BP calls in Costner's $26m vacuum cleaners to mop up huge oil spill

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bp-calls-in-costners-26m-vacuum-cleaners-to-mop-up-huge-oil-spill-1979976.html

The 'Waterworld' star has spent 15 years developing device to separate oil from sea water and it is now being put to work

By Guy Adams in Los Angeles

Saturday, 22 May 2010

Desperate times call for desperate measures. So with hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico each day, and its corporate image starting to resemble the tar-covered sea creatures now washing on to Louisiana's fragile shoreline, BP has called on Kevin Costner to help stave off environmental Armageddon.

The Hollywood star has been bobbing around the Mississippi Delta helping representatives of the British oil firm and US coastguard test-drive a stainless steel device called the Ocean Therapy. In a claim which sounds as unlikely as the plot premise of Waterworld, he says it can quickly and efficiently clean oil from tainted sea water.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. I sure hope it works....

[dchill]

2. Whatever works. nt

[polichick]

3. Sure hope this works - and I like the idea that the Waterworld guy...

...might end up helping the waterworld of the Gulf!

[dchill]

4. Not to mention...

"If you build it, they will come."

[SharonRB]

5. Quite ironic, huh?

[onestepforward]

6. They have 26 of these machines

and they need to them up and running now! Thanks so much Kevin Costner!

[jtrockville]

7. Hooray for Costner. Booo, hisssssssss to BP.

Remind me gain WHY criminals are in charge of cleaning up the crime scene?
Only BP has the expertise? pfffft

[Beaverhausen]

8. Oh my!

[saracat]

9. One wonders whether the American Press will even notice? Sounds like this very well will work and

so much for those who said Costner was naive and an idiot! How interesting that his brother is a scientist and was behind this idea.Shows how worthless our EPA really is. And they still have nothing to offer!