Kevin Costner’s oil cleanup machines being used to save the Gulf

BP signed the deal last week in its attempt to clean gulf from the oil spill problem. The company will be taking advantage of these machines for the next 60 days.

While addressing reporters at the Port Fourchon, an oil industry supply port in southern Louisiana, Costner said, "At its core, my dream, this machine, was designed...to give us a fighting chance to fight back the oil that's got us by the throat. When you are in a fight, anybody knows you go to confront it right where it is. You don't wait for it to come to your door.”

However, neither BP nor Costner revealed the financial aspect of the deal.

Kevin blames bureaucratic red tape for delayed action
Kevin Costner last week stated that he had invested over $20 million in the centrifuge development and tried for past 17 years to employ the technology designed by his company.

But his efforts were always blocked by the bureaucratic red tape.

BP signed the deal last week in its attempt to clean gulf from the oil spill problem. The company will be taking advantage of these machines for the next 60 days.

"The whole world is watching as America fumbles its way through the greatest environmental disaster in history. I believe there are other small companies out there in the private sector just like us. You should know that negotiating your way through the bureaucratic maze that currently exists is like trying to play a video game that nobody can master," told Costner to the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship at a hearing on Thursday in Washington.

Costner had recently revealed at the 'Good Morning America' show that 1989’s Exxon Valdez oil spill had inspired him to build a system that will effectively clean the oil from water.

BP CEO holidaying
While US is busy searching for solutions to combat the worst oil spill in the history, BP’s CEO Tony Hayward, reportedly, on Saturday, attended a glitzy yacht race off the Isle of Wight.

However, BP spokesman Robert Wine rubbished reports that Hayward does not care about the oil spill and is enjoying a luxurious holiday by attending the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race.

"He's continuing to work hard. You don't have to be physically in a location to remain in charge of the response. At some point in the near future, he'll be back in the U.S.," said Wine in Hayward’s defense.