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Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
With oil spill in Gulf, and sewage and nasty things going on in New Orleans, this could be a HUGE play in the upcoming week.

Volume coming in big last 2 hours

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS - News) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

edit: BUGS is the stock that went from 2c to about 30c couple years ago
 
Posted by Along4theRide on :
 
Here is some more DD on this

August 29, 2005 - 9:25 AM EDT
SSWM 0.14 0.00

Today 5d 1m 3m 1y 5y 10y



BUGS 0.0131 0.0016

Today 5d 1m 3m 1y 5y 10y



SSWM Mexico Subsidiary Signs Service Alliance & Teaming Agreement with National Autonomous University of Mexico; Alliance to Contract with Pemex
Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM) announced that its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) has signed a strategic alliance and teaming agreement with the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to provide technical and Engineering Implementation support for all projects related to environmental protection and site remediation throughout Mexico.

Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM, stated, "This is a historic milestone for the company as UNAM, an independent entity of the Federal Government of Mexico, has an open and on-going contractual relationship with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Mexican state oil corporation. As an alliance contractor with UNAM, ETI is providing marketing, engineering, site assessment and remediation support to all Pemex divisions. Pemex requests work orders from UNAM-ETI then issues purchase orders under direct assignment contracts with up to 25 percent of the contract value immediately released for site mobilization. This strategic contracting vehicle is allowing UNAM-ETI to immediately scope, schedule and budget pressing and urgent environmental protection assignments from Pemex divisions."

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

Investors and media contact Bruce Beattie at 760-918-1860, ext. 105 or bbeattie@bugsatwork.com; or learn about the company by visiting its Web site at http://www.bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.


Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.
Bruce Beattie, 760-918-1860, ext. 105
bbeattie@bugsatwork.com
http://www.bugsatwork.com


Source: Business Wire (August 29, 2005 - 9:25 AM EDT)

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Posted by The Nice Guy on :
 
Zack

Good pick. I see it moving. Besides, it has reached its bottom recently.

The Hurricane and water problem may fuel buying on this one.

Good luck.
 
Posted by Along4theRide on :
 
I agree I think it is a solid play, up 20% right now, looking for other insight though before I buy. Would like to buy before the weekend.
 
Posted by farpceca on :
 
BUGS insider buying; CEO buys 3 million shares http://xml.10kwizard.com/filing_raw.php?repo=tenk&ipage=3669197

BUGS cancels S-8 dilution

http://xml.10kwizard.com/filing_raw.php?repo=tenk&ipage=3666621
 
Posted by Along4theRide on :
 
Thanks much Farpcece, wish I complete understood what it meant! LOL Is that a bad thing when the CEO buy into a company?
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
:-D hell yea, gave pick at .012x.0125

currently running hard .0165
 
Posted by argo on :
 
moving up , mexican oil play
 
Posted by The Nice Guy on :
 
ALONG..

when CEO buy back company's shares, it means many things;
1- The stock is under valued,
2- The stock will go up due to reasons that the CEO knows (expected contract, more sales, better economic indications, etc)

I think this is a good opportunity. I am not into this stock.
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
I think it is still a good time to get in, you should consider it Nice Guy. I feel a triple from here next week is not out of the question. IMHO
 
Posted by argo on :
 
Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide
 
Posted by The Nice Guy on :
 
Zack


I would have gotten into it, but my funds are tight with BCIT. The trading of that security has been halted by SEC.

I am just watching and commenting on some interesting stocks. Best Luck.
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
Nice Guy:
oh man, BCIT was halted? I didn't know, Best of Luck with that (hopefully its a good halt).

Everyone else:
BUGS i'm guessing will close at .0195 today
 
Posted by farpceca on :
 
better get in before tuesday folks
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
Hopefully we'll see it double or triple on Tuesday, looking forward to the workweek! lol
 
Posted by farpceca on :
 
gonna be long weekend waiting for this
 
Posted by kcaz007 on :
 
BUGS ran good today but next week IMO will be much bigger. The chart is shows it is primed.

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?symb=bugs&compidx=aaaaa%3A0&ma=0&maval=9&uf=0&lf=1&lf2=0&lf3=0&type=2&size=2&state=8&sid=103644&style=320&time=10&freq=2&nosetting s=1&rand=6796&mocktick=1&rand=5203

It is running on potential for the Hurricane help, then later on torwards the bell, news came out that there is a huge oil spill in the Mississippi in Louisiana.
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-09-02T192210Z_01_SCH269744_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-WEATHER-KATRINA-SPILL-DC.XML

The oil spill still has not been widely reported as of yet due to news priority (tragedy). The spill is real which signals that BUGS could be a player in the cleanup effort with its microbes to break down the contamnants. On news like this last time, BUGS ran from .02 to near .30.

Quick DD:
U.S. Microbics, Inc. operates as a business development and holding company that facilitates and develops the deployment of environmental technologies. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in two divisions, USM Solutions and USM Capital. USM Solutions division manufactures, develops, and markets proprietary microbial technologies that provide natural solutions to various environmental problems. The company's microbes or bugs can be used to break down various hydrocarbon substances, including <b>oil</b>, diesel fuel, methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether, Tetrachloroethene, certain toxic waste, and certain water and soil contamination.
 
Posted by kcaz007 on :
 
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=UUB.BE&t=1d

Traded up 400% in Germany today with nice volume! Tomorrow is going to be awesome!!!
 
Posted by NeuroDoctor on :
 
I am considering a buy. I understand the potential given the sector. Is there any evidence that this company will be chosen as compared to other companies. This site may be helpful.....http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/contracts/contacts.pdf
 
Posted by farpceca on :
 
cooooool 400%!! let's see that tomorrow!

is it accurate to predict tomorrow's activity by how it did in berlin today? does our market activity tend to mirror the foreign market activity of the same security?
 
Posted by chronic1342 on :
 
BUGS is on roll, I wonder how long it can keep it up, I will be keeping an eye on this one.

BUGS DD LINKS: http://tinyurl.com/76mcb
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
Starting to gap!! Looking like a very strong open!
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
Gave it at .013, now at .025, its a-rollin!
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
Anyone watching? I got in at .02 , so far so good. Any ideas where it can go
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
I hope other people are watching. I was hoping to get more shares but there has not been a dip yet!
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
nice pick Zack!!! wowo, u called it at .0012 i belive, now up to .0036.. 3 bagger, nice!!! I missed it [Frown]
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
It's not too late. We're about to break .04 and then who knows what...
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
i dont really want to chase it, its up soo far allready. I have lost to much doin that.
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
Yeah, I understand. The question is how high do you think it will go. I got in early at 0.002, albeit for not too many shares. The L2's all indicate extremely positive support for .04 and above.

GLTA!
 
Posted by TheHatter on :
 
Do you guys think a shake is due?
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
I've been waiting for one since 0.02! I just don't see a shake, the support is WAY too strong on all sides. .48 is gone, .05 is next and after that I have no idea where it will go
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
any L2s? is this still showing some potential to go up more?
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
Bid: 0.047
Ask: 0.048

BID L2's
.046x1 5000
.045x2 5000
.042x1 5000

ASK L2's

.047x2 5000
.0475x1 5000
.049x1 5000
.050x7 5000

NITE just got onboard, prepare for a shake?
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
Here we go, shake time. They can't let it break .05.
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
anyone gonna bail or hang on....? They will never let it break .05?
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
If you wanted a shake to get in on, this would be it. I mean it will break .05 but I think the MM's were all caught very offguard and are desperatly trying to get some control back.
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
And we're back...
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
kinda...^^^^
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
I mean, we are up 141% for the day LOL
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
i know, lol, ya can complain........ GLTA
 
Posted by theone2005 on :
 
i bailed at 48, not being greedy
 
Posted by theone2005 on :
 
i got back in at 4 can't help being greedy. hoping for a nice eod rush.
 
Posted by bgrance on :
 
Nice bail... I'm paper trading, and to see one of my picks go up 160% is killing me!
 
Posted by The Nice Guy on :
 
theone

You bailed out at the ask (at day high)??
 
Posted by Zacktrade on :
 
Glad you all did so well on this today. I sold much of my position mid-day and the rest at .04

I don't know where this could possibly go now, but glta!

I will update you on my next pick when the time comes :-)
 
Posted by theone2005 on :
 
well i didn't want to bail. put a limit order at 48 and i fell asleep
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
is anyone still holding on to this? have we reached the peak? i'm going to get out within the next 20 minutes.
 
Posted by theone2005 on :
 
holding till 5min left in trading day or pps reach at least 46
 
Posted by The Nice Guy on :
 
futu

My advice: make money. This is a penny stock; it may go down to one penny or it may go to 10 cents.

Don't be greedy. Best Luck.
 
Posted by futurama08 on :
 
No doubt, I got my sell order in, can't ask more than double your money in 1 session!
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
any one in for tomorrow?
 
Posted by JL on :
 
^^^^^^ Rookie.
 
Posted by raidr on :
 
still in for tommorrow- got in between .025 & .028, dumped half at .044. nice call Zack
 
Posted by raidr on :
 
got a question.??? which brokers do u guys use?
I tried to get in at ,02 then had to call scottrade to get it rolling then took 7 orders (7 commissions?)to fill my buy, plus,lowest started at .025! any suggestions of more preferable brokers would be appreciated.
 
Posted by chronic1342 on :
 
BUGS is crusin, I wonder how long it can keep it up.
BUGS DD LINKS: http://tinyurl.com/76mcb
 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
Sure glad I stayed in [Smile]
 
Posted by TheHatter on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by raidr:
got a question.??? which brokers do u guys use?
I tried to get in at ,02 then had to call scottrade to get it rolling then took 7 orders (7 commissions?)to fill my buy, plus,lowest started at .025! any suggestions of more preferable brokers would be appreciated.

I like Ameritrade for us non-pro's. I havent had any issues with their ordering system and they have some pretty usefull tools for free.
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
is this on the way out, or just dipping?
 
Posted by raidr on :
 
maybe the 'lunch-time'dip?....i hope
 
Posted by raidr on :
 
bounced off 49 twice today, maybe pass 5 later ya think??? staying in???
 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
Wow! What a day. This thing has some legs!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Governor of the State of Puebla, Mexico Directs the National Autonomous University of Mexico to Fund SSWM Subsidiary Projects

September 08, 2005 09:45:01 (ET)


CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 08, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (SSWM, Trade), announced that its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) was named specifically in an official correspondence dated September 1, 2005 signed by Governor Mario Marin Torres of the State of Puebla, Mexico directing ETI strategic alliance and teaming partner the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to provide immediate funding for engineering assessment and remediation of hydrocarbon discharges due to antiquated pipelines and storage tank farms. The recent Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipeline spills in Puebla have accounted for the contamination of hundreds of acres of productive farming land, rivers and lakes.

Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM stated, "In the Governor's letter UNAM was also instructed to work with ETI to form an Emergency Response Center in Puebla coordinating with the State's Ministry of Environment to train specialized environmental Engineers and Technicians to respond to future spills of hydrocarbons in the State."

On Friday September 2, 2005 Governor Mario Marin Torres held a press conference covered by local and national media reprimanding Pemex, the state owned oil company, for the irresponsible management of their petroleum pipelines in Mexico, specifically in the states of Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche. The following day, September 3, 2005, Mexico's leading newspaper -- The Reforma -- quoted the Governor as he stated that the three most recent spills of crude oil and gasoline have contaminated water reservoirs, farm lands and rivers, in some cases impacting up to hundreds of acres.

Governor Mario Marin Torres has formed an alliance with the governors of Veracruz, Mr. Fidel Herrera, Tabasco, Mr. Manuel Andrade and Campeche, Mr. Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, to ensure immediate restoration and remediation of the areas affected with Pemex's crude oil and gasoline releases, as these states have experienced hundreds of hydrocarbons spills during this year.

Governor Mario Marin Torres has requested an immediate meeting with the President of Pemex, Mr. Luis Ramirez Corzo to obtain Pemex's immediate acceptance of these remediation activities and their financial support for the same.

Environmental Tech International will be responsible for the majority of the restoration activities vis-a-vis these contaminated areas, i.e.: farming lands, rivers and water reservoirs in Puebla working through Governor Mario Marin Torres and his Secretary for the Ministry of Environment.

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS, Trade) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.


Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.
Alan Kau, 888-795-3166
http://www.bugsatwork.com/19.asp
 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
BUGS owns majority interest in SSWM a 20 cent stock? That news should keep us moving.
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
About U.S. Microbics

U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS) is a recognized as a leader in the bioremediation industry. The roots of the company go back to four decades, to the pioneering work of George Robinson, who first advanced the idea of using microbes to consume oil spilled along the coast of Santa Barbara, California. His legacy includes thirty-years of theoretical and empirical research leading to the successful formulas for microbe separation, ultra-high yield fermentation, consortium formulations for specific problem solving tasks, long term storage of microorganisms, and completion of field-successful applications. Mery Robinson, George Robinson"s daughter, is Executive Vice President of U.S. Microbics, and President of two of the Company"s subsidiaries.

Operationally, U.S. Microbics consists of six majority-owned subsidiaries using biological technology to revolutionize environmental clean-up and agricultural growth.

1. Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware Inc. (SSWM) - provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services. Sub-Surface Waste Management"s team designs, permits, builds, and operates environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological, and filtration technologies.

2. XyclonyX - develops and applies its key technologies that include patents, proprietary knowledge, products, processes, and expert personnel. XyclonyX technologies are sold to the environmental, petrochemical, agricultural, and waste treatment markets. XyclonyX has developed a formulation for mass producing proprietary microbial blends in liquid and powder forms.

3. West Coast Fermentation Center, Inc. (WCFC) - cultivates microbial cultures for the Company"s product lines: Bi-Agra Remediline and Wasteline. WCFC operates a microbe laboratory, pilot plant, and quality control center. WCFC produces microbial blends using fermentation technology, powder blending, and combinatorial liquifaction.

4. Sol Tech, Inc. (doing business as Wasteline Performance Corp.) - was formed specifically to serve markets for treating wastewater in the U.S.A. and internationally.

5. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. - provides microbial blends and bio-processing treatment systems for agricultural yield enhancement, odor control, insect control, and cogeneration. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico: Natura Agricultura, S.A. d. C.V., which has conducted tests that demonstrate microbial-based increases to sugar cane production.

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Lets go folks!! I need to buy a Condo in Hawaii!

This stock is a no brainer all the way up to The stratosphere.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dustoff101:
About U.S. Microbics

U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS) is a recognized as a leader in the bioremediation industry. The roots of the company go back to four decades, to the pioneering work of George Robinson, who first advanced the idea of using microbes to consume oil spilled along the coast of Santa Barbara, California. His legacy includes thirty-years of theoretical and empirical research leading to the successful formulas for microbe separation, ultra-high yield fermentation, consortium formulations for specific problem solving tasks, long term storage of microorganisms, and completion of field-successful applications. Mery Robinson, George Robinson"s daughter, is Executive Vice President of U.S. Microbics, and President of two of the Company"s subsidiaries.

Operationally, U.S. Microbics consists of six majority-owned subsidiaries using biological technology to revolutionize environmental clean-up and agricultural growth.

1. Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware Inc. (SSWM) - provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services. Sub-Surface Waste Management"s team designs, permits, builds, and operates environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological, and filtration technologies.

2. XyclonyX - develops and applies its key technologies that include patents, proprietary knowledge, products, processes, and expert personnel. XyclonyX technologies are sold to the environmental, petrochemical, agricultural, and waste treatment markets. XyclonyX has developed a formulation for mass producing proprietary microbial blends in liquid and powder forms.

3. West Coast Fermentation Center, Inc. (WCFC) - cultivates microbial cultures for the Company"s product lines: Bi-Agra Remediline and Wasteline. WCFC operates a microbe laboratory, pilot plant, and quality control center. WCFC produces microbial blends using fermentation technology, powder blending, and combinatorial liquifaction.

4. Sol Tech, Inc. (doing business as Wasteline Performance Corp.) - was formed specifically to serve markets for treating wastewater in the U.S.A. and internationally.

5. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. - provides microbial blends and bio-processing treatment systems for agricultural yield enhancement, odor control, insect control, and cogeneration. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico: Natura Agricultura, S.A. d. C.V., which has conducted tests that demonstrate microbial-based increases to sugar cane production.

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Lets go folks!! I need to buy a Condo in Hawaii!

This stock is a no brainer all the way up to The stratosphere.

It's following the same trend as the previous two days. Down in the morning and up in the afternoon.
 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
This stock is going up AGAIN, watch
 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
Anybody think we go over 5 today?
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
b/a = 53 54, last = 53 16.5M vol

run baby!!!
 
Posted by Danny K on :
 
.055
 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
58 now, eod run. BUGS subsiderary is 20 cents, this should run even higher GLTA
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Dustoff101:
About U.S. Microbics

U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS) is a recognized as a leader in the bioremediation industry. The roots of the company go back to four decades, to the pioneering work of George Robinson, who first advanced the idea of using microbes to consume oil spilled along the coast of Santa Barbara, California. His legacy includes thirty-years of theoretical and empirical research leading to the successful formulas for microbe separation, ultra-high yield fermentation, consortium formulations for specific problem solving tasks, long term storage of microorganisms, and completion of field-successful applications. Mery Robinson, George Robinson"s daughter, is Executive Vice President of U.S. Microbics, and President of two of the Company"s subsidiaries.

Operationally, U.S. Microbics consists of six majority-owned subsidiaries using biological technology to revolutionize environmental clean-up and agricultural growth.

1. Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware Inc. (SSWM) - provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services. Sub-Surface Waste Management"s team designs, permits, builds, and operates environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological, and filtration technologies.

2. XyclonyX - develops and applies its key technologies that include patents, proprietary knowledge, products, processes, and expert personnel. XyclonyX technologies are sold to the environmental, petrochemical, agricultural, and waste treatment markets. XyclonyX has developed a formulation for mass producing proprietary microbial blends in liquid and powder forms.

3. West Coast Fermentation Center, Inc. (WCFC) - cultivates microbial cultures for the Company"s product lines: Bi-Agra Remediline and Wasteline. WCFC operates a microbe laboratory, pilot plant, and quality control center. WCFC produces microbial blends using fermentation technology, powder blending, and combinatorial liquifaction.

4. Sol Tech, Inc. (doing business as Wasteline Performance Corp.) - was formed specifically to serve markets for treating wastewater in the U.S.A. and internationally.

5. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. - provides microbial blends and bio-processing treatment systems for agricultural yield enhancement, odor control, insect control, and cogeneration. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico: Natura Agricultura, S.A. d. C.V., which has conducted tests that demonstrate microbial-based increases to sugar cane production.


U.S. Microbics, Inc. operates as a business development and holding company that facilitates and develops the deployment of environmental technologies. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in two divisions, USM Solutions and USM Capital. USM Solutions division manufactures, develops, and markets proprietary microbial technologies that provide natural solutions to various environmental problems. The company's microbes or bugs can be used to break down various hydrocarbon substances, including oil, diesel fuel, methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether, Tetrachloroethene, certain toxic waste, and certain water and soil contamination. USM Capital division (UC) provides various services, including management consulting services, administrative services, and investor relations services. UC also facilitates the exchange of technologies and customers with the subsidiaries and their client companies.


Insider Buying:

Robert C Brehm
Open Market Purchase 3,000,000 09/01/2005

Boca Investments
Proposed Sale (Form 144) 314,000 08/25/2005

Conrad B Nagel
Open Market Purchase 401,679 07/26/2005


Board Of Directors:

ROBERT C. BREHM has served as our chief executive officer, president
and chairman of the board since July 1997. He also served as our vice president
from November 1996 to January 1997 and as a consultant through Robert C. Brehm
Consulting, Inc., an investment banking, investor relations and strategic
planning company. From July 1994 through the present, Mr. Brehm has served as
the president of Robert C. Brehm Consulting, Inc. From 1991 to 1994, he was the
president of Specialty Financing International, Inc., a finance procurement
company. Mr. Brehm has owned computer hardware, software, finance and consulting
companies. Mr. Brehm has a double engineering degree in electrical engineering
and computer science and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of
California at Berkeley.

MERY C. ROBINSON has served as a director since September 1997 and our
executive vice president and secretary since September 1997. Ms. Robinson was
appointed chief operating officer on October 1, 1998. Ms. Robinson is the
founder of XyclonyX and has served as its president and chief executive officer
since August 1997. Ms. Robinson was the president of our subsidiary, Sub-Surface
Waste Management, Inc., from 1992 to 1995 and president of Omega Resources
Management from 1995 to 1997. From 1986 to 1992, she served as the vice
president of finance and administration of Westside Telephone Systems in Santa
Monica, California, a telephone interconnect service and equipment sales
company. Ms. Robinson has held various other positions in operating and starting
up high-tech engineering and biotech companies. She received her BS in
Journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a
Masters of Science in Environmental Science/Engineering from California State
University, Dominguez Hills, and has and has attended the NFWBOsponsored/
Wharton Graduate School of Business/Entrepreneurial Mini-MBA program.

ROGER K. KNIGHT has served as a director since February 1990 and our
vice president-business development since July 1997. Mr. Knight has significant
experience in identifying business candidates for acquisitions, and served as
our president from January 1995 through October 1996. Mr. Knight retired from
the U.S. Navy as a Captain in July 1965, and has been involved in retail
operations since the mid-1970s.

ROBERT H. KEY is chairman and chief executive officer of Arivest
Corporation, a real estate investment and development firm, located in Phoenix,
Arizona. Arivest Corporation is the parent corporation of Corporate Realty
Advisors, Inc., a commercial real estate brokerage firm. Mr. Key joined Arivest
Corporation as president upon its formation in April, 1979. He holds a Bachelor
of Science degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, (1972) with a
major in Business Administration. Mr. Key has been a general partner, real
estate broker, consultant or developer of a large number of commercial real
estate projects.

MARK A. HOLMSTEDT has 23 years of public finance experience covering a
variety of specialty areas. Mr. Holmstedt began his investment banking tenure
with Blyth Eastman Dillon Co. (now PaineWebber) and was the director in charge
of Bear Stearns Public Finance Department in Los Angeles prior to becoming a
principal of Westhoff, Cone Holmstedt. He has a particular expertise in
project financings and land secured transactions which involve the sale of
securities through the use of an assessment district, redevelopment agency,
community facilities district or combination thereof. Mr. Holmstedt graduated
with honors in Business Management and Finance from the University of
California, Davis.

CONRAD NAGEL has served as our chief financial officer since July 1998
and a director of Sub Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.,since July
2003. Mr. Nagel was previously hired as the chief financial officer of Global
Venture Funding, Inc. in April 1997, and served us as a consultant from
September 15, 1997 through June 1998. Mr. Nagel has an MS degree in Accounting,
University of Kansas (1964), a BS degree in Business, University of Kansas
(1963) and has been a CPA since 1966. Mr. Nagel has been associated with SEC

work, auditing, and finance operations for the past 30 years including audit
manager for Touche Ross (now Deloitte Touche), vice president of finance of
Decision Incorporated, internal audit manager for Kaiser Aetna, Chief Financial
Officer for Calusa Financial Medical, Inc., vice president of finance for
Medical Capital Corporation and over 15 years CPA practice specializing in
taxation and SEC work.

-------------------------------------------------

This is a no nonsense company..
The talent just within the board directors is outstanding in a OTCBB..


 
Posted by doling2005 on :
 
67 now guys
 
Posted by cbrf2 on :
 
closed at 71 X 749! Bought this the other day at 36, sold at 47, then bought again at 38 and sold at 46. Bought today at 52, and surpassed my twenty percent spot! I love this! those that holdin, be careful tomorrow mornin, 5 day consecutive runs are rare..... but glta! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.bugsatwork.com/35.asp
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Has anyone written to their Senator, Congressman, Louissianna Govt., Pres. about BUGS? It would not hurt to push the issue in regarding the clean-up of the disaster area down south.
 
Posted by janzik on :
 
Does this one look like it's still worth to try and get in on or do you think I missed my mark?
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
I just bought some more. BUGS is very undervalued. Once the announce the dollar amount of the contracts in Mexico, this thing is going through the roof.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.allstocks.com/stockmessageboard/ubb/ultimatebb.php/ubb/get_topic/f/2/t/008604/p/4.html
 
Posted by janzik on :
 
Ok, I got in at 63 for a few... We'll see how it rolls...
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Here we go. It turned around.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
I wish I had funds available to get more on this dip. Keep an eye on this come the last 1.5 hours of the day, that seems to be when the action really has been picking up over the last three days.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.tradingday.com/tbs.html?http://quotes.barchart.com/texpert.asp?sym=BUGS&code=BTDY
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Peaser01:
quote:
Originally posted by Dustoff101:
About U.S. Microbics

U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS) is a recognized as a leader in the bioremediation industry. The roots of the company go back to four decades, to the pioneering work of George Robinson, who first advanced the idea of using microbes to consume oil spilled along the coast of Santa Barbara, California. His legacy includes thirty-years of theoretical and empirical research leading to the successful formulas for microbe separation, ultra-high yield fermentation, consortium formulations for specific problem solving tasks, long term storage of microorganisms, and completion of field-successful applications. Mery Robinson, George Robinson"s daughter, is Executive Vice President of U.S. Microbics, and President of two of the Company"s subsidiaries.

Operationally, U.S. Microbics consists of six majority-owned subsidiaries using biological technology to revolutionize environmental clean-up and agricultural growth.

1. Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware Inc. (SSWM) - provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services. Sub-Surface Waste Management"s team designs, permits, builds, and operates environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological, and filtration technologies.

2. XyclonyX - develops and applies its key technologies that include patents, proprietary knowledge, products, processes, and expert personnel. XyclonyX technologies are sold to the environmental, petrochemical, agricultural, and waste treatment markets. XyclonyX has developed a formulation for mass producing proprietary microbial blends in liquid and powder forms.

3. West Coast Fermentation Center, Inc. (WCFC) - cultivates microbial cultures for the Company"s product lines: Bi-Agra Remediline and Wasteline. WCFC operates a microbe laboratory, pilot plant, and quality control center. WCFC produces microbial blends using fermentation technology, powder blending, and combinatorial liquifaction.

4. Sol Tech, Inc. (doing business as Wasteline Performance Corp.) - was formed specifically to serve markets for treating wastewater in the U.S.A. and internationally.

5. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. - provides microbial blends and bio-processing treatment systems for agricultural yield enhancement, odor control, insect control, and cogeneration. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico: Natura Agricultura, S.A. d. C.V., which has conducted tests that demonstrate microbial-based increases to sugar cane production.


U.S. Microbics, Inc. operates as a business development and holding company that facilitates and develops the deployment of environmental technologies. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in two divisions, USM Solutions and USM Capital. USM Solutions division manufactures, develops, and markets proprietary microbial technologies that provide natural solutions to various environmental problems. The company's microbes or bugs can be used to break down various hydrocarbon substances, including oil, diesel fuel, methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether, Tetrachloroethene, certain toxic waste, and certain water and soil contamination. USM Capital division (UC) provides various services, including management consulting services, administrative services, and investor relations services. UC also facilitates the exchange of technologies and customers with the subsidiaries and their client companies.


Insider Buying:

Robert C Brehm
Open Market Purchase 3,000,000 09/01/2005

Boca Investments
Proposed Sale (Form 144) 314,000 08/25/2005

Conrad B Nagel
Open Market Purchase 401,679 07/26/2005


Board Of Directors:

ROBERT C. BREHM has served as our chief executive officer, president
and chairman of the board since July 1997. He also served as our vice president
from November 1996 to January 1997 and as a consultant through Robert C. Brehm
Consulting, Inc., an investment banking, investor relations and strategic
planning company. From July 1994 through the present, Mr. Brehm has served as
the president of Robert C. Brehm Consulting, Inc. From 1991 to 1994, he was the
president of Specialty Financing International, Inc., a finance procurement
company. Mr. Brehm has owned computer hardware, software, finance and consulting
companies. Mr. Brehm has a double engineering degree in electrical engineering
and computer science and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the University of
California at Berkeley.

MERY C. ROBINSON has served as a director since September 1997 and our
executive vice president and secretary since September 1997. Ms. Robinson was
appointed chief operating officer on October 1, 1998. Ms. Robinson is the
founder of XyclonyX and has served as its president and chief executive officer
since August 1997. Ms. Robinson was the president of our subsidiary, Sub-Surface
Waste Management, Inc., from 1992 to 1995 and president of Omega Resources
Management from 1995 to 1997. From 1986 to 1992, she served as the vice
president of finance and administration of Westside Telephone Systems in Santa
Monica, California, a telephone interconnect service and equipment sales
company. Ms. Robinson has held various other positions in operating and starting
up high-tech engineering and biotech companies. She received her BS in
Journalism from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a
Masters of Science in Environmental Science/Engineering from California State
University, Dominguez Hills, and has and has attended the NFWBOsponsored/
Wharton Graduate School of Business/Entrepreneurial Mini-MBA program.

ROGER K. KNIGHT has served as a director since February 1990 and our
vice president-business development since July 1997. Mr. Knight has significant
experience in identifying business candidates for acquisitions, and served as
our president from January 1995 through October 1996. Mr. Knight retired from
the U.S. Navy as a Captain in July 1965, and has been involved in retail
operations since the mid-1970s.

ROBERT H. KEY is chairman and chief executive officer of Arivest
Corporation, a real estate investment and development firm, located in Phoenix,
Arizona. Arivest Corporation is the parent corporation of Corporate Realty
Advisors, Inc., a commercial real estate brokerage firm. Mr. Key joined Arivest
Corporation as president upon its formation in April, 1979. He holds a Bachelor
of Science degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, (1972) with a
major in Business Administration. Mr. Key has been a general partner, real
estate broker, consultant or developer of a large number of commercial real
estate projects.

MARK A. HOLMSTEDT has 23 years of public finance experience covering a
variety of specialty areas. Mr. Holmstedt began his investment banking tenure
with Blyth Eastman Dillon Co. (now PaineWebber) and was the director in charge
of Bear Stearns Public Finance Department in Los Angeles prior to becoming a
principal of Westhoff, Cone Holmstedt. He has a particular expertise in
project financings and land secured transactions which involve the sale of
securities through the use of an assessment district, redevelopment agency,
community facilities district or combination thereof. Mr. Holmstedt graduated
with honors in Business Management and Finance from the University of
California, Davis.

CONRAD NAGEL has served as our chief financial officer since July 1998
and a director of Sub Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.,since July
2003. Mr. Nagel was previously hired as the chief financial officer of Global
Venture Funding, Inc. in April 1997, and served us as a consultant from
September 15, 1997 through June 1998. Mr. Nagel has an MS degree in Accounting,
University of Kansas (1964), a BS degree in Business, University of Kansas
(1963) and has been a CPA since 1966. Mr. Nagel has been associated with SEC

work, auditing, and finance operations for the past 30 years including audit
manager for Touche Ross (now Deloitte Touche), vice president of finance of
Decision Incorporated, internal audit manager for Kaiser Aetna, Chief Financial
Officer for Calusa Financial Medical, Inc., vice president of finance for
Medical Capital Corporation and over 15 years CPA practice specializing in
taxation and SEC work.

-------------------------------------------------

This is a no nonsense company..
The talent just within the board directors is outstanding in a OTCBB..


-------------------------------------------------

Huge contacts being signed with the Mexican government.

Contracts will come in the USA..

This is a taylor made company for the clean up in the disaster area.

BUGS has re-newed Patents..

The Microbes are ready and safe for clean up of contaminated water..Both fresh and salt water.

They will be used in the clean up of sludge, sewage, Oil and gas any number of differant chemicals..

BUGS is as strong as an Ox!!

BUGS will attract an entirely differant group of investors

We will see a growing group of first time buyers in the OTCBB'S,,These types of investors are generaly of the the higher class types who with disposable income will buy and hold for the long term position...

As news spreads people will be funding they're accounts with additional funds and the slack period will present us with good buying oppertunities..

I see a 10 bagger here at minimum..

Remember,,, the disaster area is 90,000 square miles. Thats a lot of contaminated area that by law will have to be cleaned up.

RVNO ran 1000% on big volume, BUGS can eat RNVO for lunch..HEHE couldn't resist..

[ September 11, 2005, 12:40: Message edited by: Dustoff101 ]
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Yep, We've actually got a solid patented products with BUGS.
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
BUGS.............................................09/09/05 0.0749 0.0749 0.0560 0.0610 -0.0090 24325199 -12.86%


Composite Indicator -- Signal -- -- Strength -- -- Direction --
Trend Spotter (TM) Buy Strong Strengthening

Short Term Indicators
7 Day Average Directional Indicator Buy Strong Weakest
10 - 8 Day Moving Average Hilo Channel Buy Strong Strengthening
20 Day Moving Average vs Price Buy Strong Strengthening
20 - 50 Day MACD Oscillator Buy Maximum Strongest
20 Day Bollinger Bands Buy Weak Weakest

Short Term Indicators Average: 100% - Buy

Medium Term Indicators
40 Day Commodity Channel Index Buy Weak Weakest
50 Day Moving Average vs Price Buy Maximum Strengthening
20 - 100 Day MACD Oscillator Buy Maximum Strongest
50 Day Parabolic Time/Price Buy Strong Strengthening

Medium Term Indicators Average: 100% - Buy

Long Term Indicators
60 Day Commodity Channel Index Buy Strong Weakest
100 Day Moving Average vs Price Buy Maximum Strengthening
50 - 100 Day MACD Oscillator Buy Weak Strongest

Long Term Indicators Average: 100% - Buy

Overall Average: 100% - Buy

------------------------------------------------

I think the smart money will be all over BUGS.

There may be a little selling into strength.

So,,that may be our oppertunity to pick up some more...

But, I wouldn't count on it to pull back.
 
Posted by jellybean on :
 
Make money on BHWK , Lose money on Bugs
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by jellybean:
Make money on BHWK , Lose money on Bugs

-------------------------------------------------
You call that a sensible Post?

I think you may do better if ya at least come up some kind of script to read if your going to Bash good stocks..
 
Posted by Jerm on :
 
LOL... in another post, jellybean posted BUGS as on of his hot picks.
 
Posted by HILANDER on :
 
jellybean, your confused LOL

[ September 11, 2005, 22:53: Message edited by: HILANDER ]
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Jerm:
LOL... in another post, jellybean posted BUGS as on of his hot picks.

-------------------------------------------------
Maybe MOMO amd company sent him a differant script...

They're always getting they're talking points screwed up..

Amatures.....
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Heads up folks, Peaser is getting conformation on a mind blowing article that will probably have a huge positive effect on BUGS.

He is working on the conformation right now..
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/091105/4.pdf
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
Related Quotes
Sym. Price Chg.
BUGS Trade
News 0.057 -0.004
SSWM Trade
News 0.195 -0.005
BUGS Offers Patented Technology to Katrina-Impacted State Agencies; Technology Could Help Clean Up Soil and Groundwater Contamination

September 12, 2005 09:15:03 (ET)


CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 12, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS, Trade) today announced its subsidiary, Sub Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (SSWM, Trade), has contacted the environmental State agencies for Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi offering to donate the use of its patented water treatment technology, Bio-GAC(TM) (Patent No: US 6,905,603 B2) for the treatment of toxic waste streams such as those caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Robert Brehm, CEO of U.S. Microbics, stated, "These State agencies will be faced with an enormous number of sites requiring cleanup of both surface water and groundwater resources impacted by toxics released during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Our companies are prepared to help the state agencies by providing this cost-effective, state-of-the-art treatment solution immediately under a royalty free technology license together with discounted engineering technical support and microbial products for use at critical contaminated sites. We will inform our shareholders on any and all interest response received from these State agencies on this treatment technology offer."

Bio-GAC(TM) is a patented water and air vapor waste stream treatment process that uses granular activated charcoal (GAC) as a filtration medium in a specially engineered process container to support live microbial products (bugs) specifically selected to degrade toxic pollutants such as those encountered in the Katrina disaster. The resulting treated effluent can in most cases be safely discharged to rivers, lakes and streams under both Federal and State regulations. The process can be used on a continual basis without replacing the GAC, thereby saving time, money and treating more toxics quickly, a key consideration for cleaning up contaminated water and soil caused by hurricane disasters.

For further information about U.S. Microbics and its technology companies, contact Bob Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or email at bob@bugsatwork.com or visit the website at http://bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: U.S. Microbics, Inc.


