The United States government recently released a report pertaining to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Serving as a status report, the paper offered a very positive perspective on the efforts to clean the oil. According to the results, 75% of the oil had been cleaned up and the spill was will on its way to becoming negligible. However, people didn’t trust these results for a number of reasons.

The first major question pertaining to the report by the United States government was that they used questionable measurement techniques. According to descriptions of the study, the same techniques were used to quantify this oil spill as the Exxon Valdez. However, the two spills are of very different types. The Exxon Valdez was a tanker spill and so the bulk of the oil spilled onto the surface. The new situation occurred in an oil well, meaning the oil leaked from within the ocean, and so the presence on the surface is a gross underestimate.

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The first step in getting a grant is looking at which government agency can help make this happen. Each one has a different set of requirements and it is only when the entrepreneur qualifies under this set of rules that the person is eligible.

If the federal government cannot help, perhaps the entrepreneur can try reaching someone in the state level.

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