Hey Carl in Alabama

Dwight Harley

Dwight Harley

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What is the latest with the oil spill down your way? Any shown up off the Bama coast or in Mobile Bay? I love that country down there and this just makes me sick. I recall that you are in the resource management biz and I am sure it is just an awful thing for you to watch. BP truly seems to have their thumb inserted firmly up their ass.
 
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Basically, in Alabama, we have no on-shore impact from the oil, yet. A few tarballs have washed up and most of those are from other sources.
Finding some dead sea turtles and oiled birds that have floated in.
But we have had no oil or even sheen in our water up to this point.

All Alabama beaches are open for business, the weather is great, water is warm and the fish are biting. Come on down.

The media is really doing the central Gulf coast a dis-service by making it sound like the whole coast is coated in oil. The only place with real onshore impacts is Louisiana. Its a mess down there, and going to get worse. But in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, the beaches are fine.

We are still deploying lots of boom, making plans to react to any oil reaching here and all us natural resource people are on perpetual stand-by. Sort of like a slow motion train wreck but your not real sure when or where the train will actually de-rail. The worst impact for me to date is that it killed my trip to WI to pick up my "new" boat. So, no boat for me this summer.
 
Every tom, dick & harry with an idea to soak up oil has come out of the woods.
Will some of it work? Maybe, but probably not on the scale we're looking at but who knows.

But if they didnt bother getting their technology submitted and approved by the Regional Response Teams when they first "invented" it, its not on the approved list of response materials or techniques.

And odd are if they are not on the approved list, there is a good reason for that: if it really is a viable solution, someone else already has a patent on it & it is on the list or they are a quack-job looking to make money.

Sorry to be cynical, but I've already gotten my share of calls from people like this. My response is: Call BP, they are the responsible party.
 
Carl,
Thanks for your reply. Glad to hear that there has been no impact on the Alabama coast. I hope the blown well gets sealed soon.
 
Carl I saw a video from the state of Texas. Some dept. Where they used oil eating organisms to clean up a oil spill. They sprayed it on the Marsh, a powder with fire hoses. It cleaned it up completely. They compared it with cleaning the conventional way and a uncleaned area. The nice part of it when the organisms had finished eating the oil they died off. This was done in the 70's or 80's
 
Its funny, cause everytime there is a spill someone "invents" the idea of using bacteria to eat the oil!
Yep, lots of oil eating bacteria out there, some are always present in the natural environment. And others are used a bio-remediation.
 
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