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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (75304)	5/19/2010 2:17:12 PM
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BP turns to Kevin Costner for help cleaning up oil spill news.yahoo.com Last week we noted Kevin Costner's demo tour of the Gulf Coast region to tout a machine that the actor claims can filter 99 percent of oil from 200,000 gallons of petroleum-laced water per minute. Costner helped to develop the "centrifugal processing device" — invented by a team of scientists that includes his brother — by investing millions of dollars into Ocean Therapy Solutions, the firm that markets the product. And now it looks as though his Gulf tour has won some influential takers. According to a report by Bradley Handwerger of New Orleans television station WWL, BP officials have green-lighted the device for use in their Gulf of Mexico cleanup efforts. Says Handwerger, "BP watched the machine at work this past Thursday, taking it for a test run before saying yes or no to the group." The plan is to place the device on barges; it would then take in oily water, separate out the oil and regurgitate the cleaned water back into the Gulf. — Brett Michael Dykes is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News.