U.S. Microbics, Inc.
Bob Brehm, 760-918-1860, ext. 102
bob@bugsatwork.com
http://bugsatwork.com
Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Good Job Zygore! There's are news! This is just the beginning!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Keep an eye on this come 3pm
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.bugsatwork.com/07.asp
 
Posted by BuyTex on :
 
this might be helpful, all in one place:

http://bugslinks.********.com/
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
OTCPicks.com: Daily Market Movers Digest, Stock Alerts, Monday, September 12, BUGS

Sep 12, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Today our stock watch alerts today include Featured Profile for U.S. Microbics (OTCBB: BUGS)

FEATURED COMPANY PROFILE

U.S. Microbics (OTCBB: BUGS)

Detailed Quote: http://www.otcpicks.com/quotes/BUGS.php

View Company Profile at: http://www.otcpicks.com/profiles/bugs/index.php U.S. Microbics, Inc. operates as a business development and holding company that facilitates and develops the deployment of environmental technologies. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in two divisions, USM Solutions and USM Capital. USM Solutions division manufactures, develops, and markets proprietary microbial technologies that provide natural solutions to various environmental problems. The company's microbes or bugs can be used to break down various hydrocarbon substances, including oil, diesel fuel, methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether, Tetrachloroethene, certain toxic waste, and certain water and soil contamination. USM Capital division (UC) provides various services, including management consulting services, administrative services, and investor relations services. UC also facilitates the exchange of technologies and customers with the subsidiaries and their client companies. For more information on the company contact Robert Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or visit the website at http://www.bugsatwork.com
 
Posted by firefighterswct on :
 
Anyone have an idea / pricerange of where bugs maybe a month from now ive been looking at it but im not to involved so i was just trying to figurer out what you guys thoughts thanks guys!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Starting to move.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Once we find out how much the Mexican contracts were for, BUGS will be looking pretty in my portfolio. The September revenues should be good when announced.

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/RevenueEPSSummary.aspx?&symbol=BUGS&symbol=SMTR&symbol=QBID&symbol=PLNI&symbol=MCZ&symbol=PDYN&symbol=BTRX&symbol=WGFL&symbol=CHTR&symbol=&selected=BUGS
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Moved up in the afternoon to close in the green for the day, tomorrow may be good.
 
Posted by imakmony2005 on :
 
IM THERE.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Yee Haw! Today is good!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
NITE just jumped up on the bid. Might see some buys going through to the close.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Here we go. Tomorrow should be nice.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
L2's are primed for a take off tomorrow.
 
Posted by imakmony2005 on :
 
give me some down time to get back in.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
I contacted the EPA the other day about cleaning up Lake Ponchatrain. This is the response that I got from Gerald J. Filbin, Ph.D., Director:


http://www.epa.gov/ecocommunity/contactus.htm

Mr. ........:

Thank you very much for your email note regarding the situation
on the
Gulf Coast and in particular in New Orleans and Lake
Ponchatrain. I
share your concerns that the impact on Lake Ponchatrain will be
severe
and that its recovery may take a considerable amount of time
and
effort. As you've probably seen on the news over the weekend,
the EPA
Regional Office (Region 6) and the Office of Water national
program
office have a number of people in New Orleans and the other
coastal
parishes who are there to assess the impacts. Preliminary
information
indicates that there may be substantial problems with coliform
bacteria, petroleum and other chemical residues and lead. EPA
is
monitoring the water for over 100 priority pollutants.

Because the need to remove the hazard from the city and
surrounding
parishes to protect human health is so dire, EPA has allowed the
contaminated water to be pumped back into the lake. There
appear to be
no other alternatives for removing this volume of water. I
think the
hope is that natural processes in the Lake will break down
some of
the chemical contaminants before they are released into the
gulf, but I
think everyone acknowledges that at least for the present time
there
will be serious problems and hazards in Lake Ponchatrain. The
EPA
Regional office is working very hard to assess those conditions
and
advise the public about the hazards
http://www.epa.gov/katrina/testresults/chem/090305/chem2005_09_03.html

I'm not sure what may be under discussion with regard to
treating the
water in Lake Ponchatrain before it is released to the gulf.
I expect
that it would be costly and logistically difficult. Lake
Ponchatrain
water is already discharging into the gulf and some of the
contamination, no doubt is moving with it. It seems at the
moment
that the hope is that natural ecological processes and dilution
of the
pumped water, both in Lake Ponchatrain and out in the gulf will
adequately mitigate the problem over time. I think that as
the
assessments continue we may have additional information to
guide us
toward any additional steps. The driver at the moment is
restoring
safe conditions as quickly as possible for the people of New
Orleans
and the surrounding area. One of the priority steps for that
will be to
restore sanitary and drinking water treatment as quickly as
possible. I
suspect that building new infrastructure to treat the lake
water before
it discharges into the gulf might severely challenge the
resources
available to get sanitary and drinking water treatment back on
line.

I wish I had a better answer.

Jerry Filbin

---------------------------------------------------
Gerald J. Filbin, Ph.D., Director
Innovative Pilots Division (1807T)
Office of Policy, Economics and Innovation
US Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania, Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20460

202-566-2182
202-566-2211 FAX
----- Forwarded by Gerald Filbin/DC/USEPA/US on 09/12/2005 12:41
PM
-----


COMMENTS_OF_REQUESTOR

Lake Ponchatrain Clean Up


My question is, How is Lake Ponchatrain going to get cleaned up
after
they finish pumping all of this toxic materials in it? Has
anyone
thought of who is going to clean it up?

I came across one company that looks like it would be ideal for
this
situation.

U.S. Microbics
www.bugsatwork.com/

Hope this helps + God Bless,

[ September 16, 2005, 08:38: Message edited by: Peaser01 ]
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
EPA Region 6

DIVISION DIRECTORS:

Shirley Bruce, Team Leader
Outreach Team (6WQ-CO)
William B. Hathaway, Director
Water Quality Protection Division (6WQ)
US EPA Region 6
1445 Ross Ave., Suite 1200
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
214-665-8141 214-665-6490

COORDINATORS:

Debora Browning 214-665-8025
Dorothy Brown 214-665-8141


Please help me get the word out about BUGS to the right people. The more that know and hear what BUGS can do, the better chance Lake Ponchatrain can get cleaned up.
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
NEWS:

BUGS Subsidiary Prepares Cost Estimates for New Work in Mexico

September 16, 2005 09:15:01 (ET)


CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 16, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (SSWM, Trade) announced that senior engineers from its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) and representatives from its strategic alliance and teaming partner, the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), have been asked by the Mexican state oil corporation, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), to submit detailed cost estimate engineering proposals to address urgent environmental compliance and remediation needs at Pemex operating facilities. The ETI/UNAM engineering team recently completed site visits to gather data for submitting their report as soon as possible in order that work can be commenced.

Representatives of ETI will be joining Governor Mario Marin Torres in his scheduled meeting Monday, September 19 with Pemex's President Mr. Luis Ramirez Corzo to discuss proposed remediation activities and a financing plan to address recent and historic releases of petroleum products from pipelines and bulk terminal facilities in the State of Puebla.

As previously reported, ETI will be responsible for restoration activities on contaminated areas including farming lands, rivers and water reservoirs in Puebla working through Governor Mario Marin Torres and his Secretary for the Ministry of Environment.

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS, Trade) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect," or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.


Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.
Alan Kau, 888-795-3166
http://www.bugsatwork.com/19.asp
Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
I just bought a bunch more at .043.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Governor of the State of Puebla, Mexico Directs the National Autonomous University of Mexico to Fund SSWM Subsidiary Projects
Thursday September 8, 9:45 am ET


CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 2005--Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM - News), announced that its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) was named specifically in an official correspondence dated September 1, 2005 signed by Governor Mario Marin Torres of the State of Puebla, Mexico directing ETI strategic alliance and teaming partner the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to provide immediate funding for engineering assessment and remediation of hydrocarbon discharges due to antiquated pipelines and storage tank farms. The recent Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipeline spills in Puebla have accounted for the contamination of hundreds of acres of productive farming land, rivers and lakes.
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Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM stated, "In the Governor's letter UNAM was also instructed to work with ETI to form an Emergency Response Center in Puebla coordinating with the State's Ministry of Environment to train specialized environmental Engineers and Technicians to respond to future spills of hydrocarbons in the State."

On Friday September 2, 2005 Governor Mario Marin Torres held a press conference covered by local and national media reprimanding Pemex, the state owned oil company, for the irresponsible management of their petroleum pipelines in Mexico, specifically in the states of Puebla, Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche. The following day, September 3, 2005, Mexico's leading newspaper -- The Reforma -- quoted the Governor as he stated that the three most recent spills of crude oil and gasoline have contaminated water reservoirs, farm lands and rivers, in some cases impacting up to hundreds of acres.

Governor Mario Marin Torres has formed an alliance with the governors of Veracruz, Mr. Fidel Herrera, Tabasco, Mr. Manuel Andrade and Campeche, Mr. Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez, to ensure immediate restoration and remediation of the areas affected with Pemex's crude oil and gasoline releases, as these states have experienced hundreds of hydrocarbons spills during this year.

Governor Mario Marin Torres has requested an immediate meeting with the President of Pemex, Mr. Luis Ramirez Corzo to obtain Pemex's immediate acceptance of these remediation activities and their financial support for the same.

Environmental Tech International will be responsible for the majority of the restoration activities vis-a-vis these contaminated areas, i.e.: farming lands, rivers and water reservoirs in Puebla working through Governor Mario Marin Torres and his Secretary for the Ministry of Environment.

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS - News) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact:
Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.
Alan Kau, 888-795-3166
http://www.bugsatwork.com/19.asp


It's nice to know that the Mexican Government has all ready ok'ed the funding for the work that BUGS will be doing in Mexico to clean it up. Now we just need to know how much BUGS will be getting in these contracts.

1 $10 million contract = about .20 in Price Per Share
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
$20 million in Mexican Contracts = about $.40 pps

[Eek!]
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
As of Monday Sept 12th:

"FEMA already is sending more than $100 million to reimburse the city for recovery expenses, and the city is close to signing a number of contracts for the work, Nagin said. The city’s only final contract as of Monday was for a waste-management company to clear debris."

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09_12.html
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Just turned up off the low!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
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Posted by maumee river rat on :
 
Hey! Peaser!!!!

The Perch on this side of the pond are HITTEN GOOOOD!!!!!

whats up man?????

hehehe
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
How's it going maumee. Long time no see.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Might bounce off of 50 RSI today or tomorrow.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
MM's look as if they have formed the bottom, and starting to see liqudity building on the ask finally.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
MM games, they want some shares. I wish I was an insider and knew what they did about BUGS.
 
Posted by maumee river rat on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Peaser01:
MM games, they want some shares. I wish I was an insider and knew what they did about BUGS.

That blue shampoo always worked for me!!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
CEOCFO: Will you tell us about the magnitude of the environmental problem in Mexico?
Mr. Brehm: “The magnitude of the problem is significant. PEMEX, the Mexican National Oil Company, which provides approximately 80% of the revenue for the entire country, wants to spend about $3 billion dollars over the next five years to clean up their mess. They have currently allocated about $1.1 billion to do that. Currently, there are very few vendors who tap into that funding. We have been given the opportunity, by meeting with the top officials in the PEMEX subsidiaries, to pick prime projects that are of deep concern. We expect significant project revenue over the next couple of years from both PEMEX work and State government work related to the environment. throughout Mexico. It is interesting to note that most of Mexican water is classified as contaminated in different degrees of contamination. There appears to be very few areas classified as “clean water” in the country, and that is why most of us in the U.S. that go down and drink the water, get sick. Therefore, BUGS is going to help solve that problem for the locals and for tourists.”


CEOCFO: Is there any direct competition?
Mr. Brehm: “When you clean up contamination, there are three ways to do it; we call it the three B’s, you burn it bury it or bug it. Typically if you want to get rid of contamination in soil, you dig it up, put it in the incinerator and burn it. That is being phased out, although it is still popular in Asia, but causes massive air pollution. The second method is to dig it up, put it in someone else’s backyard; that it what is done with landfills. In Mexico and other countries, they are realizing that hydrocarbons are all hazardous materials and you cannot put them in landfills anymore and you cannot burn them. There is only one effective method to get rid of contamination and that is called Bugging it (also called bioremediation). The process is fairly simple to understand; you put Mother Nature’s natural bacteria in a recipe on the contaminate and what they do is literally eat it up and the excrete carbon dioxide and water. Over time, the contamination will be completely gone. Mother Nature can do that in approximately 50 to 100 years, and we typically do it in a period of less than a year. That is the way Mexico has decided to do the majority of their waste treatment. The technology has to be approved by Mexico. Currently, we are the only known bio remediation company that has an approved technology down there. There will be more. People have not figured out how to get approved and do business in Mexico. We have been able to go to the highest levels and work ourselves down the chain rather than up the chain. As a result, there are classical competitors that only offer the classical solutions, which is bury and burn. We probably won’t see much competition over the next few years as we have an opportunity to be first in the market and to make sure our solution is the one of choice. Any environmental clean-up process that is approved in Mexico is usually approved throughout Central and South America. Magazines and financial reporting news agencies in South America do interviews with us to see how our technology can be used in their country.”

http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/USMicrobics05.htm
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
“Mexico in 2004 enacted the similar environmental laws that we enacted back in the 1970’s in the U.S., and created their own Environmental Protection Agency. They now want to enforce these environmental laws according to their agreements under NAFTA and The World Trade Organization treaties. However, they do not want to repeat all of the problems that have plagued the U.S. environmental market over the last thirty years, so they have taken a fresh look and decided to implement technologies that have been approved by their EPA and BUGS is one of the first five approved clean-up technologies and the only known biotechnology solution. We have been invited down to Mexico to put together an environmental plan for the entire country. We are in the process of doing that so they can accurately assess what their problem is, determine the magnitude and figure out a solution that will solve it which is cost effective and environmentally friendly. Our technology and our engineering services interact perfectly with that concept so I think we are going to have a bright future in Mexico.” - Robert Brehm

http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/USMicrobics05.htm
 
Posted by InForTheKill on :
 
Not quite time to buy BUGS, but its getting close.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Peaser01:
CEOCFO: Will you tell us about the magnitude of the environmental problem in Mexico?
Mr. Brehm: “The magnitude of the problem is significant. PEMEX, the Mexican National Oil Company, which provides approximately 80% of the revenue for the entire country, wants to spend about $3 billion dollars over the next five years to clean up their mess. They have currently allocated about $1.1 billion to do that. Currently, there are very few vendors who tap into that funding. We have been given the opportunity, by meeting with the top officials in the PEMEX subsidiaries, to pick prime projects that are of deep concern. We expect significant project revenue over the next couple of years from both PEMEX work and State government work related to the environment. throughout Mexico. It is interesting to note that most of Mexican water is classified as contaminated in different degrees of contamination. There appears to be very few areas classified as “clean water” in the country, and that is why most of us in the U.S. that go down and drink the water, get sick. Therefore, BUGS is going to help solve that problem for the locals and for tourists.”


CEOCFO: Is there any direct competition?
Mr. Brehm: “When you clean up contamination, there are three ways to do it; we call it the three B’s, you burn it bury it or bug it. Typically if you want to get rid of contamination in soil, you dig it up, put it in the incinerator and burn it. That is being phased out, although it is still popular in Asia, but causes massive air pollution. The second method is to dig it up, put it in someone else’s backyard; that it what is done with landfills. In Mexico and other countries, they are realizing that hydrocarbons are all hazardous materials and you cannot put them in landfills anymore and you cannot burn them. There is only one effective method to get rid of contamination and that is called Bugging it (also called bioremediation). The process is fairly simple to understand; you put Mother Nature’s natural bacteria in a recipe on the contaminate and what they do is literally eat it up and the excrete carbon dioxide and water. Over time, the contamination will be completely gone. Mother Nature can do that in approximately 50 to 100 years, and we typically do it in a period of less than a year. That is the way Mexico has decided to do the majority of their waste treatment. The technology has to be approved by Mexico. Currently, we are the only known bio remediation company that has an approved technology down there. There will be more. People have not figured out how to get approved and do business in Mexico. We have been able to go to the highest levels and work ourselves down the chain rather than up the chain. As a result, there are classical competitors that only offer the classical solutions, which is bury and burn. We probably won’t see much competition over the next few years as we have an opportunity to be first in the market and to make sure our solution is the one of choice. Any environmental clean-up process that is approved in Mexico is usually approved throughout Central and South America. Magazines and financial reporting news agencies in South America do interviews with us to see how our technology can be used in their country.”

http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/USMicrobics05.htm

The announcement of the estimates is right around the corner.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Dusty just told me of the PR announced. It's on the Hot Stocks Thread.
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
By BusinessWire
Last Update: 9/21/2005 9:45:01 AM Data provided by

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 21, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS) said today that it is discussing the possibility of reactivating its interest in the GaeaCare technology it helped pioneer in 2002 with Sub-Surface Waste Management, Inc. (SSWM), a ten percent shareholder of GaeaCare, and other technology partners for on-site facility vigilance and response for sudden and catastrophic toxic and hazardous material releases to both air and water resources. The company has been dormant for several years, but with the recent purchase by Winsted Holdings, Inc. there may be another opportunity to bring this vital technology to market for natural disasters such as the current wave of hurricanes slamming the U.S. borderline.

GaeaCare was originally planning to commence operations as a worldwide provider of 24/7 on-site facility vigilance and response for sudden and catastrophic toxic and hazardous material releases to both air and water resources. The protected facilities would be able to immediately alert emergency agencies to sudden airborne and/or surface toxic chemical releases and simultaneously begin to reduce potentially deadly effects of any gaseous cloud using naturally occurring microbial blends sprayed with water and fire retardants to precipitate toxics from the air and/or water using an enhanced proprietary formulation of nature's biological process to covert toxic materials into harmless CO2 and water. For more information on GaeaCare visit www.ags-gaeacare.com.

"Cutting edge environmental engineering applications with biotechnology solutions are the hallmark of the GaeaCare systems which can be applicable to petroleum & petrochemical refiners, bulk storage tank and pipeline operators, mining, manufacturing, power & munitions plants, government environmental agencies, military installations and Homeland Defense Security Agencies," said Bruce S. Beattie, President of SSWM. "SSWM can provide both the environmental engineering and biotechnology product solutions to enable GaeaCare to capture emissions either airborne or surface released and immediately apply proprietary, all natural, non-genetically engineered microbial blends that accelerate the process of turning harmful toxics into simple CO2 and water. SSWM environmental biotechnology solutions are directly applicable and eagerly being sought by the international market where cost-effective and reasonably rapid treatment solutions are in great demand in response to both World Trade Organization and ISO conventions for strict environmental compliance as a requirement for access to consumer markets."

