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BP Oil Spill Capped (For Now), Here’s How to Clean Up the Oil
July 16th, 2010 · by Ken Rohla · Filed Under: Water
One of the reasons I continue to be hopeful about the future of our planet and its people is that I have seen and worked with solutions for many of the problems that we are creating: pollution, toxic energy production, our disconnect from nature and ourselves, the triple evils that Martin Luther King spoke of: war, poverty, and racism, etc.
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is yet another example. There have been microbe techologies around for decades that can remediate polluted water, including eating oil. Teruo Higa, agriculture professor from Okinawa, Japan, for example, created “Effective Microorganisms” or “EM” that can remediate polluted water, and has many other uses. Oppenheimer Biotech has a microbe mixture they have developed that can eat oil and break it down into nontoxic FISH FOOD, in minutes! In the early 1990s this Texas company was supported by Texas land commissioner Garry Mauro and Texas Water Commissioner Buck Wynn III, who in an effort to supplement the federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990, got the Texas legislature to pass the 1991 Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act (OSPRA) to protect Texas’s coastal waters, natural resources, and marine life from the 900+ oil spills that occur each year there. Say what?! Nine hundred Texas oil spills per year?! Why isn’t that reported on the mainstream media? The act created oil disaster response teams stationed on the coast of Texas to quickly bioremediate any offshore oil spills. Why has this not been done for the BP oil spill, and why is Oppenheimer Biotech and other companies like it, such as Teraganix, SCD Probiotics, Natural Plus Plus, and Teruo Higa’s company, EMRO, not on the forefront of BP oil spill the news?
As you can see in this amazing video, it’s not because the technology is untried or ineffective. These microbes can eat vast amounts of oil in minutes. A large oil spill can be cleaned up in a few weeks with no toxic side effects. BP claims there is no better alternative to the extremely toxic “dispersant” Corexit 9500 it is using (and in which it has a financial interest). Yet, clearly bioremediation has been brought to their attention via Mauro, Wynn, and Oppenheimer’s efforts. Mauro went on to write a book about his experience, Beaches, Bureaucrats, and Big Oil: One Man’s Fight for Texas. Check out the video below!
— Ken Rohla
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Great video. I saw it initially on You Tube. The question I have and many others are also asking is, why aren’t these oil eating microbes being used/deployed in the B.P. spill to eat up and clean up the oil in the wetlands, marshes, as well as in the Gulf ocean? We get it that B.P. is fighting to keep any and all scientist from calibrating how much oil they have actually spilled into the Gulf, because B.P. will be fined per gallons/barrels they have spilled into the Gulf but why not use nontoxic technology, such as these oil eating microbes now? In watching many You Tube videos about the spill, the one theme and question appears to dominate, “What’s really going on and why aren’t viable cleanup modalities being used and deployed to the Gulf?” It’s obvious it’s going to take us, we the people, to demand the answers, if we unite and speak as one voice. My friend, who I met after she had also emailed and called Francois Vorster, Managing Director of Super Suck International, after seeing him on The Dylan Ratigan Show, where he stated his company can suck up all of the oil, filter it and return 90 to 85% of the now clean and oxygen filled water back into the Gulf and send the oil to a refinery, said he sent his plan to B.P. 2 days after the spill but never heard back from them, as well as never heard from our government. His company can obviously significantly help clean up the oil, and has around the world, at other oil and chemical spills, along with other modalities, such as microbes, but no one is calling these companies back, so again, I ask the question, “What’s really going on? We need to leave our political hats at the door, unite as Americans so that more action will be taken to clean up the oil in the Gulf. Right now, my fiend and I are researching what technologies are out there that are ready to go and able to clean up the surface, subsurface plumes and oil already on the ocean floor, without leaving any toxic residues. Information is power and we want to have as much info as possible before trying to get like minded people together so that our voices will be heard and our questions answered and resulting action taken.
I can’t believe it, it appears that the oil spill has halted, it is going to be very exciting to see if the pressure tests work as planned. I really hope they get this factor fully resolved as soon as achievable. I’m really fretful that there is going to be some serious backlashes later on. I feel that seafood industry will be affected for many decades to come. It can be poor sufficient how the wildlife have been impaired so severely, but I also experience that individuals will no longer be able to eat seafood with any level of assurance.
I READ ABOUT THIS RIGHT AFTER THE “SPILL” HAPPENED. I CALLED THEIR OFFICE AND TALKED TO THE PR WOMAN AND SHE SAID NO ONE HAD CONTACTED THEM ABOUT THE MICRO ORGANISM !!!
DO YOU THINK IT HAS BEEN USED? BUTTHEADS IN POWER!