The Leaders in the Oil Crisis have stepped forward. And they are not Obama [View All]

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Pelosi, or Reid.They are not the EPA. Ironically, they are actor Kevin Costner, who purchased the technology necessary from the EPA in 1989 and invested $24n million developing what the government should have and Director James Cameron who has the subs our military doesn't!

Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is possible the earth is about to be rescued by Hollywood as the most powerful nation on earth sits stymied with their hands thrown up in the air. There is something oddly fitting about the idea of this dynamic duo riding to the rescue of the media constructed President.

Apparently the only ones willing to lead on this are Kevin Costner and James Cameron!
Isn't that a kick in the head? And to think Costner "Bought " the technology from the Energy Dept and developed it on his own while we develped nothing but we greenlight new drilling? And the US Government doesn't have subs capable of going deep enough but a film director does? Thank God for Hollywood.
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The "Kevin Costner Solution" to Oil Spill
LOS ANGELES — The "Kevin Costner solution" to the worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may work, and none too soon for the president of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana.

Costner has invested 15 years and about $24 million in a novel way of sifting oil spills that he began working on while making his 1995 maritime film, "Waterworld," a post-apocalyptic epic that was plagued by problems and was a huge box-office flop.

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Meanwhile, "Avatar" Director James Cameron has said he would make his underwater vessels available.

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Houghtaling said Costner bought the technology, developed with help from the Department of Energy after the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, and turned it over to a team of scientists and engineers for fine-tuning.

"The machines are essentially like big vacuum cleaners, which sit on barges and suck up oily water and spin it around at high speed," Houghtaling said. "On one side, it spits out pure oil, which can be recovered. The other side spits out 99 percent pure water."

Talk about the machine has intrigued BP, the party responsible for the well blowout that caused an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering one of the largest oil spills in U.S. history. "BP has agreed to test Mr. Costner's machines," BP spokesman Mark Proegler said. "Of course, they need to meet regulations with respect to discharge."

With oil washing up on a portion of southeastern Louisiana's swampy edges, word of Costner's devices and their potential capabilities triggered intense lobbying over where they should be stationed first.

High on the list of prospective sites is Plaquemines Parish, where "we've already lost 24 miles of marshland," Nungesser said. "Everything in it — frogs, crickets, fish and plant life — is dead and never coming back."

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