Comments for La. AG making case for contingency contracts at http://www.theind.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.theind.com Tue, 21 May 2013 04:12:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6330-la-ag-making-case-for-contingency-contracts#comment-18299 I helped a company build the business computer system years ago and have followed their progress. The firm is BioWorldUSA.com and they have a next generation bioremediation technology that is ready for large scale application in the water, marsh, beach, rocks, docks, boats and other surfaces. I looked them up on the EPA list - #B59. They have 97% degradation in less than 28 days of testing but the projects they did when I was working on the computers actually had the BioWorld products performing even better in large projects than in the lab tests. I spoke with someone there last week and they cannot believe that BP or EPA has not begun using this newer type of bioremediation. I did see where a professor at Lawrence Berkley Labs says bioremediation did not work at the Valdez event in 1989 so it is best to do nothing in the Gulf of Mexico. I am thankful my medical doctor kept learning new technology and the pharmaceutical industry has new products to make life better and save lives. I would think the people in charge of the Gulf oil spill cleanup would want to evaluate the Best Technologies Available. It is 13 months after the start of the spill into the Gulf. I understand BioWorld has been ready and waiting for THE CALL. Is there someone that can make a wise decision to some of the bioremediation technology that has been developed after 1989 Valdez and put these companies to work? What if there are several companies that have successful cleanup products? What if the products work really well and get the job done. No one knows for sure until the products are used in 5 or 10 acres to start. From what I have read about cleanup, the bioremediation can work at 50% and be better than booms, burning, sucking, pressure washing, steam cleaning, Whale, centrifuge systems, dispersants, soaker pads, straw bales, hair and many other things tried in the Gulf. I even saw a photo of a Coast Guard Seaman wiping crude oil from blades of grass using a roll of paper towels. Bioremediation must be more efficient if someone gives it the evaluations they have earned. Anyway, I could go on forever because I have seen it work. The company is BioWorld Products Inc, Visalia California, 559-651-2042, www.BioWorldUSA.com They are a small company but I helped years ago with the plans for fasts expansion and make large amounts of products in a short time. This was back in preparation for the Prestige Spill in Spain 2002 and I was helping them. They got a small bioremediation project ($250,000 I remember for marsh) after more lab scale testing and a big report at the University of Valencia in Spain. The oil degradation was very fast. BioWorld had a distributor for other products but they were in the wrong political party in Spain for getting the big contracts. I am writing this about BioWorld because they are good, hardworking people that have great technology - just more people need to know about them. (By the way, I am not getting paid for anything at BioWorld and have not had projects for them in several years - I think 2005 or so. A concerned person, AlGli - adgli@aol.com - AlGli Thu, 02 Jun 2011 09:30:07 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6330-la-ag-making-case-for-contingency-contracts#comment-7981 THANK YOU, RAGIN CAJUN AND I WAS WONDERING WHO WOULD OPEN THAT CAN OF WORMS! In an earlier post, i did post my personal eye witness accounts of the lack and/or unprofessional oversight of the drilling activity offshore by the MMS, and prior to the MMS the USGS for the past 20 years. At the outset of the USGS overseeing the drilling activity in the 70's, the agency recruited the most capable oil industry service personal, men with close ties to the industry and a personal interest in the well-being of the industry, which had provided so well for their families. These men had may years of good service to the industry. But, as all worthwhile scenarios, it ended too soon. These men, who were very capable were doing an excellent job, but, as they began to retire, the agency began hiring every Brother-in law/or cronys of the agencys administrators, and everything went south down the toilet, actually the Bush, and Cheney, regime instigated and/or allowed this practice, along with seeing to the blockage of the superfund tax on their fellow OILMAN CRONYS. Now this is a fact ! Anyone who spend the last 20 years in the oilfield knows of this.......Anyone who has spend the last 50 years in the oilfield has seen a hell of a lot worse scenerio.......All in the Name of the game, " MONEY ! THANKS RAGIN CAJUN ! - HARDHAT Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:45:19 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6330-la-ag-making-case-for-contingency-contracts#comment-7973 Hardhat-- Before you read this--sit down, relax, don't throw a wrench through your computer screen--you're about to be very angry when you get through reading this. I got it all off Wikipedia, so I'm pretty sure that it's all correct. Superfund like you're talking about was enacted by federal law in the early 80's. It makes companies pay for cleanup of hazardous waste. If responsible company can't pay or can't be found, then the cost of the clean-up is borne by the federal government. Feds pay out of a "superfund", which is a trust fund. Money goes into that fund from a tax levied on the petroleum and chemical industries. Exactly what you're saying should be done, has been done. Get ready to get mad....The Federal Treasury has not collected that tax since 1995. In 1996 there was $6 Billion in the fund, in 2003 there was no money in it. Since then, Congress has just been "appropriating revenues" out of "general revenues", whatever in the hell that means. The trust fund is broke. The government levied a tax, then just quit doing what it was supposed to do. They created a reasonable regulatory scheme for offshore oil drilling (MMS), then just let it all crumble. They created reasonable financial industry rules and regulatory schemes, then repealed Glass-Steigel, let the SEC do nothing, let it all crumble. But don't worry, they'll do a much better job with the nation's health insurance. You'll get your Social Security check. and everything will be just fine. Just send your money to Washington, and your kids to whatever war they wage, and you'll die old and comfortable--just trust them. - ragin_cajun Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:23:36 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6330-la-ag-making-case-for-contingency-contracts#comment-7954 I Noticed Louisiana depends on natural and man made disater funding from the gum't when it is convienient to balance budgets. And, critizes the gum't to get votes. We are the Haiti of North America!! - I Noticed Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:16:55 +0100 http://www.theind.com/news/indreporter/6330-la-ag-making-case-for-contingency-contracts#comment-7949 Whatever happened to " The United States Of America, isn't this why louisiana's pay Federal Taxes, and have we no Federal Attorneys with the expertise to take on BP " ? Just as Companies have to pay Workmens Compensation Insurance, to protect their employees, the Oil Operators should have an on-growing Environmental Super fund, to protect " OUR ENVIRONMENT ". Believe me, its not like this is not going to occur again, and again ! This should be mandatory, a legislation by our "FATCAT, (PAID IN FULL) legislators enacting a law requiring an input of money to maintain a Super Fund by every Oil Operator prior to the start-up of drilling an inland well, or/and any well off the shores of the United States, out to the boundary of America's territorial waters.....This is certainly not unrealistic, considering the " Exxon-Valdez spill and this " BRITISH PETROLEUM. " Fiasco ! - HARDHAT Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:46:51 +0100