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Kevin Costner, BP announce plans to use Costner's centrifuges
WWL.com ^ | 18 June 2010 | Chris Miller

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at wwl.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bp; costner; gulf; oilspill
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To: maine-iac7

build it and they will come


61 posted on 06/18/2010 9:15:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: maine-iac7

Unions are nothing but gangs.


62 posted on 06/18/2010 9:15:33 AM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: dalebert
I am thinking they could have stopped this long ago

You're thinking right.

There is no reason for any of this oil to have reached shore.

As to the leak itself, Other countries have had such leaks - and STOPPED THE LEAK. All these people seem to be concerned about is capturing as much of the oil for themselves as possible. (And Obumbles, has been, after all, the largest 'giftee' of BP contributions for some time. The media keeps side stepping this.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64420A20100505

Russia, with a small nuclear device, stopped two such leaks.

63 posted on 06/18/2010 9:19:43 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Gondring

Come on! A leaking well is a problem. Testing a mitigation technique is not harming anything. Jeeze. Some people just try to be stupid!


64 posted on 06/18/2010 9:20:14 AM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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To: GOPJ

AMEN


65 posted on 06/18/2010 9:20:54 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: maine-iac7
As to the leak itself, Other countries have had such leaks - and STOPPED THE LEAK.

With all due respect, I am calling you on your claim that you know what is going on with that casing and the seafloor stratigraphy and stability, enough to claim that others have had such leaks.

As for Russia, I know of their gas-well nuking claims (and 1 in 5 failure rate), but haven't heard of them nuking two deepwater oil wells. Please provide sources.

66 posted on 06/18/2010 9:27:28 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Clara Lou
The only reason I can think that the Dutch assistance would be ignored is that Obama doesn’t want assistance,the excuse being that the Dutch ships do not meet EPA/OSHA/whatever standards...

Translation: they would not be union workers - who are protected by the JONES ACT - which Bush quickly waived during Karina.

His majesty would NOT waive the JOnes Act, because he obeys his union bosses.

67 posted on 06/18/2010 9:32:37 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Tallguy
Testing a potential mitigation technique is likely not harming anything.

Primum non nocere.

68 posted on 06/18/2010 9:33:31 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Clara Lou

69 posted on 06/18/2010 9:37:15 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Squawk 8888
Not just the Dutch- Canada offered a huge shipment of containment booms but was rebuffed

Ditto a company in Maine

70 posted on 06/18/2010 9:39:03 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Wpin

I doubt he is a conservative when he slams conservatives in his movies, I have quit watching him.


71 posted on 06/18/2010 9:45:39 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: maine-iac7

a great spoof on if obama had been in charge 1 June 1940, Dunkirk

http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=27632


72 posted on 06/18/2010 9:49:30 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Citizen Soldier
I doubt he is a conservative when he slams conservatives in his movies, I have quit watching him

So, should we refuse his help on the Gulf? s/

73 posted on 06/18/2010 9:51:09 AM PDT by maine-iac7
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To: Citizen Soldier

You may not know this...but in his movies he is acting...pretending to be another person for entertainment. In real life, he is a conservative...and I am glad for anyone who wants to be a conservative.


74 posted on 06/18/2010 9:54:15 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: jimbo123

I bet the career roughnecks in the drilling biz have similar stories.


75 posted on 06/18/2010 9:54:34 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Political correctness in America today is a Rip Van Winkle acid trip.)
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To: maine-iac7

I don’t care what he is and gladly accept anyone’s help to clean up the spill, just sick of his bashing Bush and conservatives in the past.


76 posted on 06/18/2010 10:06:22 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: Wpin

He is a big enough star to be able to show his true feelings. One example that comes to mind is the gratutious photos of clinton in his movie. He has bashed our side long enough. How do you know this information about him?


77 posted on 06/18/2010 10:08:41 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier ("You care far too much what is written and said about you." Axelrod to Obama 2006)
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To: Wpin
"In real life, he is a conservative..."

Is he? I heard that he was, but he flipped. And are these inaccurate?

http://newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Kevin_Costner.php

Costner, Kevin
Encino, CA 91436
Self/Actor

John Kerry (D)
President

JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC $2,000
primary 04/05/04

Costner, Kevin Mr.
Burbank, CA 91522
Self employed

Al Gore (D)
President
GORE/LIEBERMAN GENERAL ELECTION LEGAL AND ACCOUNTING COMPLIANCE FUND
$1,000
general 04/16/99

COSTNER, KEVIN
BURBANK, CA 91522
TIG PRODUCTIONS

Tom Daschle (D)
Senate - SD
NEW LEADERSHIP FOR AMERICA PAC
$1,000
general 03/04/98.....

78 posted on 06/18/2010 10:16:37 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Tallguy
How so? If he's chartered a vessel to troll around in international waters away for the immediate area of the well head? Freedom of Navigation, right?

Hello? HELLO?????

Look...take logic and common sense and throw them out the window when trying to understand the response to date. Common sense and logic have nothing to do with the response to date, which makes this truly outrageous.

First, the Coast Guard is keeping all traffic out of the area, except for "approved" traffic.

The EPA had not "approved" the machines or the foreign skimmers for use. Why? Well, aside from the Jones Act...the machines would scoop up muck presumably 75% oil, separate it...and discharge the separated water.

The separated water would be at about 99% pure, but the EPA doesn't allow discharge of polluted water, even though the water was much more pure than what had been scooped up.

No, you've got government by lawyers, which means at any time their three top priorities are:

--Making sure everyone knows BP is to blame, and will be threatened and punished.(because, after all, that's what lawyers do)

--Making sure they do nothing which would allow someone to blame them at a later date, when the hindsight and shooting of survivors will inevitably start.

--Making sure everyone knows who is actually in charge, and has proper respect for "authoriteh!"

So, the operation is not about actual cleanup, but of making sure blame is properly assigned.

In this circumstance, Costner is showing good sense.

Cynic I am, I believe this feeds one of the Left's issues, global warming and drilling for oil. If I believe they are guided by Rahm's Law(never let a crisis go to waste) then obviously, the bigger the crisis, the bigger the opportunity.

So, what's the greater upside/downside? Ending the crisis sooner or later?

I believe this prez is the first political suicide bomber.

79 posted on 06/18/2010 10:24:50 AM PDT by gogeo ("Every one has a right to be an idiot. He abuses the privilege!" Groucho Marx)
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To: monkapotamus

Here are his own words in an interview in 2008;

I said most people have the idea that Costner is a Republican, but he says he’s an independent.

“I grew up in a Republican household, and I heard [my] father go, ‘Damn that Kennedy,’ and when you’re 12 years old, you’re probably thinking, if you love your father, yeah, damn that Kennedy. My family was very staunchly Republican. I had to evolve and that took time for myself. I moved very quickly as a 20-year-old. I have very conservative roots, but my evolution allowed me to make ‘JFK’ and ‘13 Days’ and those kinds of movies. I’ve always felt too limited by both parties.”


80 posted on 06/18/2010 11:03:42 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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