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BP oil spill clean-up facing tropical storm
A TROPICAL storm threatens oil recovery efforts, as a massive slick closes pristine beaches.
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Little spent on oil spill cleanup technology
While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like…
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BP puts Bob Dudley in key Gulf clean-up role
Embattled Englishman and CEO Tony Hayward on Wednesday handed over BP’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to an American executive brought up in one of the states affected by the disaster.
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Tern nesting areas being disturbed by oil spill cleanup workers, conservationist says
Species protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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Songs for the Spill to raise funds for Gulf oil cleanup
document.write (” “); Just as oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico is washing into shore, waves of aid to help the cleanup process are drifting in, and musical fundraisers are among them.
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ADEM boss says cleanup crews ‘still losing the battle’ against Gulf oil spill (with video)
DAUPHIN ISLAND — More than 2 million gallons of oil are skimmed, burned or collected from the site of BP PLC’s busted well every day, but cleanup crews are “still losing the battle,” according to Bruce Freeman, chief of the office of emergency response at the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
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Gulf Oil Cleanup Jobs May Be Identity Theft Scams
Scammers in the Pacific Northwest may be offering jobs cleaning up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that leave unemployed workers open to identity theft, warns the Better Business Bureau, Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, and the Yakima Indian tribal authorities.
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Actor Kevin Costner has been funding a team of scientists for 15 years in hopes of developing a technology to clean up massive oil spills, and his research has created a powerful centrifuge that he claims can separate oil from water and dump the oil into a holding tank. Costner and representatives of Ocean Therapy Solutions, the firm that developed the machine, demonstrated the centrifugal device for BP officials in New Orleans last week. “I believe they’ll want to do the right thing,” Costner told reporters at the time. “We’ve agreed to test it,” BP spokesman Mark Proegler told ABCNews.com today. Officials with Ocean Therapy Solutions have said one of their machines is capable of cleaning up to 210000 gallons of water per day. The oil extractor leaves the water 99 percent clean of crude, the firm said in a statement. “The machines are basically sophisticated centrifuge devices that can handle a huge volume of water and separate at unprecedented rates,” said Ocean Therapy Solutions CEO John Houghtaling. “They were developed from older centrifuge technology. Normal centrifuge machines are very slow and sensitive to different ratios of oil to water mixtures at intake.” The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute — more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2000 …
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