Kevin Costner Blasts Big Oil, GOP Apologizes to BP - News Headlines 17 June 2010
From Denny: Kevin Costner, of Ocean Therapy Solutions, is as frustrated as the Louisiana residents he is trying to help on the Gulf Coast. What it amounts to is that several companies with the technology to clean up this BP oil spill are unable to get through to the one BP exec who can green light a project, shelling out the money to get the job going. Clearly, BP is still playing games with people's lives, the government and the environment.
The EPA, BP and the Coast Guard have collected 1,900 proposals for how to clean up the Gulf. Only one proposal has made it through to even be considered - after all this big talk the past month of setting up and getting organized as to how to process it all. NOTHING has been deployed into the Gulf for clean up. The EPA doesn't even know if any of their proposals have been deployed or not. Just what is Browner doing all day? What a mess. They are like the Keystone Cops. No one knows what to do and even if they did they could not get their proverbial act together to organize properly and get the work done. This is sheer lunacy.
Microsorb Environmental Products is a Massachusetts company that has also tried to find its way through the bureaucratic BP maze. They use non-toxic, oil-eating microbes to clean up oil spills like in the Gulf. Yet BP has not acknowledged their usefulness nor shown any interest in deploying this easy technology for the clean up.
One small bit of good news from Citibank, that Big Bank that holds a lot of America's mortgages. Turns out if you live within 25 miles of the Gulf coast they will relent and not start foreclosure on you for another 90 days. Such big hearts, yeah, right. If these Big Banks had an ounce of sense they would restructure these loans so people could pay at reduced rates while the economy is in a slump. No one said the banking sector was nimble in their policies or constructively creative in problem-solving difficult economic issues.
Costner: "The whole world is watching as America fumbles its way through the greatest environmental disaster in history," Costner told the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship at a hearing Thursday in Washington. "I believe there are other small companies out there in the private sector just like us. You should know that negotiating your way through the bureaucratic maze that currently exists is like trying to play a video game that nobody can master."
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