Oil Spill Clean Up is one big Proven Money making Conspiracy Gulf of Mexico Oil spill

June 2-3, 2010 -- Special to WMR - Oil Cleanup in Gulf.
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June 2-3, 2010 -- Special to WMR - Oil Cleanup in Gulf.
Oil Spill Clean Up is one big Proven Money making Conspiracy Gulf of Mexico Oil spill
By Kevin Daum

Imag­ine you per­son­ally knew (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that a huge earth­quake was going to hit a major city and cause mas­sive dam­age, loss of life, star­va­tion, loss of employ­ment , destruc­tion of prop­erty as well as count­less hard­ships. Imag­ine that the major­ity (say 95%) of this could be avoided, if only the eas­ily avail­able resources and tech­nol­ogy were deployed to pre­vent this before it hap­pened. Would you deploy the tech­nol­ogy? Would you deploy the resources to pre­vent 95% of the problem?

Nat­u­rally, any sane, eth­i­cal per­son would. How­ever, what if you stood to earn $100’s of mil­lions from this dis­as­ter? Your choice … do the right thing or go for the money? I under­stand that this is a hypo­thet­i­cal sit­u­a­tion and pre­dict­ing an earth­quake is pretty much impos­si­ble; how­ever, know­ing an oil spill is going to hap­pen is not. It has hap­pened in the past, it just hap­pened in the Gulf of Mex­ico and it will hap­pen in the future. Sadly, there are peo­ple who have actu­ally made the choice to take the money at everyone’s and every liv­ing things’ expense and this arti­cle is about show­ing you the proof.

Hav­ing said that, you need to know how oil spills are cur­rently being cleaned up, why they cost so much and how they should be cleaned up to min­i­mize the dam­age using the tech­nol­ogy that would have min­i­mized the harm and cost? Let me break this down into sim­ple com­mon sense steps for you start­ing with plug­ging the hole(s). What they are doing is try­ing to make a super duper cap­ping device that allows them to con­trol the spill and keep pump­ing oil. So far it’s not work­ing and there are some pretty impres­sive reasons/excuses why this is not work­ing. Let’s apply some com­mon sense to this prob­lem. Find a barge, fill it with cement, tow it over the hole, sink it and prob­lem solved. Is that too sim­ple? A cou­ple of days work and a lit­tle expense to min­i­mize a major dis­as­ter. Please tell me that this is just incompetence.

Now that the spill is mov­ing and spread­ing, con­tain­ing the spill is of major impor­tance. This is done with booms and you basi­cally cor­ral the spill. Then you use skim­mers that grab the oil and you pump it into a ship. The prob­lem that occurs is if the water is mov­ing faster then 3 to 4 knots it’s impos­si­ble to cor­ral the spill and it starts mix­ing with the water and form­ing mousse. This is like multi-size bal­loons that stick to every­thing when they pop and make all those scary pic­tures of bird and otters cov­ered in oil and dying a hor­ri­ble death. In other words, it’s the worst case situation.

Typ­i­cally the idea is to beach the spill so it can be dealt with and not spread any fur­ther. Unfor­tu­nately, with a spill of this mag­ni­tude that means the clean up is huge and it will end up just like the Exxon Valdez spill where you can still turn over rocks today and find the oil. What they are doing is spray­ing a toxic chem­i­cal called a dis­per­sant that is designed to break the oil down into smaller par­ti­cles and make the oil non sticky. The prob­lem is the chem­i­cal itself has lim­ited effec­tive­ness and is toxic. Remem­ber that the prob­lem is the oil is sticky so it sticks to liv­ing things and every­thing else. As it hap­pens, no one takes into con­sid­er­a­tion that the oil is still there, it just mixes bet­ter with the water. Sadly, with this pro­ce­dure the beaches will be coated with oil for years killing all the life and destroy­ing the local economies. Did I men­tion the chem­i­cal has huge profit mar­gins and they use tonnes of it? I won­der who sup­plies the chemical?

It gets bet­ter; when the spill is on the beach they get out these really cool look­ing rags made from a sub­stance called poly propy­lene and var­i­ous other things includ­ing human hair and chicken feath­ers and dump them into the spill. Looks great for the cam­eras and to be fair, it does have a lim­ited effec­tive­ness. The prob­lem with these mate­ri­als is that the oil is on the out­side of the mate­r­ial and is still sticky. With that done, they then pro­ceed to pick up each oily rock and wipe it with the rags and then put it back into the water. I’m not kid­ding you, they actu­ally do this. They put the oily rocks back in the water. The rea­son­ing is they want to min­i­mize the change to the nat­ural geol­ogy of the beach, etc. It’s kind of like say­ing “Doc­tor, Doc­tor don’t cut out all that skin can­cer from my chin, you might ruin my beau­ti­ful pro­file”. Now you don’t want to know where the actual recov­ered oil goes? Or maybe you do but have fun try­ing to find out. Native land is usu­ally a great choice to get around those pesky water pro­tec­tion laws and expen­sive haz­ardous waste dis­posal costs. Did I men­tion those costs are usu­ally included in the clean-up estimates?

