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Old 07-21-2010, 03:17 PM
 
Location: NJ/FL
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Old 07-21-2010, 05:24 PM
 
Location: on the edge of Sanity
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Today when I looked at the news online, there were horrific, disturbing pictures of a firefighter who died after being submerged in oil after a pipeline exploded in China. I'm having trouble expressing words that are stuck in my head. I mean, CNN shows an image of a pelican covered in oil and everyone cries. Many of us can't stomach looking at the wildlife covered in the sticky goo. But right on the front page of Yahoo news is a photo of a human being drenched in oil after a spill in China. It just seems to me that we can stare at horrors happening in other countries, but not right here in our own backyard. It's sort of like watching the children eating from garbage cans in some third world country and shaking our heads with sorrow when Americans are going hungry every day. I guess when something disturbing is far away, it's not as real to us?

What I'm trying to say is that these terrible, environmental disasters aren't new to our planet. Over 100 workers were killed when a Shell rig blew back in 2008 in Nigeria. But we continued to scream for more oil, more off-shore drilling. In fact, after the BP spill, some posters on CD & other sites wrote they were going to fill up at the Shell station down the road to protest.

On Monday when some headlines announced that the leak had been successfully plugged, I wondered if we'll soon begin to forget what happened on April 20, 2010 and it will be business as usual, that is, fill 'er up and damn the planet.

Warning, this is the photo of the firefighter

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/China-oil-spill-grows-official-warns-evere-threat/ss/events/wl/071910chinaoil#photoViewer=/100720/481/urn_publicid_ap_org7ca0d12b98fd49039624c96846e7329 a"]China oil spill grows, official warns of 'severe threat' - Yahoo! News Photos[/URL]
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Old 07-21-2010, 08:13 PM
 
Location: North Central Florida
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Those chinese are pikers! Their slick is only 165 sq miles. We got them beat big time.

Pretty ironic that we stop dumping oil, and they start on the other side of the planet. The oceans just cant catch a break lately.

YC.......
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Old 07-21-2010, 10:53 PM
 
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Hey,There oil spill has to be smaller than ours.Because, They just passed us up by the amount of oil they burn in a year to run there cars.
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Old 04-01-2011, 12:04 PM
 
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Bp finds solution to Gulf spill, OSE II

Bp to start implementing OSE II


Testing of OSE II by Dr. Tsao of British Petroleum
David Tsao, Ph.D
BioChem Strike Team Leader; Deepwater Horizon


Regarding the Effectiveness of OSE II Remediating Oil from Deepwater Horizon, Blow Out, Gulf of Mexico
The major oil company British Petroleum tested OSEI Corporation’s product called Oil Spill Eater II (OSE II) at Louisiana State University from November 2010 through January 2011. Relevant sections of BP’s BCST (Bio Chem Strike Team) test results and summary “interim report” are attached.
British Petroleum formed a group named the Bio Chem Strike Team (BCST). Under the direction of Dr. Tsao, BCST was established in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident by the Alternative Response Technology (ART) program. The BCST consisted of experts from BP, LSU, LDEQ (Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality), USCG (U.S. Coast Guard), OSPR (California), SCAT, and highly experienced oil spill response consultants. Furthermore, BCST operated in conjunction with advice from EPA and NOAA.
OSE II was then slated for testing and the tests were started in November of 2010, and concluded in January of 2011. The tests were very thorough and measured several pertinent aspects in regards to remediating hydrocarbons/oil. The tests were conducted with Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometry EPA test procedures. Bacteria counts, as well as dissolved oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorous levels were measured, and PAH and Alkane degradation was quantified.
The results from the tests of OSE II were excellent and demonstrated the statements we have made to BP regarding the effectiveness of the product as being factual.
OSE II showed a great ability in the closed laboratory test to be able to remediate PAH’s, as well as the Alkanes. In fact, by the conclusion of the testing time frame, OSE II had remediated 80% of both components of the oil released by BP which ended up in Bay Jimmy, Louisiana.
This test by a major oil company is the second major testing of OSE II on two of the largest spills on water in the history of planet Earth caused by Man. Exxon tested OSE II in 1989 at Florham Park, New Jersey and discovered OSE II was the most effective product in the world by a factor of better than 90% on the North Slope Alaskan Crude oil from the Valdez spill.
BP has now successfully tested OSE II on their spill in the Gulf of Mexico which is estimated, at this time, to be over 6,000,000 gallons of oil spilled.
Dr. Tsao wrote in his report “After nearly one year since the Deepwater Horizon spill, residual weathered oil remains in many locations. The need for a field trial to establish operational criteria for final bioremediation work plans should be initiated before early Spring 2011.”
The OSEI Corporation has alerted BP that, after over 16,000 spill clean ups in the past 21½ years, the logistics in regard to the successful application of OSE II were worked out some time ago.
The remediation of the PAH’s also verifies that OSE II is an extremely effective first response bioremediation product, and has among its many benefits:
) causes the oil to float which limits the negative toxic impact to the water column or ocean floor of the oil and dispersant
) the reduction of the adhesion properties so the oil cannot stick to birds, grass, rock or sand on shorelines
) the elimination of fire hazard
) proven non-toxic by the numerous formal toxicity tests, the fact that you can safely wash your hands with it, and the TV news program in which Retired Rear Admiral Lively drank some of it
) Boom deployment actually works and can help since OSE II causes oil to float
) OSE II causes the oil to float, because of the method in which it goes to work on the oil, it is still very difficult to see
) defined end point of turning the oil into water and CO2
The above clearly demonstrate that it is the best and only needed oil spill response and that it will, even at this late date, remediate both fresh and weathered oil and dispersant currently in the Gulf.


David Tsao, Ph.D
BioChem Strike Team Leader; Deepwater Horizon
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Old 04-01-2011, 12:05 PM
 
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Coast Guard told to take action with OSE II from Headquarters
U. S. Department
of Homeland Security
United States
Coast Guard

Commanding Officer 1 Chelsea Street
U. S. Coast Guard New London, CT 06320
Research and Development Center Staff Symbol: Contracting Office
Phone: (860) 271-2807

July 10, 2010

OSEI Corporation
P.O. Box 515429
Dallas, TX 75251

Attn: Steven Pedigo, President/Owner

DEEPWATER HORIZON RESPONSE BAA HSCG32-10-R-R00019, TRACKING #2003954

We are pleased to inform you that the initial screening of your White Paper submitted under Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) HSCG32-10-R-R00019 has been completed. It has been determined that your White Paper submission has a potential for benefit to the spill response effort.

Your White Paper has been forwarded to the Deepwater Horizon Response Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC) for further action under its authority. Subject to the constraints and needs of the ongoing oil spill response, you may be contacted by the FOSC or the responsible party.


We appreciate your interest in supporting the Deepwater Horizon Response effort.


Contracting Officer /s/
USCG R&D Center
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Old 04-01-2011, 09:14 PM
 
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Is this a lawyer enriching programme or something that genuinely compensates people who have had their incomes negated by the gulf oil spill?

In any event, who is gonna pay the compensation claims from Iraq and Afghanistan?
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