Robert Brehm, BUGS CEO commented, "We welcome the new owners and their renewed interest in GaeaCare and fully support their efforts to bring this valuable disaster response technology to market with our technical support."

For further information about U.S. Microbics and its technology companies, contact Robert Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or email at bob@bugsatwork.com or visit the website at http://bugsatwork.com.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by InForTheKill:
Not quite time to buy BUGS, but its getting close.

LOL
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
Guess you picked a bad time to post that comment Infor
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/USMicrobics05.htm

CEOCFO: Are you working with partnerships in other countries as well?
Mr. Brehm: “Yes, we have announced a partnership in Germany and they are currently looking to get bids on particular projects. We have also announced a partnership with C-TRADE USA, with a joint venture company called Worldwide Water Systems and that is to put pure water machines in various countries around the world. That project is moving along too, so the partnership concept has worked well for us because it gives the people in the country the ability to control their own destiny with superior U.S. technology and project management techniques, which most countries do not have. It is very exciting, both emotionally as we help others and financially as we see the company grow and prosper for our shareholders. It has taken us a long time to find which market our technology is readily accepted. It turns out it is our neighbor to the south.”
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Hmmm? Is it gonna run again today? My guess is yes.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
BUGS and Winsted to Collaborate on GaeaCare Future; Companies Join Efforts to Bring Proactive Environmental Protection Technology to Nation Now

September 22, 2005 09:45:01 (ET)


CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 22, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Robert Brehm, CEO of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS, Trade), said today that he is discussing key strategic business strategy with Mark Ellis, CEO of Winsted Holdings, Inc. (WHLI, Trade), a Business Development Company (BDC), which recently announced the purchase of 90% of GaeaCare Syndicate Partners, Inc. BUGS subsidiary, Sub-Surface Waste Management (SSWM, Trade) is a 10% shareholder of GaeaCare and a contributing technical syndicate partner.

Brehm commented on his discussion with Ellis, "We both believe there could be a significant business opportunity for GaeaCare as a proactive environmental products and services corporation that intends to become a leading environmental cleanup, emergency response and environmental remediation company by the use of new computer systems technology, sensor technology, communications technology, systems concepts and microbial environmental cleanup treatment to serve the Homeland Security and environmental industries. The SSWM engineering and project management expertise coupled with the management resources and governmental agency contacts of WHLI could enable GaeaCare to obtain grants or emergency funding to help mitigate some of the consequences of natural disasters like the hurricanes currently pounding the U.S. coast."

Brehm continued, "I will continue my dialogue with Mark Ellis to determine what course of action would be appropriate for GaeaCare given our common resources, government contacts and strategic abilities. We have spent a lot of time and money in the past creating the business plan and developing strategic partners, and I feel we have both a moral obligation, as environmental stewards, as well as a financial incentive to bring this proactive environmental solution to the nation now rather than later." For more information on GaeaCare, visit www.ags-gaeacare.com.

For further information about U.S. Microbics and its technology companies, contact Robert Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or email at bob@bugsatwork.com or visit the website at http://bugsatwork.com. For further information about Winsted Holdings call Investor Relations at 949-476-3711 or visit the company website at http://www.winstedholdings.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the U.S. Microbics' status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: U.S. Microbics, Inc.


U.S. Microbics, Inc.
Robert Brehm, 760-918-1860, ext. 102
bob@bugsatwork.com
http://bugsatwork.com
Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS) traded as much as 12.5% over open on Thursday.

U.S. Microbics, Inc. operates as a business development and holding company that facilitates and develops the deployment of environmental technologies. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in two divisions, USM Solutions and USM Capital. USM Solutions division manufactures, develops, and markets proprietary microbial technologies that provide natural solutions to various environmental problems. The company's microbes or bugs can be used to break down various hydrocarbon substances, including oil, diesel fuel, methyl tertiary butyl ether, Tetrachloroethene, certain toxic waste, and certain water and soil contamination. USM Capital division (UC) provides various services, including management consulting services, administrative services, and investor relations services. UC also facilitates the exchange of technologies and customers with the subsidiaries and their client companies.

provided by marketwatch.com
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Huge oil and chemical slicks all over Southern Louisiana caused by Hurricane Rita..

Their will be powerful political forces at work to clean this area up..People take they're farm land very seriously and you can bet they will clean it up..

Good agricultural land is at a premium and is a politically hot issue..

This is a made for order situation for BUGS....

The people in power are already speaking of a 30 year plan for clean up and restoration..
 
Posted by DIGDOUGH on :
 
BUGS, good movie saw it twice. I might even wath it tonight.

Just kidding
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by DIGDOUGH:
BUGS, good movie saw it twice. I might even wath it tonight.

Just kidding

-------------------------------------------------
Be nice! Microbes can eat anything.....
Sick-um LOL j/k
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
An Army of microbes on the move.......
Millions of microbes cleaning the World!

Wonder what would happen if we turned um loose on the PINKS?

GO BUGS
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
If microbes can clean up my neighbors septic tank.

They can clean up anything!

GO BUGS
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
BUGS.......Microbes are your freinds.
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Microbes eat things that cause Cancer..

GO BUGS
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Microbes eat sewage and waste oil..
Got BUGS?
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Microbes work 24/7

They don't get hangovers and not show up for work.

They feed themselves,
and turn waste into harmless gas....

BUGS for our future!
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
expect news!
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
MSNBC News

Friday 16 September 2005
44 oil spills found in LA
Largest is nearly 4 million gallons, most big ones are on Mississippi River.

More than 500 specialists are working to clean up 44 OIL SPILLS ranging from several hundred gallons to nearly 4 million gallons, the US Coast Guard said in an assessment that goes far beyond initial reports of just two significant SPILLS.

The report comes nearly three weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, and reflects the fact that the Coast Guard and other agencies are able to only now tackle environmental problems since the search and rescue effort is winding down.

The Coast Guard estimates more than 7 million gallons of OIL were spilled from industrial plants, storage depots and other facilities around southeast Louisiana.

That is about two-thirds as much OIL as spilled from the Exxon Valdez tanker in 1989. But unlike the OIL from the Valdez, which poured from a single source, these OIL SPILLS are scattered at sites throughout southeast Louisiana.

The OIL could threaten the region's fragile coastal marshes, but three-quarters of it was not posing a danger to wetlands, the Coast Guard said, noting that more than 1.3 million gallons had evaporated or dispersed.

Crews had recovered nearly 2 million gallons and had contained another 2.3 million gallons behind booms and other barriers, the Coast Guard said.

Activists ‘Very Concerned'

The Louisiana Environmental Action Network said it remains concerned given how late the cleanup began and what's known so far.

"We're very concerned," executive director Marylee Orr told MSNBC.com. "We're watching the limited data that has come out."

Of particular concern is a spill in Mereax, a town just outside New Orleans on the Mississippi River, where OIL mixed with floodwaters and sediment to submerge hundreds of homes.

Orr said people calling to report problems have been urged to document them until remediation begins.

The combination of sewage, chemicals, OIL and other pollutants is an environmental disaster of "epic proportions," Orr said.

No one knows what that "toxic gumbo does to the human body when its exposed at the same time."

In the case of OIL SPILLS, the state's Department of Environmental Quality had reported just two significant cases, the one in Meraux and another in Venice.

Below are the largest known SPILLS, most of them along the Mississippi River south of New Orleans.

Major SPILLS (Over 100,000 Gallons)

Bass Enterprises Production Company (Cox Bay): About 3.78 million gallons discharged, of which 960,000 gallons were recovered, 2 million gallons were contained and 982,000 gallons evaporated.

Shell (Pilot Town): About 1.05 million gallons discharged, of which about 718,000 gallons were recovered, 129,000 were contained and 105,000 gallons evaporated or dispersed. Some 87,000 gallons have not been contained.

Chevron (Empire): About 991,000 gallons were released, of which 983,000 gallons were naturally dispersed or evaporated, 4,000 gallons were recovered and 3,600 gallons were contained.

Murphy OIL Corporation (Meraux): About 819,000 gallons discharged, of which 305,000 were recovered, 196,000 gallons were contained and 312,000 gallons evaporated. Some 6,000 gallons were not recovered.

Bass Enterprises (Point a la Hache): About 461,000 gallons of OIL discharged, of which half was contained and half evaporated.

Medium SPILLS (10,000 to 100,000 Gallons)

Chevron (Port Fourchon): About 53,000 gallons were released, of which 21,000 gallons were naturally dispersed, 26,000 gallons were recovered and 420 gallons were contained.

Venice Energy Services Company (Venice): About 840,000 gallons of potential discharge are enclosed in bermed and boomed area, but only 25,000 gallons were actually discharged, of which 4,800 gallons were recovered.

Shell Pipeline OIL (Nairn): About 13,440 gallons discharged, of which 126 gallons were recovered, 2,940 gallons were contained and 10,500 gallons reached shoreline.

Sundown Energy (West Potash): About 13,000 gallons discharged, of which 153 gallons were recovered, 2,000 gallons were contained, and 5,000 gallons reached shoreline.
 
Posted by kywee on :
 
CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 26, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Robert Brehm, CEO of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS), announced that BUGS has published a new website at www.bugsatwork.com to bring the company's innovative environmental clean-up solutions to international customers seeking to solve their country's environmental problems using local resources and labor with the help of BUGS' engineering services, proprietary products and patented processes.

Brehm commented on the driving force behind the efforts, "As our world population grows and per capita resources are shrinking, innovative methods to provide clean air, soil and water are being sought out by many third world countries where environmental priorities have been ignored but now must be addressed to be in compliance with World Trade organization policies. Over the past year we have had many inquiries from countries that need to clean up environmental contamination impacting their water supplies and causing sickness, disease and poverty conditions. In response to this pressing need, BUGS created a multi-language website that educates potential customers, including in-country engineering teams, how to develop their skills on assessment, quantification and treatment of the problem using our technology, project management and engineering skills."

Brehm concluded, "With the success of our business model in Mexico, it is important that the people of Mexico understand, in their language, how we can help them solve their environmental problems using local expertise under the supervision of our engineering teams. This new website helps in that endeavor and could open up new avenues for revenue in the future."

About U.S. Microbics Inc.

U.S. Microbics is a business development and holding company that acquires, develops and deploys innovative environmental technologies for soil, groundwater and carbon remediation, air pollution reduction, modular drinking water systems, and agriculture enhancement. For more information on the company or its Strategic Partner Program, contact Robert Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or visit the website at http://bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect," or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: U.S. Microbics Inc.

U.S. Microbics Inc. Robert Brehm, 760-918-1860 x102

Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
CEOCFO: Will you tell us about the magnitude of the environmental problem in Mexico?
Mr. Brehm: “The magnitude of the problem is significant. PEMEX, the Mexican National Oil Company, which provides approximately 80% of the revenue for the entire country, wants to spend about $3 billion dollars over the next five years to clean up their mess. They have currently allocated about $1.1 billion to do that. Currently, there are very few vendors who tap into that funding. We have been given the opportunity, by meeting with the top officials in the PEMEX subsidiaries, to pick prime projects that are of deep concern. We expect significant project revenue over the next couple of years from both PEMEX work and State government work related to the environment. throughout Mexico. It is interesting to note that most of Mexican water is classified as contaminated in different degrees of contamination. There appears to be very few areas classified as “clean water” in the country, and that is why most of us in the U.S. that go down and drink the water, get sick. Therefore, BUGS is going to help solve that problem for the locals and for tourists.”


CEOCFO: Is there any direct competition?
Mr. Brehm: “When you clean up contamination, there are three ways to do it; we call it the three B’s, you burn it bury it or bug it. Typically if you want to get rid of contamination in soil, you dig it up, put it in the incinerator and burn it. That is being phased out, although it is still popular in Asia, but causes massive air pollution. The second method is to dig it up, put it in someone else’s backyard; that it what is done with landfills. In Mexico and other countries, they are realizing that hydrocarbons are all hazardous materials and you cannot put them in landfills anymore and you cannot burn them. There is only one effective method to get rid of contamination and that is called Bugging it (also called bioremediation). The process is fairly simple to understand; you put Mother Nature’s natural bacteria in a recipe on the contaminate and what they do is literally eat it up and the excrete carbon dioxide and water. Over time, the contamination will be completely gone. Mother Nature can do that in approximately 50 to 100 years, and we typically do it in a period of less than a year. That is the way Mexico has decided to do the majority of their waste treatment. The technology has to be approved by Mexico. Currently, we are the only known bio remediation company that has an approved technology down there. There will be more. People have not figured out how to get approved and do business in Mexico. We have been able to go to the highest levels and work ourselves down the chain rather than up the chain. As a result, there are classical competitors that only offer the classical solutions, which is bury and burn. We probably won’t see much competition over the next few years as we have an opportunity to be first in the market and to make sure our solution is the one of choice. Any environmental clean-up process that is approved in Mexico is usually approved throughout Central and South America. Magazines and financial reporting news agencies in South America do interviews with us to see how our technology can be used in their country.”

http://www.ceocfointerviews.com/interviews/USMicrobics05.htm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
BUGS and SSWM End Fiscal Year 2005 on Upbeat Note; Record 2005 Revenues and International Opportunities Prelude to 2006 SuccessadvertisementRelated information E-mail this article Print-friendly versionStocks mentioned in this articleU S MICROBICS(BUGS) Quote, Chart, News SUB SURFACE WST MGMT DELA(SSWM) Quote, Chart, News Related topicsEarnings Reports


All Business Wire NewsRobert Brehm, CEO of U.S. Microbics, Inc. BUGS (BCN:615212), an innovative environmental products and services company, announced that BUGS has completed FY 2005 with record-breaking revenues and backlog, new patented technology, a new website, and new business opportunities in Mexico that sets the pace for an optimistic FY 2006 that should bring the company's innovative environmental clean-up solutions to international customers seeking to solve their country's environmental problems using local resources and labor with the help of BUGS' engineering services, proprietary products and patented processes.


Brehm commented on the FY2005 accomplishments, "2005 has been an exciting year with many accomplishments and I am proud to be associated with a group of loyal employees who understand the wisdom and commitment we have in making the world a better place using mother nature's technology applied with engineering precision."

Brehm added, "The Mexico operations, under the guidance of Sub-Surface Waste Management SSWM, continued to generate record-breaking revenues each quarter this fiscal year (up 82% in first 3 months, 129% in six months, and 334% in nine months compared to prior year), indicating improved market acceptance of our technology and services. We expect revenues to further increase as we complete existing contracts and receive additional contracts in Mexico." A recent interview given by Mr. Brehm including an update on progress in Mexico is available at www.CEOCFOinterviews.com.

Brehm continued, "As our world population grows and per capita resources are shrinking, innovative methods to provide clean air, soil and water are being sought out by many second and third world countries where environmental priorities have been ignored but now must be addressed to be in compliance with World Trade organization policies and public healthcare concerns. Over the past year we have had many inquiries from countries that need to clean up environmental contamination impacting their water supplies and causing sickness, disease and poverty conditions. In response to this pressing need, BUGS created a multi-language website at www.bugsatwork.com that educates potential customers, including in-country engineering teams, on developing their skills on assessment, quantification and treatment of the problem using our technology, project management and engineering skills.

"Our research and field development team was also busy this year as it had published its patented water treatment technology, Bio-GAC(TM) (Patent No: US 6,905,603 B2) for the treatment of toxic waste streams such as those caused by Hurricane Katrina and other man-made and natural disasters. We expect to license this technology in 2006 and use it in our own projects," added Brehm.

Speaking on customer education, Brehm said, "This year we created coloring books and comic books in English and Spanish for both the environmental newbie and kids at www.MikeyMicrobe.com. Coupled with our new BUGS website, these two websites allow potential investors, customers and clients and interested parties new insight into our technology, our management and our success in cleaning up the world."

Brehm commented on the increased share price and investor interest by saying, "After many years of hard effort by all our dedicated employees, I have never seen this level of investment community interest in our future potential. It seems like we are getting many offers and proposals for new business opportunities, financing alternatives, potential mergers or acquisitions, new technologies to license or just new investment by existing shareholders. If we maintain our current growth rate, we anticipate being cash-flow positive within the next twelve months, opening up new opportunities for growth and stock appreciation."

About U.S. Microbics Inc.

U.S. Microbics is a business development and holding company that acquires, develops and deploys innovative environmental technologies for soil, groundwater and carbon remediation, air pollution reduction, modular drinking water systems, and agriculture enhancement. For more information on the company or its Strategic Partner Program, contact Robert Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or visit the website at http://www.bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect," or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

Contact Information: U.S. Microbics Inc. Robert Brehm, 760-918-1860 x102

http://www.bugsatwork.com.

© 2005 BusinessWire

[ September 30, 2005, 10:22: Message edited by: Peaser01 ]
 
Posted by OnPoint on :
 
Breaking out - just we thru .042/.043
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Yepp. And we're off to the races! Yee haw!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Nice buying opp on this dip.
 
Posted by Superbee383 on :
 
I have to say this.. I don't understand why this one is at a standstill. I thought the news was great! Did I miss something there?
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
.04x.041 now

Anyone miss that dip?
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Bid building at .04
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
We had a nice 20% day on Friday.

Still waiting on the Big PR announcing the estimates that BUGS has put together for PEMEX, also the announcement of contracts won.

BUGS Subsidiary Prepares Cost Estimates for New Work in Mexico

CARLSBAD, Calif., Sep 16, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM) announced that senior engineers from its Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) and representatives from its strategic alliance and teaming partner, the Zaragoza Graduate School of Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), have been asked by the Mexican state oil corporation, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), to submit detailed cost estimate engineering proposals to address urgent environmental compliance and remediation needs at Pemex operating facilities. The ETI/UNAM engineering team recently completed site visits to gather data for submitting their report as soon as possible in order that work can be commenced.

Operationally, U.S. Microbics consists of six majority-owned subsidiaries using biological technology to revolutionize environmental clean-up and agricultural growth.

Representatives of ETI will be joining Governor Mario Marin Torres in his scheduled meeting Monday, September 19 with Pemex's President Mr. Luis Ramirez Corzo to discuss proposed remediation activities and a financing plan to address recent and historic releases of petroleum products from pipelines and bulk terminal facilities in the State of Puebla.

