Next up... lawsuits due to dispersant contamination of fish and fowl imbibed by humans who then subsequently develop various cancers. Lawyers must be salivating.
There are also other naturally based products that have a selective affinity for oil, some of them moss based. Both the inventors and the manufacturers have been in contact with the powers that be but, to date, I haven’t heard of any use of those products. They’d seem ideal for things like sopping up oil behind the booms.
the dispersants might be worse than the oil
PHOTO/VIDEO RELEASE: Oil dispersants released from aircraft
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doc/2931/545403/
YOUNGSTOWN-WARREN AIR RESERVE STATION, Ohio - U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aerial spray aircraft maintainers from the 910th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, remove the ground load station after refilling a C-130 with oil-dispersing chemicals on the runway of the Stennis International Airport, Miss., on May 9, 2010. Members of the 910th Airlift Wing are in Mississippi to assist with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The 910th AW specializes in aerial spray and is the Department of Defense’s only large-area fixed-wing aerial spray unit. U.S. Air Force video by Staff. Sgt. Prentice Colter.
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