Several bio-remediation techniques involving hydrocarbon-eating microbes are
dependent on the injection of oxygen when they are in soil such as at the old
tank farm in Haines Alaska.
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 23:10:16 -0400
> From: venaurafarm@bellsouth.net
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Oil spill - solutions?
>
> Cory Brennan wrote:
> > Oil eating microbes die when the oil is gone. The oil, on the other
> > hand, sticks around in one form or other and keeps on killing. They
> > are now using toxic stuff that sinks it to the bottom of the ocean. I
> > guess out of sight, out of mind... The company I am most familiar
> > with uses only existing microbes, they are not GM at all.
>
> Do they require an aerobic environment? The Gulf marshes are lacking in
> water movement and oxygen and that is an important place where the
> microbes would be needed. This situation could be positive for anaerobic
> oil eating microbes; they could stay in place relatively undisturbed to
> do their work. During storms the areas could be cleansed, flushing away
> residues, leaving the marshes in near original condition, ideally.
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