Little spent on spill cleanup technology

By doris | Published: June 27, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com

ON BARATARIA BAY, La. — While oil companies have spent billions of dollars to drill deeper and farther out to sea, relatively little money and research have gone into finding new, improved ways to respond to oil spills in deepsea conditions like those in the Gulf of Mexico.

Experts say the massive Gulf spill has exposed a failure by the industry and the federal government to commit adequate resources to oil cleanup and response technology.

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