Deep Water Horizon has actually set up a website to take suggestions such as yours. Click on the suggestion button to the right at: http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/ Article about it here.... Oil Spill Suggestion Box? BP is Taking Your Ideas http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2010/05/oil-spill-suggestion-box-bp-is-taking-your-ideas/comments/page/7/ Jackie skimmer wrote: >While raking cut grass in the front yard, I got to thinking about protecting >the marshes from the oil that will continue to come ashore for the coming >months. The sand berms being constructed have the disadvantage of changing >the normal water ecology of the marshes. > > > >Less damage might occur if they laid down a "bio-berm" of straw bales, hay >bales or any cut field growth that would rapidly absorb/enmesh the oil blobs >being driven into the marshes. > > > >Such a "bio-berm" should be fairly easy to collect and remove in the >future. This could end up being a new oil recovery industry in the region to >replace or supplement fishing/shrimping. We would call this BP-supported >process "berm-shaving". It would help rehabilitate BP's reputation and be >known as the BP- BS answer to the oil spill crisis. > > > >Chuck Sutherland *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue May 25 2010 - 10:08:48 PDT
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