I could go on and on for pages and pages with the com­plete utter non­sense sur­round­ing spill cleanup yet the bot­tom line is always the same. The envi­ron­ment is destroyed along with the local econ­omy, lots of oil is left behind and then the lawyers get to jump in and make lots of money to add injury to insult. Don’t believe me? Just take a trip up to Alaska and ask Dr Riki Ott her opin­ion on the sub­ject. She wrote the book on that Exxon spill fiasco.

Now that you know how not to clean up an oil spill, let’s look at apply­ing some sci­ence and com­mon sense that all the top peo­ple in the game are fully aware of and make sure does not get used.

Step 1. Cap the hole. Step 2. Con­tain the spill with booms. Step 3. Quickly and effec­tively stop the oil from being sticky. This is the first part that they don’t want you to know about. For decades, hun­dreds of mil­lions of dol­lars have been lost by com­pa­nies that set up to make oil recov­ery mate­ri­als made from poly­mers that grab the oil and turn it into non-sticky rub­ber. Remem­ber sticky is bad, non sticky is good. The shoes you are wear­ing, the bub­ble gum you’re chew­ing, the com­puter plas­tic and the paint on your wall are all made from these polymers.

It’s a well known fact that spe­cific poly­mers turn oil into rub­ber and stop it from stick­ing to sur­faces and there are many of these poly­mers and dozens of for­mu­la­tions. In other words its not some big secret, it’s a well known fact in the indus­try, I’ve got thirty or forty in my lab alone. These poly­mers are made into booms or snakes and sim­ply put into the spill and then removed and recycled.

If the cur­rent spill had been capped and con­tained, we could have used heli­copter, planes and boats to turn the spill into rub­ber and have cleaned it up long before it hit the beach. Even if the spill had got­ten out of con­trol, it could have been made non sticky and mas­sively reduced the dam­age. To add insult to injury, the argu­ment used to stop the use of these mate­ri­als so they can keep mak­ing ridicu­lous prof­its is that a fish or bird may eat some poly­mer. This ignores the fact that these poly­mers smell and taste funny which seri­ously negates this pos­si­bil­ity. If you had the choice of being sud­denly coated in black goo that made you drown and put you into shock with a high prob­a­bil­ity of dying hor­ri­bly or tak­ing your chances on eat­ing a piece of rub­ber but you would sur­vive, which would you choose?

So, let’s get back to the spill response. Imag­ine the spill occurred and a bunch of heli­copters were alerted and started drop­ping booms filled with poly­mer and a GPS or trans­ducer attached into the spill. You’ve seen this in movies when they are chas­ing enemy subs. By the time the boats turned up the entire spill could be ren­dered non sticky and they would sim­ply haul in the booms. Is that too sim­ple? I’ve got to stop giv­ing away these com­pletely obvi­ous ideas that could make me bil­lions of dollars.

Now that that has not hap­pened lets move to the beach and step 4 . Again poly­mers can be sim­ply put into sand blasters that you can rent at your local hard­ware store and fired into the oil to turn it non sticky. Also, there are sev­eral types of com­pletely non-toxic bac­te­ria that can be sim­ply mixed into the sand and all the oil can either be recy­cled or eaten leav­ing a clean beach. Yes, really it’s that sim­ple Here’s a neat idea, how about send­ing some of that bac­te­ria up to the folks in Alaska?

So, get­ting to the bot­tom line, I’m not being sar­cas­tic just for the fun of it. I’m try­ing to get you to under­stand that the whole thing is a big media event to make you believe that it’s really a lot harder to deal with the prob­lem then it really is. The prob­lem is that this is being done at your expense. All spills can be quickly ren­dered non sticky and recov­ered at less then 10% of the cost of the cur­rent fraud­u­lent and ama­teur meth­ods being used. It’s time that a seri­ous con­gres­sional inves­ti­ga­tion is done into the flow of money, the peo­ple con­trol­ling this shell game and we start tak­ing care of our envi­ron­ment and the eco­nomic health of our com­mu­ni­ties. Not to men­tion put some peo­ple behind bars.

Please send this arti­cle to every­one you know espe­cially your politi­cians and demand that this be cor­rected. If they don’t respond and take action start send­ing them all your used motor oil and this arti­cle so they have instruc­tions on how to clean it up.

Kevin Daum is the Founder of Save the Oceans Inc. He devel­oped and patented a process for remov­ing oil from sur­faces so it could be recy­cled as well as sev­eral other inven­tions. He has for­mu­lated mul­ti­ple eco-certified clean­ers for clean­ing every­thing from air­planes to ships, graf­fiti and your laun­dry. He has also authored numer­ous insight­ful arti­cles and book­lets such as “How to Kill your Clean­ing Staff” a really green guide to clean­ing. His web site is www.OilLift.net

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