As previously reported, ETI will be responsible for restoration activities on contaminated areas including farming lands, rivers and water reservoirs in Puebla working through Governor Mario Marin Torres and his Secretary for the Ministry of Environment.

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

1. Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware Inc. (SSWM) - provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services. Sub-Surface Waste Management's team designs, permits, builds, and operates environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological, and filtration technologies.

2. XyclonyX - develops and applies its key technologies that include patents, proprietary knowledge, products, processes, and expert personnel. XyclonyX technologies are sold to the environmental, petrochemical, agricultural, and waste treatment markets. XyclonyX has developed a formulation for mass producing proprietary microbial blends in liquid and powder forms.

3. West Coast Fermentation Center, Inc. (WCFC) - cultivates microbial cultures for the Company's product lines: Bi-Agra Remediline and Wasteline. WCFC operates a microbe laboratory, pilot plant, and quality control center. WCFC produces microbial blends using fermentation technology, powder blending, and combinatorial liquifaction.

4. Sol Tech, Inc. (doing business as Wasteline Performance Corp.) - was formed specifically to serve markets for treating wastewater in the U.S.A. and internationally.

5. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. - provides microbial blends and bio-processing treatment systems for agricultural yield enhancement, odor control, insect control, and cogeneration. Bio-Con Microbes, Inc. has a wholly owned subsidiary in Mexico: Natura Agricultura, S.A. d. C.V., which has conducted tests that demonstrate microbial-based increases to sugar cane production.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
http://www.bugsatwork.com/CEOinterview.pdf
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Doing a proper evaluation at this time is speculative at best...

However the reason we are long, or short term, swing players or what ever is because we believe others will buy this stock because they think it will make them money....

A belief system is crucial in any OTCBB or any other stock..A strong belief will hopefully cause people to buy and hold..

The due diligence being done on this thread and on other boards is of a very high quality..

This makes me think the quality of the investors is good -high...

So, the more stable type of long is coming on board, this will translate to the stock holding at progressivly higher bottoms..

The problem with that is, trying to flip the stock may cost you dearly..Because to get back in you may have to pay more than you sold at. And that will really screw up your cost average..

If ya need a number to sink your teeth into-------- I like .10 increase in PPS for every $10,000,000.00 contract.

That does not take into account bubble spikes in buying...

The A/S at 500mil is a healthy amount and I really like it..The under 280mil O/S is just about right if we do indeed start heading for the Nasdaq..
 
Posted by imakmony2005 on :
 
THE RUN IS COMING............
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Good bugs' cleaning up water tainted with MTBE

Microscopic critters gobble gunk from millions of gallons or else

By Kerry Cavanaugh, Staff Writer

NORTH HOLLYWOOD -- To clean up a massive plume of MTBE in Los Angeles' drinking water supply, scientists have produced trillions of tiny "bugs" that feed on the toxic gasoline additive and leave the water pure enough to return to the aquifer.

The project is the first of its kind in Los Angeles, and officials rave that the superefficient microbes will restore millions of gallons of precious San Fernando Valley groundwater, which provides 10 percent of the city's drinking supply.

"This is exciting because we're saving the water, and water is precious in the region," said Yue Rong, a senior environmental scientist with the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Scientists expect MTBE-gobbling bacteria will become a cheaper, safer way to clean up groundwater contamination.

MTBE -- methyl tertiary butyl ether -- was added to gasoline beginning in 1979 to cut air pollution. Extremely water-soluble, MTBE tainted water supplies with its distinct turpentine taste and odor when underground gasoline storage tanks leaked into groundwater.

An estimated 2,300 water systems in 36 states have been contaminated by MTBE, according to a June report from the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies. California stopped using the chemical in 2004.

In North Hollywood, the former Fast Fuel Service Station at Victory and Vineland boulevards leaked thousands of gallons of gasoline into the groundwater before going out of business, leaving oil company Tesoro with the cleanup.

Tesoro found a thick layer of gasoline floating on the groundwater and MTBE levels up to 100,000 parts per billion. The acceptable limit for drinking is 5 ppb.

More troubling, the massive plume of MTBE was migrating toward Los Angeles Department of Water and Power wells. The utility shut down two of the wells for fear of pulling the chemical even closer.

The contamination was so severe that Tesoro probably would have had to buy property in the residential neighborhood and build a water-treatment plant if a better cleanup method had not been found, said Jeffrey Baker, environmental remediation supervisor for Tesoro.

Instead, Baker and the company's consultant, Haley & Aldrich, sought the help of Kate Scow, a soil-science professor at the University of California, Davis, and graduate student Kristin Hicks. Scientists in their lab had discovered a microbes strain called PM1 that feeds on MTBE, destroying the molecule and leaving carbon dioxide behind.

PM1 is found naturally in the groundwater. To accelerate the bug's natural hunger for MTBE, experts cultivate the bacteria inside carbon filters -- similar to the filters found in household water purifiers -- and add oxygen. The bacteria multiply and quickly chomp through MTBE.

"This is an efficient organism that breaks it down to natural elements and creates no byproducts," Baker said.

Tesoro has been using bacteria to remove MTBE in North Hollywood for two years, piping tainted water to two small units at a self-storage facility on Victory Boulevard, where the water runs through several chambers that house the carbon filters and bacteria.

After several trips through the filters, the MTBE is below the detection level of 0.5 ppb.

Until recently, Tesoro released the clean water into the storm-drain system and it eventually washed out to the ocean -- a waste of 7 million gallons of water that frustrated local officials.

Just this week, however, Tesoro flipped the switch on the second phase that reinjects the treated water into the aquifer. It's the first time Los Angeles water officials have allowed someone to put treated water back into the San Fernando Valley aquifer.

"We had to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was safe," Baker said.

The new process will save 10 million gallons of water, or enough to serve 60 families for a year.

Now that the scientists have shown that tiny bugs can do the work of high-tech water-treatment devices, Scow hopes other companies will embrace a cheaper, less-destructive and more natural way to clean up contamination.

"This work is an excellent example of how working with nature, supporting the cleanup activities of organisms already present, rather than creating artificial systems, was successful." l8s=8 Kerry Cavanaugh, (818) 713-3746 kerry.cavanaugh*dailynews.com

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From another board, posting is really starting to pick up accross the internet on BUGS..
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
According to Robert Brehm in his CEO interview, PEMEX currently has $3 Billion designated for cleaning up thier oil-spills over the next five years. BUGS seems to have a 1-up on the competition as they have hired the recently retired PEMEX Director of Environment Remediation.(see PR below)

Contracts are expected to be announced at any time. It shouldn't be long before BUGS breaks .1 and holds at that level.

SSWM Mexican Subsidiary Hires Senior Petroleum Expert
Tuesday July 26, 9:54 am ET
30 year veteran with Pemex joins ETI



CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2005--Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM - News), announced that its Mexican subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI) has appointed Mr. Guillermo Andrade Gelabert, P.E. as Vice President and Program Director to develop business opportunities with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Mexican state oil corporation.
Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM, stated, "Guillermo brings over 30 years' experience as a multi-degreed and accomplished registered environmental engineer who recently retired from Pemex as Director of Environment Remediation for Pemex Corporation over all operating divisions of Pemex; Petrochemical, Refinery, Production and Primary Exploration. Guillermo will apply his contacts, knowledge and expertise to develop environmental cleanup contract opportunities for ETI from all operating divisions of Pemex."

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS - News) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM and its Mexican subsidiary company ETI is capitalizing on its licensed patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

Investors and media contact Bruce Beattie at 760/918-1860, ext. 105 or bbeattie*bugsatwork.com; or learn about the company by visiting its Web site at http://www.bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Gapper Alert!!

.04 x .042
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
.041 x .042
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
.042 x .043
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Wanted: Bugs That Scrub
Harnessing bacteria for environmental cleanup

This sample of groundwater from contaminated soil could yield bacteria that can degrade persistent soil pollutants.

The United States is investing billions of dollars to clean up polluted groundwater and soils. In Wisconsin alone, the Department of Natural Resources has a list of nearly 10,000 sites that need to be cleaned up. In 1998, contaminants turned up in well water samples from Beloit to Rhinelander. Some communities removed individual wells from service because water from those wells contained pollutants considered unsafe for drinking.

The most common soil and groundwater pollutants include fuels such as gasoline and oil, industrial compounds such as TCE (trichloroethylene) and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and pesticides. Many of the compounds are threats to human health. Exposure to benzene or TCE, for example, is known to increase the risk of cancer.

What's wrong with the "pump and treat" approach?
Efforts to clean up these toxins have cost far more than anticipated and the results have been discouraging. Conventional methods bring contaminated soil and water to the surface before treating it. Such "pump-and-treat" methods may continue for decades at a polluted site and basically transfer the contaminants to the air or to landfills.

As the limitations of these methods become clearer, experts have become more interested in biological remediation. Bioremediation relies on microbes to destroy hazardous contaminants in place by transforming them into less harmful compounds. The transformation occurs naturally at contaminated sites and has controlled the spread of some pollution without pump-and-treat methods. Those who advocate an expanded role for bioremediation say it will be less costly, faster and safer than pump-and-treat methods, and can be combined with them.

Bacteria: Doing what comes naturally
Bacteria are the key players in bioremediation, which builds on the role they have played in nature for billions of years. These microscopic organisms live virtually everywhere. They break down complex plant, animal and human waste. Bacteria chew up any compound that provides the energy or nutrients they need, even if it's a relatively new compound to them.
Looking for contaminant-eating bacteria that can exist without oxygen.
Graduate student Michele Zwolinski uses an oxygen-free chamber to work with samples from the Fort McCoy site. She is trying to isolate bacteria that can degrade groundwater contaminants in the absence of oxygen.

"Wherever contaminants are present there's strong selection for bacteria that can get some energy from the compounds," says biochemist Brian Fox. "The pollutants that accumulate in the environment are those that aren't a food source for bacteria or that produce toxins when bacteria metabolize them. Or maybe some bacteria can degrade these compounds, but just do it very slowly.

"If such bacteria do exist, perhaps we can improve their ability," Fox says. "What we're trying to do is to speed the process of breakdown."

Fox is one of three CALS scientists trying to harness the power of bacteria to enhance the cleanup of environmental pollution. He studies a bacterial enzyme that can break down some of our most troublesome groundwater contaminants -- benzene, dichloromethane, trichloroethylene and similar pollutants.

To learn how the enzyme works, Fox has been making changes in the gene that produces it. The genetic changes alter the enzyme's structure. Fox can then see how the alteration affects its ability to degrade different compounds.

Bioremediation has become a fast-growing sector of the hazardous waste cleanup industry. Fox collaborates with scientists at Envirogen, Inc., a New Jersey-based company, that is evaluating the altered enzymes Fox produces to see if they can attack contaminants.

Bacteria face off with a gas spill
Soil scientist Bill Hickey is examining what happens in a diverse microbial community when bacteria there come face to face with a gasoline spill. Hickey and hydrogeologist Jean Bahr, from the College of Letters and Science, are studying a fuel spill at Fort McCoy, near Sparta. Bahr is documenting how the plume of contaminated water moves. Hickey, a soil microbiologist, is isolating bacteria that degrade hydrocarbons in groundwater that has no oxygen.

Hickey has studied ground contaminated by leaking fuel tanks and was the first to show that bacteria could degrade TCE in water year-round under Wisconsin conditions if he supplied the bugs with ammonium as a nitrogen source. Now he's looking for bacteria that can degrade benzene. Benzene is a relatively minor component of gasoline, but it's the most toxic component to people and one that bacteria degrade slowly.

"Hydrocarbons are a rich carbon source and bacteria immediately attack them when hydrocarbons enter groundwater," Hickey says. "The intense bacterial activity rapidly uses up what little oxygen was present in the groundwater. When oxygen disappears from groundwater many bacteria can no longer survive there, and that slows down the cleanup."

Wanted: Microbes that exist where oxygen doesn't
Hickey wants to identify bacteria that degrade benzene and closely related compounds in the absence of oxygen. In the laboratory, he is testing the microbial community from uncontaminated groundwater at Fort McCoy to see how that community changes when he adds hydrocarbons. He has found a major shift in the bacteria present when he adds benzene. Hickey has already isolated bacteria that can degrade hydrocarbons similar to benzene in water devoid of oxygen. Now he hopes to find species that can degrade benzene itself.

Microbial physiologist Glenn Chambliss and his colleagues have identified two bacteria and the enzymes that enable them to degrade nitroglycerin and TNT.

"This is the first time anyone has purified and characterized enzymes that can take the initial step in breaking down TNT," says Chambliss, who chairs the Department of Bacteriology.

The findings may lead to biologically based methods for cleaning up soils contaminated with toxic residues left from manufacturing explosives, according to Chambliss. There are an estimated 10,000 U.S. sites contaminated with explosives and related compounds. The materials include: TNT (trinitrotoluene), DNT (dinitrotoluene), nitroglycerin, and nitrocellulose, also known as smokeless gunpowder. TNT and DNT are particularly toxic and break down very slowly.

Wanted: Bacteria that eat dynamite
To find bacteria that could "eat" dynamite, Chambliss and his colleagues collected bacteria from sites once contaminated with nitroglycerin at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo. The plant was once the world's largest producer of smokeless gun powder, a propellant used to fire artillery shells.

The researchers identified several bacteria that could survive at high nitroglycerin concentrations and degrade the compound. They have sequenced the genes that code for different enzymes from two species. One enzyme is five times as efficient as the other at degrading TNT. The more efficient enzyme can follow two different pathways in degrading TNT, according to Chambliss. "One leads to toxic components that don't decay further. The other pathway leads to a partial but more complete breakdown without toxic compounds."

Chambliss is now experimenting to see if he can engineer the enzyme so it only works via the preferred pathway. He, Brian Fox and environmental engineer Dan Noguera from the College of Engineering are also looking for other bacteria and enzymes that will complete the cleanup.

Cleaning up pollutants can be like running an assembly line in reverse. You start with a complex molecule and the bacteria break it apart, eventually reducing it to water and carbon dioxide.

It takes bacterial teamwork
"Bacteria like those that work on TNT often move the degradation process only a certain distance before producing a compound they can no longer benefit from or that is too toxic to keep around," says Fox. "They put that compound back into the environment where other bacteria will hopefully degrade it further. The chain may take several steps before it produces harmless compounds."

Chambliss and Fox hope to find what Fox sometimes calls the "missing link," one bacterium or several that will take the partly degraded TNT molecule and reduce it to compounds that known bacteria can fully degrade to carbon dioxide and water.

You can try to create these bugs or look for them in nature, Fox says. If bacteria can break down a compound, he feels certain that researchers have the best chance of finding those bacteria in nature. "Nature is the greatest experimenter of them all. Nature's experiments go on 24 hours a day, 365 days a year," he says.

From lab tests to commercial applications: A long leap
"It's a major leap from academic research to companies implementing these findings," says Hickey. But the three College scientists know the contaminants are likely to be a problem for a long time to come.

"The bugs have the potential to address these contamination problems," Chambliss says. "But we're still at an early stage in understanding the processes involved. It took us a long time and a great deal of research to develop an industry around the antibiotics that bacteria produce. It's going to take more research before we get bacteria that can solve some of these environ- mental problems."
 
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SSWM Presentation Well Received at Investment Conference
Business Wire - October 04, 2005 09:45

CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct 04, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Robert Brehm, CEO of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS) (BCN:615212), an innovative environmental products and services company, announced that the presentation by Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM), at the Southern California Investment Association's National Investment Conference in Irvine, CA on October 1, was received very well by a large audience of qualified venture capitalists, NASD broker/dealers, investment and merchant bankers, investment advisors, analysts, market makers, fund managers, financial service professionals, and business development consultants looking for emerging growth companies with exciting futures.

Brehm commented on the excellent response by saying, "We used this presentation opportunity to showcase SSWM and the incredible opportunities we have to help the people of Mexico solve many of their pressing environmental concerns using our patented bio-nanotechnology and precision engineering services coupled with local labor and equipment resources. With recent announcements of PEMEX funding for environmental cleanup and emergency response opportunities in various states, SSWM is on the verge of major expansion potential that should be of interest to anyone concerned about clean air, water and soil and related investment opportunities."

Brehm further elicited, "Our message was to get the audience excited about our future and the social and financial rewards available with their help as we clean up the world's messes. Based upon the interest and many new business contacts made I believe our message was well received and we will consummate additional resources to accelerate our growth progress." The SSWM presentation slides are available at www.bugsatwork.com/news.htm.

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect," or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.

Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.
Alan Kau, 888-795-3166
http://www.bugsatwork.com

Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Here we go!!
 
Posted by maumee river rat on :
 
were might that be ...Maybe You better get out and direct traffic Peaser..Damn thing seems to be confused..
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Oregon State Has Big Plans for Study of Tiny Microbes


Cleaning up contaminated areas like the Portland Harbor Superfund site and the Umatilla Weapons Depot. Slowing global warming. Removing pesticides to improve water quality.

These are all gigantic endeavors, but ones that Oregon State University researchers believe can possibly be accomplished by the tiniest of organisms - microbes that just might also hold the key to life on Mars.

Subsurface microbes live below the Earth's surface in soil, mud and rock, and their potential to modify the Earth has only been recognized recently.

"Microorganisms below the subsurface play a major role in the cycles on earth," said Lewis Semprini, a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. "It has only been in the past decade that it was recognized that deep subsurface microbes play a significant role in global cycles."

The work done by Semprini and others led to the Subsurface Biosphere Education Research initiative, one of six initiatives that were recently approved by OSU. All six support OSU's recently adopted strategic plan. The university is reallocating funds internally to provide seed funding for the initiatives.

In 1998, Semprini, and Dan Arp, chair of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, found that some types of bacteria that grow on butane gas have the ability to transform toxic wastes to harmless endproducts. Using microorganisms to clean up contamination could save billions of dollars, Semprini said.

In 2003, Martin Fisk, a professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and other scientists discovered bacteria in a hole drilled more than 4,000 feet deep in volcanic rock on the island of Hawaii near Hilo. Fisk has said that the environment could be analogous to conditions on Mars and other planets.

"Under these conditions, microbes could live beneath any rocky planet," Fisk said at the time. "It would be conceivable to find life inside of Mars, within a moon of Jupiter or Saturn, or even on a comet containing ice crystals that gets warmed up when the comet passes by the sun." Semprini, Fisk and Arp are three of the principal investigators of the initiative proposal. The others are Peter Bottomley, professor in the Department of Microbiology; and David Myrold, professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Science.

