Taking a more hands on approach to changing the environment, Kevin Costner, actor and also co-founder of Ocean Therapy's centrifuge system for separating oil and water, talks to Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser in Port Fourchon, La., Thursday. They are aboard the Ella G. vessel which is to be deployed carrying Ocean Therapy's machines for use in the Gulf oil cleanup efforts.
A man working on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup on Fourchon Beach photographs the clouds after the area was evacuated because of high winds and lightning from Tropical Storm Alex in Port Fourchon, La.
Kevin Costner, left, founding partner of Ocean Therapy Solutions, speaks to Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell at a news conference in Port Fourchon, La., Friday, about Costner's company's centrifuge machine that is designed to separate oil and water.
Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks with employees in the oil and gas industry about President Obama's moratorium on deepwater drilling at a business in Port Fourchon, La. The oil spill has been called the largest environmental disaster in American history.
Workers collect oil that is washing ashore on Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La.
Floating living quarters for Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup workers, known as "flotels" are seen docked in Port Fourchon, La.
President Obama, LaFourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph and U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, national incident commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, step over absorbent boom laid out to protect the beach from oil during a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill in Port Fourchon, La.
President Obama and LaFourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph discuss the oil washed up as "tar balls" during a tour of areas impacted by the Gulf Coast oil spill in Port Fourchon, La.
Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, national incident commander for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response, points at absorbent material called snare as he tours cleanup efforts on Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La.
A worker shovels oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La.
A BP cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, La.
Workers shovel oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill off Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon, La.
A dead porpoise dries as a BP cleanup crew works to remove oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, La. As BP prepares to try to stop the oil leak with a "top kill" method, the Louisiana coastline reels from the effects of the gusher. It was not clear how the porpoise died.
A cleanup crew picks up oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, La. Oil from the leaking Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico has pushed at least 12 miles into Louisiana’s marshes, threatening the state’s delicate coastal wetlands.
A cleanup crew removes oil from a beach at Port Fourchon, La. Officials claim it may be impossible to clean the hundreds of miles of coastal wetlands affected by the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill which continues gushing crude from a ruptured drilling pipe 5,000 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico.
The pollution control dome is lifted onboard an oil workboat in Port Fourchon. A crane lowered the five-story, 100-ton dome onto the Joe Griffin for the 12-hour journey from Port Fourchon to the epicenter of the disaster, some 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. The aim is to place the structure over the main leak to trap the oil so it can be funneled up through a mile-long pipe to the Deepwater Enterprise, a ship that can process and store the crude-water mix. The operation to lower it is planned for early next week. At a depth of 5,000 feet, it will be conducted using remote-controlled submarines and is fraught with difficulty.
Work continues in Port Fourchon, La., on the oil containment chamber that will be used to help cap the oil leaking from the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform.
Workers put the finishing touches on the pollution control dome at the Martin Terminal worksite in Port Fourchon, La., as BP rushes to cap the source of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. The 98-ton dome, which is to be guided onto the largest of three oil leaks by remote-controlled submarines a mile down on the seabed, should be operational within six days according to BP.
Welders work on the pollution control dome in Port Fourchon, La. BP seeks to cap the gushing oil from the fractured well nearly a mile below the ocean surface.
A safety officer watches as a "pollution control dome" is built by steelworkers at the Martin Terminal worksite in Port Fourchon, La. BP is rushing to cap the source of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon platform disaster.
A welder fabricates a portion of the BP subsea oil recovery system chamber at Wild Well Control in Port Fourchon, La., on Monday. The chamber will be one of the largest ever built and will be used in an attempt to contain an oil leak related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion.