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BP bought Kevin Costner's oil spill clean-up machines despite field test failure

2015-04-17 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: BP spent $16m (10m) on an oil spill clean-up machine pitched by actor Kevin Costner at the height of last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster even though the machines failed their initial field tests. In the week of the one-year anniversary of the capping of the well, it has emerged that the oil company gave top priority to testing the devices ahead of the 123,000 other suggestions from the public for plugging the well and scooping up more the millions of gallons of crude from deep water, marshes...

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