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Old 05-24-2010, 10:51 AM
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How many months/years would it take to dredge enough sand to protect the entire gulf coast? Not a practical idea.
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How many months/years would it take to dredge enough sand to protect the entire gulf coast? Not a practical idea.
Agreed. By estimate, the project would cost $200 million and take four to six months to complete its first phase, adding 43 miles to extend the Chandeleur island chain off Louisiana's eastern coastline in both directions.
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I hope this makes people rethink the whole offshore drilling thing. It doesn't seem like the small amount of oil we can get this way is worth the risk.
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Althouth a great concept, Costner's machine does nothing to stop the leak. What good is it at this point to separate oil from seawater if oil continues to flow at a rate of millions of gallons a day? I don't know of any expert that has come forward with a fail safe plan to stop the leak. I just hope that the "top kill" scheduled for Wednesday will work.

I like Jindal's plan to dredge up sand to build a barrier to protect the estuaries. But again, where are the solutions on how to stop the leak?

BP and the oil industry have the expertise and intellectual capital to stop the leak. Hell, the industry as a whole, not just BP, should have an interest of shutting down this leak as soon as possible. Has Exxon, Shell, Chevron/Texaco offered any solutions to stop the leak? It would be great PR if they did.
Costner's machine is only to help with the MASSIVE cleanup after the leak is stopped, but it's loads more than BP or the government would do.

BP really needs to step up their game on fixing their fuck up, and much proactively than they are now...
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Meanwhile the actor Kevin Costner has already put millions of his own dollars into a machine that separates the oil from seawater... Why is a single person doing more than BP and the Govt. combined?

Gulf oil spill: Kevin Costner donates 'Ocean Therapy' invention to clean oil from sea; BP OK's tests
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Costner's machine is only to help with the MASSIVE cleanup after the leak is stopped, but it's loads more than BP or the government would do.

BP really needs to step up their game on fixing their fuck up, and much proactively than they are now...
actually he's got a bunch of them and the machines can clean more per minute than the well actually spills out. (97% clean the article said which is pretty good in my opinion. still need to do something about that other 3%)
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Yeah, BP could employ Costner's biggest version of it right at the leak and clean 97% of it as it comes out, which would at least give BP time to figure out a way to actually SOLVE the problem.
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fortunately the planet has enough of it's own resources
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fortunately the planet has enough of it's own resources
to repair itself? Sometimes with natural disasters.....
I've learned to watch my mouth with that! Last time I said aloud and in public that "This town needs an enema" (yes, a quote from a batman movie) guess what happened... KATRINA! That was the biggest enema New Orleans ever had in known history, and we're entering hurricane season any day now, I don't want to spraypaint the entire gulf coast with raw crude...

So Quick, for anecdotal reasons KNOCK ON WOOD!
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I believe you can relax. I'm fairly positive that you like the rest of us
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