[BITList] no mention!

Thu Jan 13 05:32:52 GMT 2011

hugh

I can’t believe there is no mention of kevin costners magic centrifuges......................!
however I did come across more info about them – see below this article................
$52,000,000 for 32 of the magic machines! [unbelievable!]
nice work if you can get it [and where are they now?]

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Berms and boom were largely ineffective responses to oil spill, panel reports
Published: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 9:30 PM 
 By Jonathan Tilove 
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About of a third of the way through the National Oil Spill Commission's 400-page report, there is a 43-page chapter on the oil spill response and containment efforts that suggests that berms and boom were pretty much a bust, collecting more headlines than oil.

View full sizeTed Jackson, The Times-Picayune archiveWorkers lay a double line of protection as a brown pelican flies near an island in eastern Barataria Bay on May 24. 
Along the way, the report also casts a rather unflattering light on Louisiana officialdom, singling out Gov. Bobby Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser.

Garret Graves, Gov. Jindal's top adviser on coastal issues, said Wednesday that the contempt displayed by Washington for the "Cajun ingenuity that was the real saving grace in this disaster" was itself contemptible, and factually incorrect in every particular.

The portrait painted in Chapter 5 is of a region, and especially a state, under siege from the worst oil spill in American history, frustrated by repeated failed attempts by BP to cap the well, and by what it considered an inadequate federal cleanup response, clamoring for fixes that may have done little to contribute - and may have in some instances undermined -- the response effort.

According to the commission's narrative, the festering animosity in Louisiana's relationship with Washington was nurtured by a news media that thrives on conflict. 

Stephen Baldwin sues Costner over BP centrifuge 
December 23, 2010 - 2:25pm

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2009 file photo, actor Stephen Baldwin arrives at the premiere of "The Pink Panther 2" at the Ziegfeld Theatre. Baldwin is suing Kevin Costner over their investments in a device that BP used to try to clean up the massive Gulf oil spill. A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010 in New Orleans by Baldwin and a friend claims Costner and a business partner duped them out of their shares of an $18 million deal for BP to buy oil-separating centrifuges from a company they formed after the April 20 spill. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer, File) By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN 
Associated Press 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Stephen Baldwin has sued fellow actor Kevin Costner over their investments in a device that BP used in trying to clean up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The federal lawsuit filed in New Orleans on Wednesday by Baldwin and a friend claims Costner and a business partner duped them out of their shares of an $18 million deal for BP to purchase oil-separating centrifuges from a company they formed after the April 20 spill.

BP ordered 32 of the centrifuges, which separate oil from water, and deployed a few of the devices on a barge in June. BP capped the well in July and kept any more oil from leaking until the seafloor gusher was permanently sealed in September.

Costner's publicist, Arnold Robinson, declined to comment Thursday on the suit's allegations.

Baldwin and his friend, Spyridon Contogouris, owned shares in Ocean Therapy Solutions, the company that marketed the centrifuges to BP.

But Baldwin and his friend claim they were deliberately excluded from a June 8 meeting between Costner, his business partner Patrick Smith and a BP executive, Doug Suttles. At the meeting, the suit says, Suttles agreed to make a $18 million deposit on a $52 million order for the 32 devices.

Baldwin and Contogouris said they didn't know about the deal when, three days later, they agreed to sell their shares of the company for $1.4 million and $500,000, respectively.

Baldwin and his friend say they were entitled to shares of BP's deposit. Instead, their suit claims Costner and Smith "schemed" to use money from BP's deposit to buy their shares in the company.

"This action effectively robbed plaintiffs of a distribution that otherwise would have been payable to plaintiffs," says the suit, which seeks unspecified damages.

Costner and Suttles visited Port Fourchon in June to talk about the plan to use the centrifuges.

"It was designed to give us a fighting chance, to fight back the oil before it got us by the throat," Costner said at the time.