Kevin Costner comes to oil spill aid

The oil spill is a disaster of such epic proportions that it seems the only thing helping are Hollywood heroes. After Academy Award winner James Cameron, who offered his submarines, he filmed in twice the depths of the oil spill, another Oscar winner pushes to have his help accepted.
Kevin Costner, who has German ancestors, originally [...]

BP declines help from Austrian company

As a remedy to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico the federal government decided to use underwater oil dissolvers. All more or less biologically sound. The Austrian product Bioversal, which dissolves oil organically offered BP its help, but the oil giant declined.
See how oil gets dissolved organically on their website (German only)
http://www.bioversal-austria.at/bioframeset.html