Bottomley and Myrold study bacteria and fungi in coniferous forest ecosystems in the central Cascade Mountains at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. They also study nitrogen and carbon cycles.

The subsurface biosphere is an emerging area of study that connects the fields of microbiology, biotechnology, geochemistry, bioremediation (cleaning up contamination), bioengineering, agriculture, forestry, geology, oceanography, astrobiology and others.

One potential benefit is in the area of global warming. Subsurface microbes are part of the process that forms carbon dioxide and methane, contributing to global warming.

"Microbes may also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the subsurface, potentially playing a key role in slowing global warming," Semprini said.

Semprini said that the microbes also can help immobilize radioactive contaminants, such as uranium, in groundwater so these can be recovered or the transport slowed. They are also miniature chemical factories that have determined ways of producing mineral products with very uniform properties. For example, certain bacteria can produce magnetitic iron particles of very specific sizes that could result in much better magnetitic tapes.

This initiative will include faculty members from five colleges - Forestry, Agricultural Sciences, Science, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences and Engineering.

"Our ultimate goal is to create a Center of Excellence for Subsurface Biosphere Education and Research," Semprini said. "It has implications for a wide range of benefits, from environmental cleanup to a better understanding of soil processes. We want to create more synergy among faculty on campus so we can collaborate on large interdisciplinary projects."

Semprini said the key to the initiative is that work is already going on at OSU.

In 2001, the National Science Foundation awarded OSU a $2.6 million grant to form the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program, a graduate student training program to focus on life below the earth's surface.

"There is a significant amount of research already going on and this is a way to get the researchers together and communicate," he said, adding that there will be a potential to offer seed research money for faculty to produce exploratory research findings needed for large interdisciplinary research proposals.

Semprini feels the structure of the Center will evolve over the course of the initiative, and the principal investigators all want the center to live beyond the five years of the initiative.

"We are going to add junior faculty members that fit strategic educational and research needs that have joint appointments between different colleges. This will permit us to increase the courses offered and get undergraduates involved in the research," he said, adding that increasing the diversity of graduate and undergraduate students is also a mission of the initiative.

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Got any DD maumee river rat?
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
A lot of Insider Buying going on today:

http://www.secform4.com/insider/showhistory.php?symbol=bugs
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
State Has Big Plans for Study of Tiny Microbes


Cleaning up contaminated areas like the Portland Harbor Superfund site and the Umatilla Weapons Depot. Slowing global warming. Removing pesticides to improve water quality.

These are all gigantic endeavors, but ones that Oregon State University researchers believe can possibly be accomplished by the tiniest of organisms - microbes that just might also hold the key to life on Mars.

Subsurface microbes live below the Earth's surface in soil, mud and rock, and their potential to modify the Earth has only been recognized recently.

"Microorganisms below the subsurface play a major role in the cycles on earth," said Lewis Semprini, a professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. "It has only been in the past decade that it was recognized that deep subsurface microbes play a significant role in global cycles."

The work done by Semprini and others led to the Subsurface Biosphere Education Research initiative, one of six initiatives that were recently approved by OSU. All six support OSU's recently adopted strategic plan. The university is reallocating funds internally to provide seed funding for the initiatives.

In 1998, Semprini, and Dan Arp, chair of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, found that some types of bacteria that grow on butane gas have the ability to transform toxic wastes to harmless endproducts. Using microorganisms to clean up contamination could save billions of dollars, Semprini said.

In 2003, Martin Fisk, a professor in the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, and other scientists discovered bacteria in a hole drilled more than 4,000 feet deep in volcanic rock on the island of Hawaii near Hilo. Fisk has said that the environment could be analogous to conditions on Mars and other planets.

"Under these conditions, microbes could live beneath any rocky planet," Fisk said at the time. "It would be conceivable to find life inside of Mars, within a moon of Jupiter or Saturn, or even on a comet containing ice crystals that gets warmed up when the comet passes by the sun." Semprini, Fisk and Arp are three of the principal investigators of the initiative proposal. The others are Peter Bottomley, professor in the Department of Microbiology; and David Myrold, professor in the Department of Crop and Soil Science.

Bottomley and Myrold study bacteria and fungi in coniferous forest ecosystems in the central Cascade Mountains at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. They also study nitrogen and carbon cycles.

The subsurface biosphere is an emerging area of study that connects the fields of microbiology, biotechnology, geochemistry, bioremediation (cleaning up contamination), bioengineering, agriculture, forestry, geology, oceanography, astrobiology and others.

One potential benefit is in the area of global warming. Subsurface microbes are part of the process that forms carbon dioxide and methane, contributing to global warming.

"Microbes may also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the subsurface, potentially playing a key role in slowing global warming," Semprini said.

Semprini said that the microbes also can help immobilize radioactive contaminants, such as uranium, in groundwater so these can be recovered or the transport slowed. They are also miniature chemical factories that have determined ways of producing mineral products with very uniform properties. For example, certain bacteria can produce magnetitic iron particles of very specific sizes that could result in much better magnetitic tapes.

This initiative will include faculty members from five colleges - Forestry, Agricultural Sciences, Science, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences and Engineering.

"Our ultimate goal is to create a Center of Excellence for Subsurface Biosphere Education and Research," Semprini said. "It has implications for a wide range of benefits, from environmental cleanup to a better understanding of soil processes. We want to create more synergy among faculty on campus so we can collaborate on large interdisciplinary projects."

Semprini said the key to the initiative is that work is already going on at OSU.

In 2001, the National Science Foundation awarded OSU a $2.6 million grant to form the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program, a graduate student training program to focus on life below the earth's surface.

"There is a significant amount of research already going on and this is a way to get the researchers together and communicate," he said, adding that there will be a potential to offer seed research money for faculty to produce exploratory research findings needed for large interdisciplinary research proposals.

Semprini feels the structure of the Center will evolve over the course of the initiative, and the principal investigators all want the center to live beyond the five years of the initiative.

"We are going to add junior faculty members that fit strategic educational and research needs that have joint appointments between different colleges. This will permit us to increase the courses offered and get undergraduates involved in the research," he said, adding that increasing the diversity of graduate and undergraduate students is also a mission of the initiative.
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Following the 2004 conference, two other GRC conferences on Marine Microbes are planned.

Please contact the chairs of these events for further information.

2006 in North America: Co-chairs are Dave Caron (University of South California, Los Angeles) and Alex Worden (University of Miami)

2008 in Europe: Vice-chair is Carlos Pedrós-Alió (Institut de Ciències del Mar Barcelona)


Conference Organisers
Conference Chair: Daniel Vaulot,
CNRS UMR 7127, Station Biologique de Roscoff, BP 74, 29682 Roscoff FRANCE,
Telephone: +33 2 98 29 23 34 FAX: +33 2 98 29 23 24 Email: vaulot*sb-roscoff.fr


Conference Co-chair: William K. Li
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, PO Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, B2Y 4A2
Telephone: 1-902-426-6349 FAX: 1-902-426-9388 Email: LiB*mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca


Conference outline

This 2004 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) will be the first one of a new series dedicated to Marine Microbes. Microbes (i.e. virus, Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryota; autotrophic and heterotrophic) lie at the heart of the functioning of all marine ecosystems, from the surface euphotic zone to deep hydrothermal vents. Marine microbes drive the natural biogeochemical cycles and, in turn, are affected by anthropogenic influences. Thus, these microbes are directly relevant to many societal concerns of the global environment: biodiversity, climate change, harvestable resources and others. The last two decades have seen an explosion of studies devoted to these organisms. The use of molecular tools has been critical in this respect. It is timely to initiate this series with a conference on picophytoplankton because this field appears to be poised at a turning point.


Picophytoplankton, discovered in the late 1970s, are unicellular photosynthetic organisms less than 2 to 3 microns in size. These marine microbes dominate biomass and production in large regions of the ocean, thus playing a key role in global elemental cycles such as that of carbon. Nearly 20 years after the NATO Advanced Study Institute on picoplankton organized by T. Platt and W.K.W. Li, the time has arrived for a new meeting to summarize the current state of knowledge. To date, a very large amount of data has been gathered on picophytoplankton. Information on ecological distributions and taxonomic diversity have come from novel approaches such as flow cytometry and molecular biology. More strikingly, the recent development of genomics of picoplankton species such as Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus and Ostreococcus provide new and fundamental insight. This meeting will first review recent advances in the taxonomy of picophytoplankton, especially the discovery of many novel eukaryotic groups both from culture and molecular-based field studies. In particular, we will cover extensively the new tools of molecular biology. Then, we will examine the physiology and ecology of picophytoplankton and revisit its role in the microbial food web. Finally we will dwell on the very exciting developments in picophytoplankton genomics and how the new knowledge will impact on our understanding of marine ecosystems.
 
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Programs with Microbial Research Components
Links are provided to government, industry, and other agencies and programs that have a microbial genetics component. Additional links are provided to some examples of research being done.

U.S. Government Programs

Department of Defense (DOD)

DOD microbial research is focused on health support against infections, both natural and man-made. Other DOD research studies the biosynthesis of new materials and environmental impacts of DOD activities.

Pathogen Genomic Sequencing, Defense Science Office
Biosystems
Abstracts available through Scientific and Technical Information Network search page
Department of Energy (DOE)

DOE funds an integrated effort to sequence microbial genomes of importance to energy production, chemical and materials production, environmental carbon sequestration, and environmental cleanup.

U.S. DOE Microbial Genome Program
U.S. DOE Genomics:GTL Program
Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research (NABIR)
Global Change Research Program
Carbon Sequestration
Joint Genome Institute
Department of Interior (DOI), U.S. Geological Survey

DOI is investigating the use of microbes to control invasive species, studying the health of microbes that digest municipal sludge, and documenting the effect of microbes on the health of ecosystems.

Biological Information & Technology Notes
No. 98-012, July 1998, "Homology of Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance Genes From Different Origins"
No. 97-009, December 1997, "Antimicrobial Resistance in Aeromonas salmonicida"
No. 97-005, July 1997, "Evaluation of the Genetic Diversity of Renibacterium salmoninarum"
No. 97-002, June 1997, "Second Occurrence of Woodcock Mortality Associated with Orthoreovirus"
"The Formation and Destruction of Methylmercury by Bacterial Processes" Abstract
"Microbial Sources Tracking" Abstract
Microbiology and Molecular Ecology of biogeochemical cycles in aquatic environments
"Bemidji - A crude oil spill from an underground tank in a remote area resulted in a unique oportunity to study the response of the endemic bacterial community." Article
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

EPA supports a broad range of microbial research aimed at understanding the effects of microbes on pollutants and microbes as pollutants.

Microbiology home page
"Relative Abundance of Mer Genes in Microbial Gene Pools"
"Biochemical and Molecular Biology Studies of the Biodegradation of 2,4,5-Trichlorophenoxyacetic Acid: A Case History"
"Gene Transfer from GEMs to Aquatic Microbial Communities Detected by Assembly of a Catabolic Pathway"
"Studies on Conjugal Transfer of Plasmids from GEMs to Indigenous Aquatic Bacteria"
"Pseudomonads as Model Organisms in Risk Assessment of the Deliberate Release of Genetically Engineered Bacteria"
"Conjugal Gene Transfer to Aquatic Bacteria
Detected by the Generation of a New Phenotype"
Abstracts available at this page
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

FDA research focuses on the effect of pathogens on human health and the safety of food.

"FDA's Policy for Foods Developed by Biotechnology" Chapter, American Chemical Society Symposium Series No. 605, 1995
"The Rise of Antibiotic-Resistant Infections" Feature, FDA Consumer
The"Bad Bug Book" a handbook on foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA studies the genomics of microbes in extreme environments and the effects they have on human health in space.

"Streptococcus pneumoniae Gene Expression and Virulence Potential in the Space Environment"
"Bacterial Physiology and Virulence on Earth and in Microgravity"
"DNA Probe Design for Preflight and Inflight Microbial Monitoring"
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

NIST partners with other institutes to fund research in microbial bioinformatics, structural genomices, protein and metabolic engineering, standardization, and DNA diagnostics.

Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics and Protein Data Bank Partner
Thermodynamics of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions Database
Protein Structure Initiative (PSI)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH funds microbial research through many different NIH institutes, supporting studies into the effects of microbes on health and using microbes to study basic life processes.

National Institute of Allegy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Pathogen Genome Sequencing Activities,
Sexually Transmitted Disease Pathogens Sequencing Database
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Program
National Human Genome Research Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
"Cell-Cell Signaling in Microbe-Host Interactions"
"Quorum Sensing and Gene Expression in Bacillus subtilis"
National Center for Research Resources
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Malaria Genetics & Genomics
Clusters of Orthologous Groups of proteins (COGs)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NOAA funds research to determine the effects of microbes on coastal ecosystems and natural resources.

"Loihi Submarine Volcano: A unique, natural extremophile laboratory" Feature
National Science Foundation (NSF)

NSF supports a wide range of microbial research including microbes as model organisms, microbes from critical environments, educational programs, and basic life sciences research uses microbes.

Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at NSF
Department of Agriculture (USDA)

USDA microbial research is in critical areas of food safety, biotechnology, nutrition, plant and animal protection, and fundamental agricultural research.

Plant, Microbial, and Insect Genetic Resources, Genomics and Genetic Improvement Program
Microbial Properties Research Unit
Other Links

The Institute for Genome Research (TIGR)
The Comprehensive Microbial Resource
Sanger Centre
For more government, industry, and other programs, see our Related Links page.


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Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, Michigan
Michael J. Klug (klug*kbs.msu.edu)
James M. Tiedje (tiedjej*pilot.msu.edu)
Eldor A. Paul (paulea*pilot.msu.edu)
Katherine L. Gross (kgross*kbs.msu.edu)
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Thomas M. Schmidt (tschmidt*pilot.msu.edu)

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Soil microbial ecology is a central part of KBS LTER research. Understanding the ecological interactions underlying the productivity of field crop agriculture is the central focus of LTER research at KBS, and microbes comprise one of our most intensively studied taxa, together with vascular plants and insects. Microbial studies at KBS take a variety of forms, with most studies directed towards questions about the patterns, causes, and consequences of microbial diversity and microbial biomass for ecosystem processes in intensively managed ecosystems.

Our studies to date have centered on examinations of microbial growth rates, biomass, and fungal: bacterial ratios. We have also focused on population-level questions using direct microscopy, classical pure-culture techniques, and, for the multitude of unculturable microbes in soil, molecular analyses of phenotypes and genomes. Many of these latter techniques provide whole-soil signatures of community composition, and have been particularly useful for examaning community-level differences among sites and experimental treatments. For questions related to specific populations we have focused our efforts on examinations of specific functional groups such as denitrifiers, nitrifiers, lignin and 2,4-D degraders, and the rhizobacteria, linking these groups to specific microbial processes. Much of this research has been collaborative with the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (www.cme.msu.edu) at Michigan State; a number of KBS LTER co-PI's are also co-investigators in the CME.

We provide below background information on our current studies of microbial community structure. Other microbial work is also underway at KBS but not described here due to space limitations – including detailed biogeochemical and population-level investigations of microbial processes such as denitrification, trace gas fluxes, and soil organic matter turnover and DOC and DON fluxes. Following this section we highlight specific analytical procedures now in use at KBS.

Microbial Community Structure


The diversity and complexity of soil microbial communities present a major challenge to our efforts to understand how biological processes can be managed in agricultural systems. Soil microbial communities are arguably the most diverse communities on earth, and the factors that determine this extraordinarily high diversity are not well understood (Caldwell et al. 1997). Torsvick et al. (1994) have provided evidence that in one gram of soil there are billions of individual organisms and thousands of species. What are the ecological consequences of such high diversity at such a small spatial scale? And how does this change across the range of scales that we consider to be important for other organisms (e.g. plants and consumers) and biogeochemical processes? To determine how to manage the biological processes controlled by soil microbes, it is important to understand the patterns, causes, and consequences of microbial diversity and the scale at which microbial communities are structured. Understanding the link between the scale at which the microbial community is structured and the scale at which ecosystem processes occur may itself tell us a great deal about the role of microbial diversity in ecosystem functioning.

The high spatial heterogeneity of soil in an ecological context is well documented (Robertson and Gross 1994, Paul and Clark 1996). Differences among habitats in the degree of soil heterogeneity may influence the diversity of microbes that occur there and their function (Gross et al. 1995). For example, our results with nitrifiers and soil C dynamics are best interpreted in relation to differences among treatments in soil heterogeneity (reflecting the availability of microhabitats) and soil organic fractions (reflecting resource heterogeneity; Paul et al. 1998a). Spatial heterogeneity in soil microbial communities occurs at a broad range of scales, from soil particles (e.g. soil macroaggregates), to plant rhizospheres, to field plots, and to the ecosystem and global levels (Tiedje 1994).


At KBS we have documented that there is spatially-structured dependence in microbial processes at both a macro- (e.g 10's of meters, Robertson et al.1997) and micro- (cm, Cavigelli et al. 1995) scale. We have shown that microbial activity (measured by short-term microbial respiration) varies among and within plant communities; in some sites samples taken only centimeters apart vary by a factor of >2. The among-community scale component of this nested variation may be attributable to differences in primary productivity and soil physical properties (e.g. depth to the Bt horizon). At the within-community scales, the doubling of microbial activity may be attributable to the distance to the nearest plant. However, we suspect that these differences may also be due to heterogeneity in soil structure, leading to discontinuous resource availability at the millimeter-scale. This small-scale heterogeneity may be driven by the interaction of plant-derived substrates, such as roots and decaying plant particles, and within-aggregate habitats differences due to clay content, pore sizes, and aeration.

To date, our investigations of soil microbial communities have primarily concentrated on the level and pattern of microbial diversity among the different plant communities that occur on the KBS LTER site. These communities range from the intensively managed row crops under different input intensities to native communities at different successional stages. Our results, generated by a variety of phenotypic and genetic approaches, have documented differences in the apparent diversity of whole-soil microbial communities (patterns of bacterial fatty acids, FAMEs), as well as differences in the diversity of key functional groups, notably denitrifiers (Cavigelli 1998) and nitrifiers (Bruns et al. 1998).


