Yes but as waterboy222 elucidated, it's used for cleaning wildlife, not oil spills.

Unreal, Oh about 4 hours of it was on how only "weathered" "product" would be the only thing that would ever reach the beach, and it would be tarballs basically. I mean we asked very respectful SIMPLE questions, like

1. If it starts washing up on our beach who should we call???

2. Will BP provide protective gloves and eye protection (this came up after the training said WE HAD TO WEAR IT) again ??????

Every question was met with an IDON"T KNOW?? WTF your traing people to clean up your mess and you don't know where we are suppose to get the gloves you say we have to use???

It takes allot to piss me off, this BS training did it.

Damn, it is depressing as hell to read that. You would think that these clowns would at least have some BASIC plans in place for this type of thing.

Big oil company= all hype, no substance. Big goddamn freakin surprise.

After reading your original post about volunteering, I had been thinking about doing the same down here if they were offering classes.
Not anymore. Maybe I'll go make some F*CK BP signs instead.

Sounds like my kind of guy!

Maybe I'll go make some F*CK BP signs instead.


LOL and put them up for all to see on the beach where you're doing cleanup!

Holy crap.

The volume of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig may be at least 10 times higher than previously estimated, NPR has learned.

The U.S. Coast Guard has estimated that oil was gushing from a broken pipe on the Gulf floor at the rate of 5,000 barrels a day.

But sophisticated scientific analysis of seafloor video made available Wednesday by the oil company BP shows that the true figure is closer to 70,000 barrels a day, NPR's Richard Harris reports.

That means the oil spilling into the Gulf has already far exceeded the equivalent of the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska, which spilled at least 250,000 barrels of oil.

Dan Froomkin takes it even further. Most of the oil is underwater and nobody really knows where it is or where it is going.

Damn.

Very scary if true. For people that know far more about oil than myself, what would happen to oil trapped by pressure and currents? Hypothetically, if anyone has even thought about such a theory.

More bad news for La. and Ms. from the Weather Channel. Offshore winds from the SE tonight and tomorrow. Florida gets a temporary reprieve.

I am about as big of a capitolist as there is but that I think comes with a company needing to take proper precautions. When companies stand to make as much on a well as these guys do then they need to install some sort of safty back up. I get so pissed every time I see this stuff because it will take hundreds of years to fix this if it stays the way it is for much longer.

If specific organisms like Bacillus cereus aren't introduced for bioremediation, that nastiness will always be around. As for "naturally" degrading after having its density manipulated to be greater than ocean water, good luck introducing any type of natural bioremediating organisms to the subsurface globs of oil.