July 6th, 2010 
jbtutt1e I can see the congressional hearings now. The speaker asks the BP executive in the hot seat,
“Were you aware that a natural solution existed that could have literally “dissolved” the oil before it reached the shore during the early stage of the oil spill”.
Executive replies
“No sir, we were not aware of all of the wonders of bioremediation until after we had destroyed the majority of the marine life in the Gulf of Mexico and millions of coastal residents had lost the homes and businesses.”
BULL CORN!
Just for the record, BP spent over 400 million doing bioremediation research in their own company in 2005 and it is believed that similar sums were spent in recent years.
BP had even used both microbes and enzymes to bioremediate over a dozen spills they had caused in other areas around the world.
Finally, and the most damning evidence that BP knows it is destroying the Gulf is that their executives had witnessed over a half a dozen demonstrations of either oil eating microbes or enzymes degrading the oil is just days—making it virtually harmless just hours after treatment to wildlife and marine life.
Today as I write this, the surface slick is now 1/3 the size of the Gulf (don’t get me started about how much more actual oil is subsurface). When BP first reviewed these natural solutions, there was only about 1/20th of the Gulf affected.
Today, the war still wages. There is no longer a question about whether bioremediation works…the question is: will the Federal Government force BP to allow the Parishes and Counties along the Gulf to use bioremediation to save what is left of the sensitive environments and life…or is it going to sit by and watch as BP’s idiocy kills the rest of the Gulf of Mexico.
Please contact SpillFighters.com if you want to know how you can help influence the Government and PB to adopt the natural oil eating bacteria or enzyme approach to save our Gulf of Mexico.
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my name is Pascal, i live in northern california and i would love to help in any way possible….. please let me know what i can do…..
Hi Brent:
I previously corresponded with you on June 18th after seeing your video on You Tube and seeing some local Sarasota FL news on bioremediaition. I’ve since corresponded with many elected officials including the Spill Commission’s website.
What’s the problem with bioremediation? do you have any clues about what’s going on to prevent it’s use?
Bob
Below is what I sent the Spill Commission today:
WHY ISN’T BIOREMEDIATION BEING USED AS AN EXTENSIVE CLEAN-UP TOOL?
Bioremediation has been proven and is extant as a viable method for remediating oil spills for over 20 years. Why are we still allowing the use of toxic dispersants and resorting to physical collection of the spilled oil?
Watch the video posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIDTYbks4o to see how Texas dealt with a previous major spill using bioremediation. Also check out a NASA-developed product call PRP a bio-product that fosters the growth of the oil-eating microbes.
I have corresponded with BP oversight incident command, the governors of the Gulf States, the US Senators for those states, President Obama, and the Florida Environmental department regarding the use of bioremediation to clean-up the spill, but have received no response. More importantly, I have neither read of nor heard of any major push to use bioremediation to clean-up the spill when bioremediation is a proven technology.
Here’s what I sent to all these people:
I am appalled at the current and fearful of the future impact of the oil being released into the environment and its lasting long-term effects. My niece lives on the East shore of Prince William Sound in Alaska, and the oil from the Exxon Valdez spill is still in the environment and just under the surface of the beaches in the Sound. The physical efforts of skimming, pumping, burning, and washing are complex and inefficient in getting all the spilled oil. I also know that the side effects on the workers can be significant in using physical and toxic chemical remediation. There are still diseases, illness, and deaths among those people who helped clean up the Exxon Valdez spill. I can easily project this result onto cleanup workers on the Gulf Coast.
Because of some recent local news reports, I have become aware of a product called Munox made by Osprey Biotechnics of Sarasota FL. A 55-gallon drum of Munox can treat 36 square miles of spilled oil. Probably other companies make similar bio products that can effectively and safely consume the oil spilled into the Gulf. Munox can be a major tool in dealing with the spill. It already has EPA approval. The use of biotech solutions and the subsequent rapid remediation results would gain political and public perception value for an environmentally and technically elegant solution to the spill. The economic impact would be huge. There would be savings in lower cost solutions and a reduced economic disaster for the Gulf and national economies.
Please take steps to collaborate with the Governors of the Gulf States, the federal government and BP to make bioremediation the primary tool in cleaning up the oil spill.
The following links explain more about Munox and bioremediation:
Osprey Biotechnics. http://www.ospreybiotechnics.com/ for information on the Munox product
Watch the video posted on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrIDTYbks4o to see how Texas dealt with a previous major spill using bioremediation.
Thank you,
Bob Volpe
3573 Huntington Place Dr.
Sarasota FL 34237
585-301-5579
What’s holding up this simple solution to a devastating problem? Let’s act now!