In the past decade we have concentrated on documenting the level and patterns of microbial diversity among ecosystems using strategies such as those outlined in the figure at right. We have now begun more intense investigations of the regulation, maintenance, and consequences of microbial community structure. We hypothesize that the majority of soil microbial diversity is driven by the heterogeneous distribution of resources and habitats in soil. For example, we have found a variety of autotrophic nitrifier genera in our never-tilled successional plots (Bruns et al. 1998), all of which grow in the laboratory only at low NH4+ concentrations. In contrast, in our agronomic plots there is a single dominant genus (Nitrosomonas) that is able to grow across a wider range of NH4+ concentrations. These differences in nitrifier diversity could be due to differences in resource availability, and therefore competitive interactions. However, this pattern may also be due to greater diversity of protective soil habitats in the never-tilled community. Heterogeneity in soil structure, which may lead to higher levels of microbial diversity, is affected not only by cultivation regime but also by the presence and activity of plants that create biopores and habitat for the mesofauna that are directly responsible for much of the soil structure (Oades 1993).

To improve our knowledge of how microbial community structure interacts with the functioning of ecosystems we must obtain a more quantitative knowledge of the interaction between microbes, plant residues and disturbance, at a variety of spatial scales. This will require examining the availability of specific resources (at the substrate level) across multiple spatial scales.

We are currently concentrating our research on soil microbial communities at the KBS LTER in four areas:

Investigations of the availability of microbial resources (especially substrates) through continued studies on the pools and fluxes of soil organic matter;
Examination of the scales at which carbon turns over in soils from the microaggregate (mm) to the landscape (km);
Investigations of the diversity and structure of specific groups of soil microbes across the 11 different communities on the KBS LTER, with an initial emphasis on Basidiomycete fungi, a microbial group that is responsible for significant carbon turnover in soil; and
Investigations of the linkage between plant diversity, disturbance, soil structure, microbial diversity, and key ecosystem functions such as primary productivity, nitrogen cycling, and nutrient retention in general.


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Analytical Procedures Used for Microbial Ecology at KBS
Microbial Biomass
Microbial biomass is enumerated at KBS using the chloroform incubation technique calibrated with direct microscopy. Specific techniques are documented in Howarth et al. (1994, 1996) and Paul et al. (1998). Results are available on the KBS LTER web site.

Fungal Biomass and Fungal: Bacterial Ratios
Ergosterol is a steroid found in most fungi, but absent in other microorganisms. We have found that the concentration of ergosterol in soils (Stahl and Parkin 1996) is directly related to the growth rate of fungi and provides an estimate of the fungal biomass in soil. Comparisons of fungal and bacterial ratios, and the size of bacterial biomass are also useful for documenting changes within soil microbial communities. Computerized fluorescence microscopy has greatly aided our ability to examine these characteristics.

Culturable Microorganisms
During the establishment of our main cropping systems site a culture collection of bacteria was established to provide a benchmark collection. From over 1000 isolates a 100-isolate subset was selected for intensive study ("the KBS 100"). These isolates have been characterized using a variety of polyphasic taxonomic tools (see figure above) and are maintained as a long-term reference collection. Additional collections include lignin decomposing Basidiomycetes from the site (molecular techniques show that many have previously not been described; Thorn et al. 1996) as well as collections of denitrifiers (Cavigelli 1998) and nitrifiers (Bruns 1996).

Non-Culturable Microbes: Community-Level Signatures
We have used a variety of phenotypic tools to characterize soil microbial community composition as related to ecological change (Klug and Tiedje 1993, Sinsabaugh et al. 1998). These include fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) and phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analyses (Peterson and Klug 1994, Haack et al. 1994, Cavigelli et al. 1995, Corlew-Newman and Klug 1998), as well as Biolog™ carbon utilization signatures. We are also using G+C analysis to examine the distributions of low G+C populations (e.g. Pseudomonas) vs. high G+C populations (e.g. Arthrobacter), and L-asparaginase activity to resolve differences in rhizosphere populations.

Population-Level Signatures: Gene Probes
We have collaborated with the NSF Center for Microbial Ecology (CME) at MSU in the development and testing of several gene probes for assaying specific soil populations at KBS. Particularly successful has been the deployment of probes for 2,4-D metabolism (Holben et al. 1992, Ka et al. 1994a,b,c,d, 1995), and for nitrifying bacteria (Zhou et al. 1995, Bruns 1996, Bruns et al. 1998). We are beginning to design population-specific rRNA oligonucleotide probes to determine the contribution of these various fractions of rRNA to total prokaryotic community rRNA. The advantage of working with RNA is that it allows detection of the most active (highest ribosome content) populations, which are also probably the most dominant populations.

Population-Level Signatures: Phenotypic Techniques
We have used lipid analysis (fatty acid markers) to track changes in fungal communities in different soils (Stahl and Klug 1996, 1998, Stahl et al. 1998), changes in mycorrhizal associations (Calderon 1997), and differences in denitrifier community composition (Cavigelli 1998). These techniques have been combined with techniques for culturable microbes and community-level signatures (above).

Bacterial Growth Rates
Microbial biomass provides an estimate of the pool size of microorganisms, but not of biomass turnover. We have examined bacterial turnover dynamics using 3H, thymidine, and 14C-leucine incorporation kinetics (Harris 1994, Harris and Paul 1994).

Microbial Process Measurements
Measurements of key microbial processes such as nitrification, carbon mineralization, and carbon and nitrogen gas fluxes are coupled to those of microbial and plant community structure to provide insight into the functional significance of microbial diversity at KBS. Processes examined include CH4 oxidation and N2O production (Robertson 1993, Paustian et al. 1995, Ambus and Robertson 1998a,b), carbon oxidation (Paul et al. 1994, 1998a,b, Paustian et al. 1995), denitrification (Cavigelli 1998), and nitrification (Bruns 1996, Knoke 1997).

Microbial Predators
Nematodes are important fungal and bacterial consumers that can affect the distribution and abundance of microbial populations. We have examined changes in nematode groups among cropping system treatments (Freckman and Ettema 1993) as well as the distribution of various nematode trophic groups (Robertson and Freckman 1995). These studies, in combination with our data on biomass and biomass turnover measurements, provide evidence on the controls in the distribution of key microbial groups in soils.
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References

Ambus, P., and G.P. Robertson. 1998. Automated near-continuous measurement of CO2 and N2O fluxes with a photoacoustic infra-red spectrometer and flow-through soil cover boxes. Soil Science Society of America Journal 62:394-400.

Ambus, P., and G.P. Robertson. 1999. Fluxes of CH4 and N2O from Poplar stands grown under ambient and twice-ambient CO2. Plant and Soil (submitted).

Bruns, M. 1996. Nucleic acid probe analysis of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizer populations in soils. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Bruns, M.A., J.A. Fries, J.M. Tiedje, and E.A. Paul. 1998. Functional gene hybridization patterns of terrestrial ammonia-oxidizing bacteria. Microbial Ecology 36:293-302.

Calderon, F. 1997. Lipids: Their value as molecular markers and their role in the carbon cycle of arbuscular mycorrihizae. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Caldwell, D.E., G.M. Wolfaardt, D.R. Korber, and J.R. Lawrence. 1997. Do bacterial communities transcend Darwinism? Advances in Microbial Ecology 15: 105-191

Cavigelli, M.A., G.P. Robertson, and M.J. Klug. 1995. Fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles as measures of soil microbial community structure. Pages 99-113 in H.P. Collins, G.P. Robertson, and M.J. Klug, eds. The Significance and Regulation of Soil Biodiversity. Plant and Soil 170. Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Cavigelli, M. 1998. Ecosystem consequences and spatial variability of microbial soil community structure. Ph.D. Thesis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Cavigelli, M. A., G. P. Robertson, and M. J. Klug. 1995. Fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles as measures of soil microbial community structure. Pages 99-113 in H. P. Collins, G. P. Robertson, and M. J. Klug, eds. The Significance and Regulation of Soil Biodiversity. Plant and Soil 170. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Cavigelli, M. A., and G. P. Robertson. 1999. The functional significance of denitrifier community composition in a terrestrial ecosystem. Ecology (in press).

Collins, H. P., G. P. Robertson, and M. J. Klug, eds. 1995. The Significance and Regulation of Soil Biodiversity. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Also published as Plant and Soil 170:1-241.

Freckman, D.W. and C.H. Ettema. 1993. Assessing nematode communities in agroecosystems of varying human intervention. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Envrionment 45:239-261.

Haack, S.K., H. Garchow, D.A. Odelson, L.J. Forney and M.J. Klug. 1994. Microbial community analysis: accuracy, reproducibility and interpretation of fatty acid methyl ester profiles from model bacterial communities. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60:2483-2493.

Harris, D. 1994. Analyses of DNA extracted from microbial communities. Pages 111-118 in K. Ritz, J. Dighton, and K. Giller, eds. Beyond the Biomass. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England.

Harris, D., and E.A. Paul. 1994. Measurement of microbial growth rates in soil. Applied Soil Ecology 1:277-290.

Holben, W.E., B.M. Schroeder, V.G.M. Calabrese, R.H. Olsen, J.K. Kukor, V.O. Biederbeck, A.E. Smith, and J.M. Tiedje. 1992. Gene probe analysis of soil microbial populations selected by amendment with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). Applied Environment Microbiology 58:3941-3948.

Horwath, W.R., and E.A. Paul. 1994. Microbial biomass. Pages 753-774 in R.W. Weaver, J.S. Angle, P.J. Bottomley, D.F. Bezdicek, M.S. Smith, M.A. Tabatabai, and A.G. Wollum, eds. Methods of Soil Analysis Part 2-Microbiological and Biochemical Properties. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Horwath, W.R., E.A. Paul, D. Harris, J. Norton, L. Jagger, and K.A. Horton. 1996. Defining a realistic control for the chloroform-fumigation incubation method using microscopic counting and 14C-substrates. Can. J. Soil Sci. 96:459-467.

Ka, J.O., P. Burauel, J.A. Bronson, W.E. Holben, and J.M. Tiedje. 1995. DNA probe analysis of microbial community selected in field by long-term 2,4-D application. Soil Science Society of America Journal 59:1581-1587.

Ka, J.O., W.E. Holben, and J.M. Tiedje. 1994. Analysis of competition in soil among 2,4-D degrading bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60:1121-1128.

Ka, J.O., W.E. Holben, and J.M. Tiedje. 1994. Genetic and phenotypic diversity of 2,4-D degrading bacteria isolated from 2,4-D treated field soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60:1106-1115.

Ka, J.O., W.E. Holben, and J.M. Tiedje. 1994. Integration and excision of a 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate acid-degradative plasmid in alcaligenes paradoxus and evidence of its natural intergeneric transfer. Journal Bacteriology 176:5284-5289.

Ka, J.O., W.E. Holben, and J.M. Tiedje. 1994. Use of gene probes to aid recovery and identification of functionally dominant 2,4-D degrading populations in soil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60:1116-1120.

Klug, M.J. and J.M. Tiedje. 1993. Response of microbial communities to changing environmental conditions: chemical and physiological approaches. Pages 371-374 in R. Guerrero and C. Pedros-Alio, eds. Trends in Microbial Ecology, Spanish Society for Microbiology, Barcelona, Spain.

Knoke, K.E. 1997. Assessment of the origin and fate of nitrate from soil lysimeters using stable nitrogen isotopes. M.Sc. Thesis, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Oades, J. M. 1993. The role of biology in the formation, stabilization and degradation of soil structure. Geoderma 56: 377-400.

Paul, E.A. and F.E. Clark. 1996. Soil Microbiology and Biochemistry. 2nd edition. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, CA. 340 pp

Paul, E.A., D. Harris, M. Klug, and R. Ruess. 1999. The determination of microbial biomass. In G.P. Robertson, D.C. Coleman, C.S. Bledsoe, and P. Sollins, eds. Standard Soil Methods for Long-Term Ecological Research, Oxford University Press, New York (In press).

Paul, E.A., H.P. Collins, D. Harris, U. Schulthess, and G.P. Robertson. 1998. The influence of biological management inputs on carbon mineralization in ecosystems. Applied Soil Ecology 327: 1-13.

Paul, E.A., E.T. Elliott, C.V. Cole and K. Paustian (eds.). 1994. Soil Organic Matter Dynamics in Agroecosystems. Lewis CRC Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida. 500 pp.

Paustian, K., G.P. Robertson, and E.T. Elliott. 1995. Management impacts on carbon storage and gas fluxes (CO2, CH4) in mid-latitude cropland ecosystems. Pages 69-84 in R. Lal, J. Kimble, E. Levine, and B.A. Stewart, eds. Soil Management and the Greenhouse Effect, Advances in Soil Science. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.

Paustian, K., H.P. Collins, and E.A. Paul. 1997. Management controls on soil carbon. Pages 15-49 in E.A. Paul, K. Paustian, E.T. Elliot and C.V. Cole, eds. Soil Organic Matter in Temperate Agroecosystems: Long-Term Experiments in North America. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.

Peterson, S.O. and M.J. Klug. 1994. Effects of sieving, storage and incubation temperature on the phospholipid fatty acid profile of a soil microbial community. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60:2421-2430.

Robertson, G.P. 1993. Fluxes of nitrous oxide and other nitrogen trace gases from intensively managed landscapes: a global perspective. Pages 95-108 in L.A. Harper, A.R. Mosier, J.M. Duxbury, and D.E. Rolston, eds. Agricultural Ecosystem Effects on Trace Gases and Global Climate Change. American Society of Agronomy, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

Robertson, G.P., and D.W. Freckman. 1995. The spatial distribution of nematode trophic groups across a cultivated ecosystem. Ecology 76:1425-1432.

Robertson, G. P. and E.A. Paul. 1998. Ecological research in agricultural ecosystems: contributions to ecosystem science and to the management of agronomic resources. Pages 142-164 in M. L. Pace and P. M. Groffman, eds. Successes, Limitations and Frontiers in Ecosystem Science. Cary Conference VII, Springer-Verlag, New York.

Robertson, G. P., K. M. Klingensmith, M. J. Klug, E. A. Paul, J. C. Crum, and B. G. Ellis. 1997. Soil resources, microbial activity, and primary production across an agricultural ecosystem. Ecological Applications 7: 158-170.

Sinsabaugh, R.L., M.J. Klug, H.P. Collins, P.E. Yeager, and S. O. Peterson. 1999. Characterizing soil microbial communities. In G.P. Robertson, C.S. Bledsoe, D.C. Coleman, and P. Sollins, eds. Standard Soil Methods for Long-Term Ecological Research, Oxford University Press, New York (In press).

Stahl, P.D., and T.B. Parkin. 1996. Relationship of soil ergosterol content and fungal biomass. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 28:847-855.

Stahl, P.D., and M.J. Klug. 1999. Lipid comparisons of microfungal communities from soils and on different agricultural management practices. Plant and Soil (In press).

Stahl, P.D., and M.J. Klug. 1996. Characterization and differentiation of filamentous fungi based on fatty acid composition. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62:4136-4146.

Tiedje, J.M. 1994. Approaches to the comprehensive evaluation of procaryote diversity of a habitat. In: D.Allsopp, R.R. Colwell, and D.L. Hawksworth (eds) Microbial Diversity and Ecosystem Function, CAB International,Wallingford, U.K.

Torsvik, V., J. Goksoyr, F.L. Daae, R. Sorheim, J. Michelsen, and K. Salte. 1994. Use of DNA analysis to determine the diversity of microbial communities. In: Beyond the Biomass. K. Ritz, J. Dighton, and K.E. Diller (eds.) Wiley Sayce, London, England. pp. 39-48

Zhou, J., M.A. Bruns, and J.M. Tiedje. 1995. Rapid method for recovery of DNA from soils of diverse composition. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62:316-322.


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Microbial Observatories and Microbial Research at LTER Sites
Gary Toranzos and Mathew Kane of NSF, John Vande Castle of LTER Network Office and the principal investigators of the LTER Microbial Observatories

Setting up a food-web manipulation experiment at Crystal Bog in Vilas County, WI (North Temperate Lakes LTER). The water is filtered through various size sieves to remove certain components of the microbial food web.The water is then incubated in containers in the lake to see what effect removal of organisms will have on the bacterial community. In this photo, initial samples of the microbial communities are taken for later comparison.

When the first six LTER sites in the LTER Network were funded in 1980, the idea of studying specific ecosystems at temporal and spatial scales was revolutionary. Currently all 24 LTER sites participate in this endeavor, and there is much interest from LTER networks forming in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Australia, and Asia to develop this work further, demonstrating the importance of multiple-scale science initiatives.

Among all existing organisms, prokaryotes are the most numerous and the most ubiquitous, but ironically, the least understood. Their roles in biological processes is virtually unknown. With this in mind, NSF initiated “The Microbial Observatories Program.” The guiding themes of the MO Program (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/
nsf02118/nsf02118.htm) are: the discovery of newly described or poorly understood microorganisms/consortia/communities from diverse habitats, but not simply their discovery—also the exploration of these organisms and their unique genomic, metabolic, ecological and/or evolutionary properties at a particular site or habitat.

In response to this initiative, LTER formed a Subcommittee on Microbial Ecology and drafted a tentative research agenda for LTER-associated MO projects in 1999 (See http://www.lternet.edu/microbial_ecology/). Three years later, it is encouraging to see that eight of the thirty NSF funded Microbial Observatories have been established at LTER sites. LTER sites are “user-friendly” for microbiologists, as data for any Microbial Observatory project can be coordinated with and compared to other data that gathered by LTER participants.

We now know that prokaryotes are the most abundant and ecologically and metabolically diverse forms of life on Earth. Genomic segments have been transferred across the broadest of phylogenetic boundaries, implying that close to its roots, the Tree of Life has more web-like than branch-like connections. The concern over bio-terrorism makes research in microbial ecology very timely. As more robust and sensitive methods are developed to scrutinize prokaryotic biota, we will be better able to understand microbial processes. In this manner within the realm of ecology, microbial processes will no longer be in a “black box.”

The National Science Foundation hosted a workshop for researchers of all the Microbial Observatories 22-24 Sept 2002. Results from the workshop and links to all the LTER Microbial Observatory Projects listed here can be found at:
http://www.lternet.edu/microbial_ecology/

Salt Marsh Microbes and Microbial Processes: Sulfur and Nitrogen (Plum Island LTER) John Hobbie
Microbial Observatory research at the Plum Island LTER site identifies prokaryotes in salt marsh sediments and plankton and determines their role in controlling major ecosystem processes. They have found that organic materials, probably of algal origin, dominate both sediment organic-carbon composition and bacterial carbon processing in the Spartina marsh. The diversity of ammonia oxidizing bacteria suggest that salinity is a primary factor in driving community structure, and possibly metabolic function, of these organisms in estuarine sediments. Annual patterns of sulfate reducing bacteria diversity in the rhizosphere show persistent populations throughout the growing season while greater variability was seen in unvegetated creek sediments. Mixing of marine and freshwater communities along the salinity gradients result in a third community unique to estuarine waters, which is related to the flushing time of the estuary and to the high productivity of phytoplankton blooms.

