Environmentally Correct Oil Spill Cleanup Solution with Hay & Straw

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In this video posted by the Walton County (FL) Sheriff's Department, Darryl Carpenter, Vice President of Florida-based CW Roberts Contracting and sub-contractor Otis Goodson, shows how hay, hay grass and straw can be used as a very effective environmentally correct oil spill cleanup solution.

In a scene reminiscent of a primetime cooking show, the Carpenter and Goodson video shows how Coastal Bermuda and Bahia hay could be scattered over the surface of the ocean with hay blowers to absorb the oil. To start, the two men pour oil into two large pans of water, stir in the hay, add a little "wave action," then skim off the oil-soaked hay.

The audience watching the Walton County video included representatives from BP (British Petroleum), the Coast Guard and the Sheriff's office. CW Roberts then asks BP and the Coast Guard for the chance to do a 10-acre live demonstration in Gulf waters. They were told that approval has to come from higher up, but can they say no to this environmentally correct oil spill cleanup solution, with just Hay and Straw?

"We work along the whole Gulf of Mexico coastal area in Florida," says CW Roberts president, Charles Roberts. "We have everything mobilized. We can have boats and equipment on the water in less than a half-day. We have been getting calls from all over, from people who want to supply the hay. We want to be given the chance to see if it works. If it works on 10-acres, then give us a bigger assignment."

CW Roberts, a 700-employee contracting firm with headquarters in Tallahassee, Florida, and offices located all along the Gulf of Mexico from Destin to Fort Meyers, is now under contract with the Walton County's Office of Emergency Management to protect their beaches from the oil spill. A major component of their protection strategy is the use of bales of hay to keep the oil spill from reaching the Walton beaches. As the oil spill moves closer to land, Roberts says: "We want to be given a chance to show that this simple strategy just might solve the problem. It's so simple that I think it scares people."

In fact, the idea of mobilizing a statewide group of hay farmers, a fleet of shrimp boat owners, and a network of 700 CW Roberts employees to solve an enviroment problem of catastrophic proportions -- that has challenged BP, the Coast Guard and the U.S. Government -- may be just the type of heroism the Gulf Coast and America needs right now.

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[TheWarrior1986]

@hkrivell

Cause there is no money in a cure! And who ever held the patent for the chemical dispersant 'Corexit' (ahem, Cheyney, ahem) wouldnt get a nice fat pay out..

[rapteye]

"Whey Hay" problem solved.

On a larger scale, this would mean to have Huge fine nets full of Hay/Straw being trailed by Boats on a routine section throughout the Gulf in the worst affected areas. Could it really be possible?

Well Done Chaps, you deserve more then just a noble Prize....

Worldwide Recognition Recommended!

[billydumont]

@Fobio4004 Cute tactic - And though it just might work....there is no money in the cure

[datzfast]

i know how to get rid of toxic oil but if you mix it with straw getting rid of that crap is impossible

[joshjaime254]

if u hav any problems withe the oil spill DONT FUCKIN USE ANYTHIG TO DO W OIL!!!!!!!!!!

[NiftyProductionz]

Human Hair is actually much more effective, since hair has a high absorbency in capturing oil like a seagull's feathers, it'll be less ugly and efficient. The hair technique has been done already in the oceans of the Alaskan oil spill and has been cleaned through the gatherings of hair from hair salons and were placed in fiber bags to be cleaned and reused. It's smart and environmentally clean.

[PhaedraHafsa]

@hkrivell Cause the government wants something "less primitive and southern" and use chemicals that could do more damage later...

[Imperius41]

they already are doing this....it's called boons...

[RuroniKenshin12]

@undertake782 it would make it worse... lol could u imagine how much hay they would have to clean up

[undertake782]

They said the hay would make it a lot worse.