Coast Guard Forms Panel for Ideas to Mop Up Oil Spill
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The U.S. Coast Guard is creating a panel to look into proposed technologies and products to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, concerned that BP Plc’s multistage suggestion box system isn’t working.
The new group will evaluate ideas that deal with detecting oil in the ocean, cleaning it up and restoring the environment, said Commander Howard Wright, a Coast Guard spokesman. The panel will be independent of BP’s online efforts to assess ideas. The spill is leaking an estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf each day, a government panel said.