MOP Environmental Solutions (MOPN)

[Helter Skelter]

Posted by: WOLDUMAR Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 6:15:56 AM
In reply to: None Post # of 10494

Waynes latest update
this has probably been posted.. But here is a latest email rec. from Wayne. MAY 11TH 9:30 P.M
MOP Update #4

Our multi-tiered approach to getting further involved in the Gulf spill continued over the weekend. MOP sorbent, booms and RESCUE Soil cleaning patent were presented at several high level meetings between members of the US Military – including the Coast Guard, BP and others.?
Rob King, Florida Sales Rep., is on the Ground on Dauphin Island as we speak bringing MOP to the attention of anyone that he can get to listen.

Mark Hearon, Sales Rep from Mississippi, is on the ground in Alabama at the convention Center. According to him it’s a madhouse and he even had to submit to a background check by the Secret Service!

In addition to the Boom bids being negotiated by MOP we are also working to open up the ground on the issue of loose sorbent. Specifically the MOP Sorbent. Right now the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has issued a directive banning the use of loose absorbants on the spill. This, despite the fact that they have made the environmentally unsound decision to allow the use of loose dispersants that simply move the problem to a different (and harder to reach) venue, including the ocean floor. The tar balls that are showing up on the beaches are a direct result of using the dispersants and they are much harder to clean up than liquid oil.

We think you will agree that the MOP loose sorbent should be allowed for use on the spill after you read this alert. We will not give up on convincing the Coast Guard to do the responsible thing and allow loose sorbents. But the success of our efforts in the Gulf are in no way dependent upon it, we simply feel that our responsibility to the planet should also be a part of our efforts.

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According to the staff of Environmental Information Office at the Spill Response Command Center:

The Marine Biologists at NOAA have made a decision to ban the use of loose absorbants – even those certified as safe on open water by EPA,

1 container of MOP Sorbent, certified safe for use in open water, can contain (lock up) 75,000 gallons of spilled oil. By comparison it takes 23,076 6’’ x 10’ polypropylene booms to accomplish the same amount of spill cleanup.

MOP Booms, which can and will be used on the spill are 4 times more effective than Polypropylene booms but even using high absorption booms, like those we produce, would still require more than 5000 booms to rival one truckload of loose absorbent.

1 Container of MOP costs $32,000
22,076 Booms cost: $865,350

The spill companies do exceedingly well while the problem grows. They love this system because many of them build their profits on a long, slow, and expensive cleanup process.

MOP is aggressive, oleophyllic and hydrophobic. It rejects water and locks up oil.

MOP will never sink below the surface, If it is blown in below the surface it will rise to the surface and will not sink , even when saturated with oil.

A Ban on Loose Sorbent is a Huge Mistake
They are already spraying loose dispersant which is a loose product that will exacerbate the long-term problem. Already tar balls are showing up on the beaches from using the dispersants. Why not apply loose absorbent that will actually contain the spill?

We need to push the Coast Guard, BP and others to get the NOAA directive overturned.

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Shareholder Question
A MOP shareholder recently wrote to us with the question below:
I am an investor in MOPN and am very impressed with all I have seen but I have one question. Why is MOP not listed on the US National Contingency website?

Our response:
That listing is for products other than natural sorbents. They are generally products that are not green and contain chemicals, such as the dispersants that are being used. We contend that dispersants make the problem worse in the long run because they simply hide the problem. ??But the letter got us thinking about whether this list in some ways was equally confusing to those working to clean up the spill.

The irony of this is that the EPA has no list of safe, recycled, and sustainable solutions to oil spills on their website but they do have a full listing of all of the items that have enough chemicals in them to warrant testing. By default they may be making the unsustainable solutions the “preferred” ones.

Over the weekend we put together a letter and documentation for all of the contacts that we have made in the past few weeks. We will be sending them a letter bringing this to their attention.

MOP Booms Now Price Competitive with Polypropylene?Pickup capacity becomes the new “Choice-Point”

MOP has always had a competitive edge for discriminating buyers who made a comparison on all the facts. Our booms have a pickup capacity about 2-4x better than any of the other booms on the market. On a price per pound of pickup ratio we have also blown away the competition. However, manufacturers of polypropylene booms have been very good at marketing their booms on price alone . . . avoiding any discussion of pickup capacity. As long as they were able to manufacture cheap booms and not have to compare the pickup capacity, they could always find plenty of folks who would not ask the right questions and just purchase the poly booms.

Now a dramatic increase in raw material costs for Poly products (this week rising from 20 cents a pound to $2.00 per pound) is bringing price parity to the market allowing us to fight it out on quality and pickup quantity. That’s a battle we welcome because no one comes close to MOP’s 30-1 pickup ratio. Furthermore we believe we have stable raw material costs and should be able to continue to offer MOP booms at the same prices. We are already getting requests for MOP booms as a replacement for Poly booms. We believe that once businesses try the superior MOP Booms that they will stay with us, even if Poly prices go back down at some future point in time.

It looks quite certain however, that prices will remain high for quite some time due to the spill. Raw material providers who have been through the Exxon Valdez spill predict a tight market for 6 -9 months - and that is it they plug the leaking well soon.

The big tar balls showing up on the beaches are the first signs of the environmental damage wreaked by the Oil spill and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s decision to use dispersants on the spill. Dispersants just shift the problem around and set up a series of environmental timebombs that will go off over the coming years.


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Wayne D. King
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MOP May 2010 Magazine & Catalog
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