Comments on: Gulf Oil Spill: Proof In The Dirty Pudding – Corexit Sweeping Oil Under the Surface http://www.protecttheocean.com/oil-spill-oil-under-surface/ As go the oceans, so goes the rest of the planet Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:36:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Therese Wade http://www.protecttheocean.com/oil-spill-oil-under-surface/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Therese Wade Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:15:55 +0000 http://www.protecttheocean.com/?p=340#comment-713 Corexit is simply keeping the oil beneath the surface of the ocean. There are more effective alternatives to this toxic chemical. Why isnt BP using them? One of the board members of Nalco (the company that makes Corexit) is Rodney F. Chase, who is a former BP board member. BP and Nalco are obviously trying to make a big business out of this environmental tragedy, rather than making any kind of morally sound effort to repair the damage that BP has caused. There needs to be a Federal level effort to demand that BP use a safer method to clean the Gulf. One of the cleanest and most effective alternatives is the use of microbes in bioremediation. Back in 1989 there was a major demonstration done in Texas (both in the lab and in the field) using microbes to clean up a very large oil spill within 6 weeks without interfering with any ecological processes. Corexit is simply keeping the oil beneath the surface of the ocean. There are more effective alternatives to this toxic chemical. Why isnt BP using them? One of the board members of Nalco (the company that makes Corexit) is Rodney F. Chase, who is a former BP board member. BP and Nalco are obviously trying to make a big business out of this environmental tragedy, rather than making any kind of morally sound effort to repair the damage that BP has caused.

There needs to be a Federal level effort to demand that BP use a safer method to clean the Gulf. One of the cleanest and most effective alternatives is the use of microbes in bioremediation.

Back in 1989 there was a major demonstration done in Texas (both in the lab and in the field) using microbes to clean up a very large oil spill within 6 weeks without interfering with any ecological processes.

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