Can Kevin Costner help save the world from one of its biggest environmental disasters?

The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began almost two months back, has now become the largest oil spill in the world. A deep water drilling rig explosion led to this oil spill and is now on a daily basis flowing up to 40,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf , thereby causing severe damage to the marine and wildlife habitats and severe losses to the Gulf of Mexico fishing and tourism industry. All ongoing efforts to control this spill by BP have gone in vain.

Now, Kevin Costner, the multi talented American actor and businessman has stood up and testified that he can, with the help of the oil separation machines his company manufactures, help clean up the oil spill mess being caused by BP.

‘The Bodyguard’ star has testified before the House Energy and Environment subcommittee on a water purification system that he’s developed and how that could help separate the toxic sludge from the Gulf water. “I come before you as a discouraged U.S. citizen and an entrepreneur with a partial solution to the tragedy unfolding in the Gulf,” said Costner.

Costner had ventured into the business of oil separation machines in 1995 when he purchased Ocean Therapy Solutions, from the US government for $24 million. Till the BP oil spill happened, these machines were hardly of significance to anyone, but now he has a huge order of 32 of the centrifugal separators from BP. Costner hopes that by August end he’ll have all 32 machines working in the Gulf.

Apart from Costner, another Hollywood veteran director James Cameron has also offered help to BP and has even held private meetings with scientists , engineers and submersible experts, in order to come up with ways in helping BP beat this disaster.

Well Costner, you now have the entire world’s attention drawn towards you and we hope your machine turns out be a big hit as some of your flicks have been.