Synergy Environmental | BP Oil Spill Clean-Up with Peat Moss Absorbent

http://www.Synegy-Environmental.com - (954)309-3656 - Ana McGroarty of Synergy Environmental is interviewed about a biodegradable peat moss oil absorbent that literally encapsulates oil but will not absorb water.

The BP oil company recently ordered two truckloads of this hydrophilic oil absorbent for use in the cleanup of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Also on this list of organizations utilizing these peat moss absorbent is GreenPeace who has ordered a number of large bags which they plan to use to protect a cove area from the oil slick, keeping it clean and safe for the dolphins who inhabit it and will retreat their when the oil spill arrives.

Ana McGroarty also shared with reporter Bianca Spinosa of Newsplex approval and recommendation letters issued directly to Synergy Environmental for this product from agencies like:

The United States EPA (signed: William Nichols, EPA Oil Center Program [5203G]) (read here:http://synergy-environmental.com/images/letters/epa.jpg)

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (signed: Rick Ruscito P.E., Bureau of Petroleum Storage Systems) (read here: http://synergy-environmental.com/images/letters/dep.jpg)

U.S. Department of Commerce (signed: Liesel Duhon, Director; Llona Shtrom, Senior Program Officer; Erin Crouch, Program Officer) (read here: http://synergy-environmental.com/images/letters/usdoc.jpg)

Miami Dade County (signed: Lee S. Casey, Chief, Environmental Compliance Division) (read here: http://synergy-environmental.com/images/letters/dswm.jpg)

Broward County's Emerald Award (signed: Steve Somerville, Director of the Department of Planning and Environmental Protection) (read here: http://synergy-environmental.com/images/letters/bcea.jpg)

Along with other approvals that can be found on Synergy Environmental's website (http://www.Synergy-Environmental.com).

Subtitles From the Charlottesville Newsplex:

"The oil mess along the gulf coast now has a Nelson County connection in the cleanup solution.

A firm from Afton has successfully helped lobby BP to use peat to clean up the oil washing ashore on the wetlands in Louisiana and Florida.

"The first two truckloads are going down," says Ana Mariza McGroarty of Synergy Environmental.

That's 780 bags of Canadian peat, headed to Louisiana to clean up with the oil.

"It has been incredible," says McGroarty. "People have been pulling together...reaching out however they can."

The gulf oil has made its way to Pensacola, Florida. A woman in Florida is using the Synergy product there.

"Greenpeace actually came in because we're selling to Greenpeace, and they purchased bags for her. They are going to start laying this [peat] in the cove area to try to save the dolphins."

Once the peat absorbs the oil it becomes a kind of fertilizer. It breaks down the oil, so that you can grow seeds in it. One of the benefits of peat is that it doesn't create any chemical side effects or harm the wildlife and birds that live in the wetlands.

"They can go in there, and still be in their nest, and it won't hurt them," says McGroarty.

It's all about making lemonade out of lemons, or in this case fertilizer out of oil."

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Science & Technology

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• peat moss
• biodegrade oil
• oil absorbent
• chemical absorbent
• natural absorbent
• organic absorbent
• oil spill recovery
• soil remediation
• wet lands
• bp oil spill
• greenpeace
• deepwater horizon
• epa
• william nichols
• rick ruscito
• us department fo commerce
• liesel duhon
• eric crouch
• llona shtrom
• miami dade
• lee casey
• broward county
• steve somerville

[SynergyEnvironmental]

tmorant, thats because this type of PROPERLY dehydrated peat, becomes hydrophobic and aBsorbs the oil and while the oil is encapsulated in the peat moss, it is biodegraded, by an enzyme created by the humic acid naturally found in this type of peat moss and the microbes naturally found in the environment of the spill. It has been used over and over again for bioremediation of contaminated soil, I lots of results. I have done this for 10 years now. thank you for the request for clarification.

[davidconjefferson]

Wonderful! I ultimately believe as a scientist, the most logical cure to solve ALL oil spill crises, present and future, we will need to modify and/or create and breed a new aquatic species or fish which is safely capable of consuming and digesting petroleum directly from their immediate aquatic environment and eliminating it through their digestive processes. This will not be easy to accomplish, but with the diversity of aquatic specimen in totality we have to work with it may possibly be done.

[allusionify]

google

petroleum remediation product

[tmorant]

take the oil that kills off the water and then put it in the ground? sounds a little to easy.

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