it turns out, an important detail, bp does not do that research itself. they admit that. a spokesman for bp telling the associated press that bp does not research oil spill cleanup technology. instead, he said bp supports oil spill response organizations, such as the nonprofit marine spill response corporation. okay. so bp doesn t do spill response research themselves. they have the marine spill response corporation do it for them. and now here s the part that you should tell all your friends at work tomorrow, or at school tomorrow or wake somebody up and tell them tonight. bp doesn t do spill response research themselves, they have the marine spill response corporation do it for them. the budget for oil spill response research at the marine spill response corporation? is zero. a spokesperson for the organization told usa today they have no budget for research. that same spokesperson confirmed to us today, quote, the marine spill response corporation is an operational company, not a re
water off the coast of louisiana. what does bp spend on researching how to clean up an oil spill, how to clean up a really bad underwater oil spill. turns out bp does not do that research itself. they admit that. a spokesman for bp telling the associated press that bp does not research oil spill cleanup technology. instead he says bp supports oil spill response organizations such as the nonprofit oil spill response corporation. so bp doesn t do response research themselves. they have the corporation do it for them. now here s the part you should tell all of your friends at work tomorrow or at school tomorrow or wake somebody up and tell them tonight. bp doesn t do spill response research themselves, they have the marine spill response corporation do it for them. the budget for oil spill response research at the marine spill response corporation is zero. a spokesperson for the organization told usa today they have no budget for research.
is that the case? well, what s in actuality bp, like a lot of the oil companies have actually shielded themselves from the actual great majority of the cleanup process and refer it over to what is called. oil spill response organizations and those oil spill response organizations make the decisions about what kind of technologies are being used and how they re being used. obviously, this doesn t relate to the capping of the pipe, but in the cleanup process they really turn that over to third party, who are motivated based on their agendas to clean up the spill the way they see fit and no oversight by bp or other companies to the best of our knowledge and certainly wasn t been the indicates for many, many years as we attempted to pursue this market for a long time. you went out to the oil industry with the technology you developed and what s interesting about this smart sponge technology is that it would absorb all of this oil. we re going to show our audience in a second. i want t
spokesperson, we re doing everything we can do. we ve mounted the largest response ever in the world here, we ve already spent over 450 million dollars. we re throwing every resource required at this problem and i think, i d just ask people to judge us on what we re doing. we re not talking about limits on liability, we are he talking about doing what needs to be donements you heard that, glenn, we re doing everything that we can possibly do. is that a lie? i would say that they probably are doing everything at that they feel they can do and i believe that they re probably outsourcing majority of the cleanup work because they don t have the infrastructure to do that. and the majority of the those companies that are in fact doing that type of cleanup work have their own private agenda and that is not necessarily to bring in new technology. and that s why private industry has really not been motivate today try to bring about positive change, entrepreneurs, inventors and things of th