in Norfolk, VA waiting on approval to begin skimming operations

TMT officials said the company does not yet have US government approval to assist in the cleanup. Because the process wouldn't remove all traces of oil from the seawater, TMT will likely have to gain a special permit from the EPA. TMT also is working with the Coast Guard to gain approval to operate in the gulf, which may require a waiver from the Jones act a 90-year-old maritime act that restricts foreign-flagged vessels from operating in U.S. waters
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Bush immediately waved the Jones act after Katrina to aid in clean up. Why hasn't Obama waved the act? Doesn't want to piss of his union buddies, thats why.

Obama's crisis management team spends more time worrying about regulations and red tape than cleaning up the mess.

The constitutional scholar and Nobel Prize winning occupant of the Oval Office, should know that among his many super powers, he is also the head of the Executive branch of the US govt. He can instantly issue an executive order overriding any regulation that was not explicitly created by an act of Congress. Millions of gallons per day of raw crude pouring into the gulf, but Obama won’t risk letting a ship try to skim the oil up because it hasn’t been tested to meet EPA “standards”! All the impediments could have been swept aside 70 days ago via a simple, one-sentence presidential directive.
 
metalman said:
Requiring water to be 99.985% pure to be discharged by oil skimmers is Obama EPA stupidity.

Costner's is not the only skimmer being blocked from clean up by the EPA & Coast Guard
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The article suggests that the relevant authorities are currently looking at this vessel and working on a waiver that will permit it to work in the gulf. The article also mentions (though extremely briefly) one other stumbling block. The vessel has no contract yet with BP.

I don't imagine you'd be in favour of the government forcing BP to use this vessel. Government shouldn't be telling private companies how to run their business. And surely you wouldn't be suggesting that the government should hire the ship and bill the tax payer when private enterprise can do a much better job for less.
 
Does the name Kindra Arnesan ring any bells? She's simply a woman who was willing to talk.

She mentioned that she had been interviewed for 60 Minutes (Australia) and that the show had been posted to their website but was taken down within 24 hours. The episode is now (for a while anyway) available on YouTube.
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Meanwhile other you tube posters are putting up their own reports.
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The sheer amount of news and information that some might wish not to have out there that can be found on the net makes you realize why it might be desirable to have a kill switch for it.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
The article suggests that the relevant authorities are currently looking at this vessel and working on a waiver that will permit it to work in the gulf. The article also mentions (though extremely briefly) one other stumbling block. The vessel has no contract yet with BP.
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Aaah, the Obama Catch 22, you can't get a contract with BP until the vessel meets Coast Guard & EPA requirements, one of the Coast Guard requirements is to comply with the Jones Act.

Fred McCallister has a fleet of skimmers under lease, he wants to send them to clean off the coast of Alabama because he lives there. He can't get a waver of the Jones Act.

Dallas Investment Banker Requests Jones Act Waiver to Send Skimmers to Gulf, Sends Open Letter to Admiral Allen

Governor Jindal in Louisiana, Governor Perry in Texas, Governor Riley in Alabama, Florida Attorney General McCollum have requested Obama wave the Jones Act.

Obama had the State Department turn away assistance from 13 Nations, telling them that the Jones Act prevented them from providing assistance

BRUSSEL - Belgische en Nederlandse baggeraars hebben technologie in huis om de olieramp in de Golf van Mexico te bestrijden. Maar de ‘Jones Act' verbiedt hen om in de VS te werken
 
redrumloa said:
FluffyMcDeath said:
redrumloa said:
I usually scoff at celebrities involved in such things, like Obama using James Cameron as an advisor on the oil leak,
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Cameron was consulting on deep water work, a thing that he has a lot of experience with.
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He's a director.
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And Ronald Reagan was an actor, and a pretty bad one too.

But as for Cameron, that's what I thought at first too, but it turns out Cameron does way more then just make movies. He's big into deep sea diving and has quick and easy access to most of the world's experts in the field. Whether you like his movies or not, he's no dummy.
 
Avertible catastrophe

Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly oil-free isn't good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million -- if water isn't at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico.

When ships in U.S. waters take in oil-contaminated water, they are forced to store it. As U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen explained in a press briefing on June 11, "We have skimmed, to date, about 18 million gallons of oily water--the oil has to be decanted from that [and] our yield is usually somewhere around 10% or 15% on that." In other words, U.S. skimmer ships have mostly been removing water from the Gulf
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Bush suspend EPA regulations in the aftermath of Katrina, to allow the use of available fuel supplies from refineries, even if it was not the correct EPA mandated blend required for the area. This stopped severe price gouging on the Atlantic seaboard from major fuel pipeline & refinery disruptions.
 
metalman said:
Bush suspend EPA regulations in the aftermath of Katrina, to allow the use of available fuel supplies from refineries, even if it was not the correct EPA mandated blend required for the area. This stopped severe price gouging on the Atlantic seaboard from major fuel pipeline & refinery disruptions.
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Another clear demonstration of the Bush Socialist agenda. He forced companies to not operate in a free market when disaster struck. I will call him Pinko and he'll be my own banana dictator..
 
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