Who Owns the Oil Spilled in the Gulf of Mexico?

With news that fisherman and others trying to protect their own waterfront areas are being arrested if they are acting without authority from BP, on charges of stealing oil, it is worth asking the question "Who really owns the oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico?

Currently BP is asserting ownership of the oil. Yet I believe that a storng case could be made in a court, or a congressional action could be taken, that rules this oil to be abandoned property. Under the law of the sea, I believe that would ean that anyone who picked up the oil was entitled to it.

Such a clarification could open up new opportunities to those who seek to protect the shoreline areas and those opportunities might at least pay for themselves through revenues derived from sale of the oil. At the very least it would prevent the abuse of power currently being visited on folks who are just trying to protect their own property. There is no good reason to be arresting people who seek only to protect what they already have a legal right to protect in almost every other conceivable way.

MOP Environmental Offers Green Oil Spill Kit for Boaters

Kit includes Skimmer to Keep Gas and Oil out of Public Waters

Bath, New Hampshire

MOP Environmental Solutions, Inc. (MOPN-pk) CEO, Charles Diamond today announced a new, affordably priced, Oil Spill Prevention Kit made especially for recreational boaters concerned about protecting the environment. The kit, includes a bilge skimmer (also offered separately) that is placed into the boat’s bilge. The skimmer immediately absorbs oil or gasoline assuring that the water from the boat’s bilge will not in any way threaten the purity of the public waterways.

The Spill Prevention Kit utilizes MOP® Maximum Oil Pickup, the company’s patented green (environmentally sutsainable) sorbent as the key component in a range of products including socks, pillows and the bilge skimmer. Made using renewable hydroelectric energy, entirely of recycled and organic materials MOP® Maximum Oil Pickup is the only "cradle to cradle" green product on the market. "Unlike many other green products, however," said President Charles Diamond, "MOP® also has a competitive advantage on both price and performance in the market." MOP's sorbent aggressively absorbs gas and oil while repelling water completely. With a pickup ratio at, or approaching, 30-1, MOP® is the most effective oil sorbent available anywhere.

Diamond continued, "We personally believe that other non-biodegradable spill sorbents such as clay and polypropylene should be banned from the market because they represent an irresponsible and unnecessary risk to the environment, particularly when it comes to disposal. Where MOP can be land farmed, composted, or even disposed as a solid waste, both clay and polypropylene almost always have to be treated as hazardous waste, adding huge costs to the products in the disposal process."

Refills Also Available

In addition to the environmentally friendly Spill Prevention Kits, MOP Environmental Solutions, Inc. has also released a new set of refills for all their Spill Prevention and Cleanup Kits. "We are exceedingly proud of the fact that we now offer refills for all of our spill prevention and cleanup kits, allowing us to refill only the consumable items at a substantially reduced cost to both the consumer and the environment .



MOP Environmental Solutions, Inc. (MOPN) is a publicly traded company. Their website is www.MOPEnvironmental.com

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Green Oil Spill Remediation with MOP

One of the biggest challenges faced by green products is the common misperception that by creating a sustainable product you must, by necessity, leave something out that really makes it work. We call it the methyl-ethyl-bad-stuff argument - well we use a different word than stuff but not in a family environment.

Not so with Maximum Oil Pickup. In fact, we'd wager that MOP, and its compliment of deployment products, is the most effective, environmentally sound, invention to date for rapidly mitigating oil spills of any size from the Exxon Valdez to your garage.

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