No demand for oil boom

A Maine company converted its factory to making oil containment boom to help save the Gulf coast. Now they have miles of boom sitting in their warehouse, and neither BP nor the government is buying.

UPDATE: The man in charge of the federal effort says he never heard about this.

UPDATE: The Coast Guard now says that the boom didn’t pass quality tests.

UPDATE: An outside analysis shows that the boom is actually superior to other boom.

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