Beyond BP (NYSE:BP) Oil Spill, Kevin Costner Lays Out His Future Disaster Plan

Kevin Costner, who co-founded 'Ocean Therapy,' who developed a centrifuge system to separate oil and water which was deployed in helping to clean up the Gulf of Mexico, has now proposed a disaster plan for possible future oil spills in the Gulf.

The actor has been peddling his proposal to Gulf governors, members of Congress, and most recently to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement Director Michael Bromwich.

Costner's suggestion is to create what he called "coastal response facilities," which would be placed in several strategic cities on the Gulf coast, including Corpus Christi, Texas; Gulfport, Miss.; Pensacola, Fla., or Mobile, Ala.; Key West, Fla, and Port Fourchon and Lake Charles,

Costs to implement the plan would be about $895 million, and would entail a scattered fleet of 190 vessels which would be prepared for future accidents.

Oil giants Chevron (NYSE:CVX), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and Shell (NYSE:RDS-A) earlier in the year said they wanted to put together a rapid-response system, which would focus primarily making a better-designed blowout preventer which would to capture the oil better if there were a disaster.

Coster's plan focuses instead on oil which has reached the surface. That of course coincides with the types of equipment his company uses, which cleans the oil from the surface.