ABC News Again Puts Out Erroneous Information
Posted by Bill Litwin on Fri, Jun 11, 2010 @ 04:23 PM
Today Dianne Sawyer had a segment about alternative technologies for dealing with the floating oil in the gulf. After showing some new equipment for skimming oil, they talked about "solidifiers', and that although they worked, it would cost "hundreds of billions of dollars" to use this technology. That of course is nonsense and comes from a reliably unreliable source, ABC News. The use of a polymeric solidifying absorbents like PetroGuard would in fact save huge amounts of money from lower man-hour expenditures, absence of requiring sophisticated equipment to distribute the product, the ease of collecting the solidified oil, the protection of wildlife (treated oil won't pollute) and most importantly, the fact that it ACTUALLY WORKS. These facts seem to elude the media and BP as well. Watch a video demonstration of how PetroGuard really works.
Guardian Environmental Technologies offers SheenGuard blanket-booms, a product that has been in production for over 10 years. The shape of these booms and the fact that they are filled with PetroGuard makes them the ideal product to actually pick up the floating oil, not just move it around. The segments are clipped together to form a chain of any desired length. A great and proven product and one that is being totally ignored by BP and the Coast Guard. 
