How the Saudi's cleaned up their own 800M gallon oil spill.

paparush

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Thu May-20-10 09:04 PM
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How the Saudi's cleaned up their own 800M gallon oil spill.

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According to Pozzi, that mishap, kept under wraps for close to two decades and first reported by Esquire, dumped nearly 800 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf, which would make it more than 70 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill.

But remarkably, by employing a fleet of empty supertankers to suck crude off the water's surface, Pozzi's team was not only able to clean up the spill, but also salvage 85 percent of the oil, he says.
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http://www.aolnews.com/nation/article/could-cleanup-fix-for-gulf-oil-spill-lie-in-secret-saudi-disaster/19476863

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BrklynLiberal

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Thu May-20-10 09:07 PM
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1. I guess where there is a will, there is a way......

Edited on Thu May-20-10 09:25 PM by BrklynLiberal

Guess the first thing that was missing here was the will.

Maybe Pozzi needs to call the BP Hotline with his suggestion...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8377008&mesg_id=8377111

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polichick

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Thu May-20-10 09:37 PM
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2. "No one's listening" - I've heard that Aramco has...

Edited on Thu May-20-10 09:40 PM by polichick

...offered to help - hope somebody is listening to them.

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paparush

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Fri May-21-10 08:12 AM
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3. Friday Morning Kick

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ashling

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Fri May-21-10 08:48 AM
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4. Favorite line

"We just want them to get off their ass and use multiple solutions to clean this crap."

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