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After the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, Costner wanted to find a new way to separate oil from water, so he acquired the company. He found it difficult to promote its products, until BP placed an order for several of the company's devices in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. [2] [3]
Stephen Baldwin has sued fellow actor Kevin Costner over investments in a technology that BP used to help clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The two actors, among ...
These include his Costner oil and water separation technology, which was used to help clean up the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, as well as his investment in Autio, a ...
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades , including two Academy Awards , three Golden Globe Awards , and a Primetime Emmy Award .
Well, the 67-year-old exclusively tells Entertainment Weekly she would've found out if she'd taken up Kevin Costner's offer to join the cast of his infamous 1995 post-apocalyptic aquatic action ...
They worked toward removing oil and tar from beaches and offshore surrounding areas, creating boarders around the spill to keep the surface oil from spreading, using sorbents to absorb the oil, and burning the oil away. One study estimated that 5 to 6 percent of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill was burned into the atmosphere.
To break up oil, roughly 1.8 million gallons of Corexit were dropped from planes and sprayed from boats — far more than previous U.S. oil spills. The manufacturer said it was safer than dish soap.
A study of 247 BP oil spill clean-up workers released in September 2013 by the American Journal of Medicine showed the workers were at an increased risk of developing cancer, leukemia and other illnesses. The study concluded that "clean-up workers exposed to the oil spill and dispersant experienced significantly altered blood profiles, liver ...