A Microbial Observatory for the Northern Temperate Lakes LTER Eric Triplett
The research objective at North Temperate Lakes LTER is to characterize the diversity of freshwater microbial populations and their relationship to ecosystem processes in lakes that represent the major trophic types of temperate landscapes: oligotrophic (clear water, few nutrients), humic (brown water, rich in dissolved organic carbon), and eutrophic (nutrient rich, high biomass of algae and bacteria). Their reserach combines molecular methods for describing naturally occurring microbial communities with more traditional measures of microbial processes and microscopic assessments of algal and bacterial populations. During the ice-free period for two successive years, our data reveal that while bacterial community composition within a particular lake can exhibit rapid changes, the greatest variability in BCC was observed between lakes.


Justine Lyons, a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia, retrieves samples at the Sapelo Island Microbial observatory for a project investigating interactions between bacterial and fungal decomposers. (Photo: Mary Ann Moran)



PVC pipe serve as artificial stems to anchor decaying plant material infiltrated with a single fungal species. (Photo: Mary Ann Moran)

Prokaryotic Diversity of a Salt Marsh/Estuarine Complex at the University of Georgia Marine Institute, Sapelo Island (Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER) Mary Ann Moran
Our efforts focus on the composition and functioning of microbial communities in coastal salt marshes in the southeastern U.S. Research on decomposer communities has uncovered a diverse bacterial community that is physically associated with a low-diversity acomycete-dominated fungal community. These communities vary with season and decomposition stage, but show little spatial heterogeneity in the marsh ecosystem. Gene sequencing approaches to describing microbial communities have revealed considerable ‘microdiversity’ within salt marsh bacterial taxa; the ecological importance of this 16S rRNA microdiversity is not yet well understood, but may be a critical issue for linking microbial structure and function. Sequence data from these and other molecular ecology studies need to be integrated with ecological information about samples, collection conditions, and environmental characteristics. We have constructed a prototype web-accessible public database that links 16S rRNA gene sequences with associated environmental information
(http://www.simo.marsci.uga.edu).

Diversity of Nitrogen-Cycling Microorganisms at the H.J. Andrews LTER David Myrold
Investigators at the H.J. Andrews hope to determine links between vegetation types and microbial communities, to examine the spatial variability along meadow-to-forest transects, to correlate microbial community structure with nitrogen cycling processes, and identify key and potentially novel nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria. Findings indicate that nitrification potentials are consistent along meadow-to-forest transects and only changed significantly after crossing a boundary. Nitrification and denitrification potentials are more than ten-fold higher in the meadow than forest soil, consistent with past studies. Similar shifts are observed in microbial community composition.

Observing Patterns of Prokaryotic Diversity along Land use Gradients of the CAP Fred Rainey
The Central Arizona-Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) site is investigating changes in bacterial diversity across land use gradients and the ubiquity of certain bacterial groups throughout the compact yet diverse environment. We have found a significant difference in the proportion organisms between urban and desert samples. Using culture-independent tools we have seen distinct shifts of bacterial diversity dependent on land use as well as the discovery of taxa that have the abilities to remain throughout the site.

Spatial Scales of Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity Among Streptomycetes in Native Soils (takes place at Cedar Creek LTER) Linda Kinkel
The main objectives for this research is to spatially quantify genetic and phenotypic diversity among the antibiotic-producing microorganisms Streptomycetes. The research also looks at the effects of different plant species on microbial genetic diversity. We know that at CDR, genetically similar organisms tend to be tightly clustered in space and there is a very high diversity of antibiotic activities among Streptomycetes in at all spatial scales. Studies of the resulting antibiotic inhibition and resistance show the inhibition effects increase with soil depth and that organisms were better at inhibiting isolates originating from different locations than from the same location in soil, and the associations of Streptomycetes vary significantly with different plant species.

Microbial Biogeochemistry and Functional Diversity across the Forest-Tundra Ecotone in the Rocky Mountains (Niwot Ridge LTER) Steve Schmidt
Microbial studies near Niwot Ridge focus on changes in microbial biogeochemistry and diversity associated with the transition from the snow covered winter period to summer growing season in alpine tundra and sub-alpine forests of the Rocky Mountains. The comprehensive seasonal approach has provides new insight into both microbial diversity and biogeochemical functioning in the highly seasonal environment. They have found a large temporal variation in microbial activity, with pronounced biogeochemical changes evident during snowmelt. The research in general implies that soil microbial communities are very dynamic at any given site.

A Cold Microbial Observatory: Collaborative Research in an Alaskan Boreal Forest Soil (Bonanza Creek LTER) Jo Handelsman
A particular interest at Bonanza Creek is the role of microorganisms in the phosphorus cycle and the limitation of phosphorus on ecosystem productivity. The goals are to describe the diversity of the microbial life in the soil and discover mechanisms by which microbes in the soil extract phosphorus from the environment. Preliminary analyses suggest that there is potential for discovering novel bacterial groups and mechanisms of utilization of phosphorus.


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Ya, I am pumped up on BUGS, but WOW....

The world wide 10 year market can easily hit Trillions of dollars..Thats right Trillions with a capital T!

When the Microbe industry takes off, you will wish you had a piece..

We are talking about a $.04 a share stock with BUGS...Anything could happen on the long haul, but personaly, I am willing to take the risk..
 
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Im with you dustoff, now lets blast-off!!!!!!!!!
 
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Miracle" Microbes Thrive at Earth's Extremes

John Roach
for National Geographic News

September 17, 2004
For the past 30 years scientists have scoured the most inhospitable environments on Earth searching for life. Just about everywhere researchers look, they find it thriving in microscopic form.

These organisms, known as extremophiles, snuggle up to scalding hydrothermal vents in the Pacific Ocean. They cling to ice in Antarctica. They burrow in the high deserts of Chile and wallow in salty lake beds of East Africa.


Scientists continue to search for—and find—extremophiles everywhere from volcanic cauldrons in Russia to alkaline waters in China's Inner Mongolia. In the process, researchers are also beginning to tease out the organisms' secrets to life.


"We know that we are only scratching the surface of what is out there. At the same time, many people are trying to decipher how these organisms function," said Kenneth Stedman, a biologist with the Center for Life in Extreme Environments at Portland State University in Oregon.

Earth's most extreme environments are thought to resemble those on distant planets. Discovering organisms that thrive in such conditions broadens our understanding of the limits to life on Earth. Organisms also provide clues on where to search for extraterrestrial life.

Learning how extremophiles thrive has led to a variety of innovations. Scientists have developed novel compounds for the development of new drugs and enzymes that make better laundry detergents, cleaner paper production, and hydrogen for fuel cells.

"Experimentally, we are coming of age," said Frank Robb, a molecular biologist at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute in Baltimore.

Robb is the chair of Extremophiles 2004: Fifth International Conference on Extremophiles, a five-day gathering in Cambridge, Maryland, that begins Sunday. He expects about 320 scientists from around the world to attend the meeting to discuss the latest advances in the field.

Conference

So what constitutes an extremophile? Other than the fact that all extremophiles are microbial, there is no common bond that defines an extremophile, according to Stedman, the Portland State University biologist and a conference co-chair. Rather, the differences that distinguish extremophiles from the more mundane mesophiles (organisms that live in "normal" climates and environmental conditions) are subtle.

By deciphering the genomes of extremophiles, scientists are now making their greatest advances in this field. For example, researchers have identified the subtle differences that allow the cell walls of certain microbes to hold up at temperatures above 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius).


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http://sites.gizoogle.com/?url=http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051004/45318.html?.v=1
 
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From another board:

Good morning, I think once we get news on Mexico contracts we will have more posters on this board, for now they are scattered on other boards. I liked the ceo interview and these facts.

The Mexico operations, under the guidance of Sub-Surface Waste Management continued to generate record-breaking revenues each quarter this fiscal year (up 82% in first 3 months, 129% in six months, and 334% in nine months compared to prior year).

SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

In the interview his last words were more good news coming soon.
 
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Moving nice now. Just Hit New High of Day!
 
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UP UP.
 
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Katrina's Environmental Legacy

By Katharine Mieszkowski and Mark Benjamin in Meraux, Louisiana

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is failing to protect the Gulf Coast's homebound citizens from Katrina's poisons.

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A woman removes crucifixes from the wall of a home in New Orleans destroyed by Katrina.
"On behalf of Mayor C. Ray Nagin and the city of New Orleans, welcome home!" the mayor announced Sept. 25 in a public statement. "You are entering the city of New Orleans at your own risk. Standing water and soil may be seriously contaminated; avoid contact." Limit your exposure, the mayor continued, "to airborne mold and wear gloves, masks and other protective materials to protect yourself. You must supply your own protective equipment."

"I'll give you 10 bucks for your boots," says Donna Harney, a fourth-grade teacher, to a reporter wearing knee-high black waders. Harney is standing on the oil-caked driveway of her best friend's house on Jacob Drive in Meraux, just southeast of New Orleans. A headache-inducing stench fills the air. A faint waterline rings the house, just inches below the top of the front doors. A chocolate-brown line covers the bottom quarter of the house. That's the oil line.

It forms a bathtub ring around a row of 20 or so modest brick houses that stretch up and down the street. Most look salvageable from the outside, but that illusion is dispelled the moment you step inside. Behind every front door is a toxic junkyard, where the remains of each family's possessions, rearranged by floodwaters into garbled piles -- and infested by weeks of mold and rot -- are coated in a putrid mud, thick with crude.

"Oil is everywhere," says Harney with disgust. "It's encrusted on the vehicles. It's on the houses." It's also on Harney's blue-and-white sneakers. She says that every store within 100 miles is sold out of rubber boots. Driving to Meraux, Harney says, "I cried on my way in, I'm not ashamed to say."

An umbrella of environmental laws, including the Superfund law, gives the Environmental Protection Agency considerable authority -- and in some cases the responsibility -- to ensure messes get cleaned up right. And the mess in southern Louisiana, as EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson himself admits, is "the largest natural disaster we've faced."


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But Louisiana environmentalists, who for decades have battled oil companies and government agencies to improve the human and natural health of their polluted state, say EPA's tests are insufficient and its health warnings inadequate. "They read like 'Hints From Heloise,'" says Rick Hind, legislative director of the Greenpeace Toxics Campaign. National critics stress that EPA failed to comprehend the pollution that arose after the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11 and may be repeating the same mistakes in the Gulf Coast.

"That entire area has to be cleaned up before people move back in," says Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. "You could have tens of thousands of people getting seriously ill."

To describe the EPA's response to Katrina, "the two adjectives I would use are 'understaffed' and 'overwhelmed,'" says Oliver Houck, who runs the environment program at the Tulane University Law School. In past years, Houck says, federal and state agencies have been "primordial" in their failure to monitor pollution released from industrial facilities along "Cancer Alley," the swath of the Mississippi River that winds from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, dotted with 136 petrochemical plants and six refineries, all belching dense airborne toxins.

The oil spill in Meraux spouted from Murphy Oil Corp. Located in the working-class St. Bernard Parish, it's bordered by a farm of giant white circular tanks, where oil is stored for processing. During Katrina, one of the tanks ruptured, dumping raw crude into floodwaters, sewers and swimming pools. Murphy Oil says the spill is between 10,000 and 20,000 barrels. The U.S. Coast Guard puts it at 19,500 barrels, or 800,000 gallons. Today the oil and mud have dried and formed a cracked black layer of frosting on lawns and driveways.

Katrina caused at least 40 oil spills from Gulf Coast refineries and storage tanks, dumping more than 8 million gallons of crude into southern Louisiana towns, wetlands and shorelines. The Murphy spill is not the biggest. That honor goes to the one in Plaquemines Parish, where 3.7 million gallons of crude leaked from tanks.

The Exxon Valdez polluted Alaska's Prince William Sound with 11 million gallons of oil. But mopping up crude in the variegated Louisiana landscape will be far more difficult than it was in Alaska, where the oil was confined to one place. To date, according to the Coast Guard, 70,000 barrels of oil have dispersed into marshes and evaporated, while 55,000 barrels remain to be cleaned up. The fate of 2,000 underground tanks of petroleum products remains unknown.

Oil is not the only toxin that saturates Louisiana and threatens the health of residents returning to New Orleans and adjacent parishes. The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality reports that muck covering the area is contaminated with human waste and bacteria, including E.coli, a fecal bacterium. It estimates that between 1,000 and 5,000 railroad cars have been damaged by Katrina, including some carrying chlorine or sulfuric acid. The EPA says water may be polluted by arsenic and lead from paint and the batteries of 350,000 submerged cars. Shattered homes and businesses are contaminated with asbestos and mold.

Currently, with the EPA at the helm, state and local crews are trolling Louisiana's streets and waterways in trucks and boats, conducting water, soil and air tests. The EPA is posting the results on its Web site, accompanied by guidelines for returning citizens. It advises them to wear gloves, goggles and respiratory protection. It tells them to open windows to avoid explosive gases and possible carbon monoxide poisoning. Remove and discard wet material that may have mold or bacteria, it says, and avoid mixing household cleaners that can produce toxic fumes.

But environmentalists and EPA staffers say that environmental agencies are not conducting adequate and comprehensive tests, meaning that people are returning to the Gulf Coast without sufficient information about health hazards. Ultimately, the decision to allow people to return to the Gulf Coast resides with state and local authorities like Mayor Nagin. On its Web site, the EPA defines its role as merely helping decision makers make an informed decision. EPA deputy administrator Marcus Peacock told a House panel Sept. 29 that the EPA was responsible for "preventing, minimizing or mitigating threats to public health, welfare, or the environment."

But critics say the agency should be more active in preventing people from returning to the Gulf Coast. "The EPA has not done a thorough assessment of the contamination of [St. Bernard] parish or any other parishes that have been contaminated," says Hugh Kaufman, an EPA senior policy analyst at the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. On Sept. 12, EPA Science Advisory Board member Richard Gilbert stated that the EPA's current plan of sampling 24 affected areas was "very limited in scope" and didn't address the full spectrum of contamination throughout the area. "I expect that questions will be asked about whether the data are applicable to non-sampled flooded parts of Louisiana that are close to chemical plants or other potential sources of pollution," he said.

Appearing Sept. 29 before a House subcommittee on the environment, Erik D. Olson, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said it was the EPA's moral and legal obligation to warn and protect the nation's citizens. Yet based on NRDC's research in the Gulf Coast, he said, he was concerned that EPA was both delaying its test results and doing a poor job of communicating the results to people who didn't have Internet access. "Unfortunately, EPA apparently has decided to 'punt' to local authorities the responsibility to protect citizens' health in the wake of the massive Katrina-related oil and hazardous chemical releases," he said.

Long-term risks from the pollutants now being found in and around New Orleans include cancer, birth defects, spontaneous abortions and asthma. The EPA has also underplayed the threat of mold. Health experts say trillions of mold spores, exacerbated by the late summer heat, could sicken a large population of children, people with asthma, older residents, and people with weakened immune systems, the New York Times reports.

Houck says some illnesses might not show up for years or may never be identified by health authorities. Katrina wiped out many impoverished communities in southern Louisiana, and often indigent people cannot afford to go to doctors. "They are going to get sick and they are not going to know why," Houck says.

Despite the destruction and health dangers, the EPA has not taken measures to prevent people from returning to southern Louisiana. And Nagin seems intent on bringing people back fast. "There is a huge tension between redevelopment as soon as possible and cleanup as well as possible," Houck says. Jean Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, says the agency would like to proceed with more caution, but allowing people to return to their homes "is not really our decision. We can advise the mayor, but it is his decision whether or not he wants to bring people back in. That is not something we have control over."

The EPA is sending mixed messages. It recently issued a press release stating that levels of benzene, a known carcinogen, are "slightly elevated" around Murphy's Oil USA. But the actual test results, buried in fine print, reveal that benzene levels are 45 times higher than the state standard. Some of the EPA data has confused Nagin himself. At a Sept. 19 press conference, Nagin said an EPA report to him on the danger of returning to some neighborhoods was confusing. "We also looked at the [EPA] report as it relates to flooded areas," Nagin said. "And it was a very clever attorney who wrote the report. So it basically bounced on both sides of the issue and didn't really tell you much."

While the mayor may be prematurely opening the gates to New Orleans to get business humming again, people are driving past the grime and gunk -- and health warnings -- for the simple reason that they want to see their homes again and save what they can. "In America, your home is your castle, and now it's a contaminated castle," says Darryl Malek-Wiley, Louisiana environmental justice organizer for the Sierra Club. "People deal with that in all sorts of different ways. Some go into denial." And some, like Harney, who uses roofing tiles that have flown off her friend's house as steppingstones across the sludge on the driveway, go into shock.

Harney looks disgusted as she steps through the front door. The duplex is rented by Edie Labarriere, a single mother and Harney's best friend, who lived here with her two sons, ages 12 and 9, before Katrina. Since the hurricane, the family has been living with Harney at her house in Harahan, La. Just now, the Labarrieres are on their way here to salvage what's left of their things.

From the outside, the duplex doesn't look too bad. A yellow X is spraypainted on each of the two front windows, indicating that it's been checked out by search-and-rescue. The number 0 on both X's indicate that no one's been found, dead or alive.

Inside, three wooden kitchen chairs are lodged at crazy angles. They are stuck in a tar pit of thick, black, rancid goo, which is peppered with random household items: a clothes hanger, stray pieces of paper, and what was once a maroon raincoat. There's nowhere to step that isn't black mire, which holds everything within its oily grasp.

In the backyard, the children's bikes sit encrusted in filth. "I guess we won't have to take their bicycles home," she sighs. A hammock, ripped from its tree, lies plastered to the backyard fence, which now leans into the neighbor's yard. Near the back door, the muck on the ground grows smoky gray, then a sickly green. "Ewww," she says. "I gotta go in there, people. God, this stuff stinks. Am I a good friend or am I a good friend?"

Soon after Katrina, St. Bernard Parish president Henry Rodriguez dubbed the area "another Love Canal." A few weeks later, says parish spokesman Steve Cannizaro, Rodriguez consulted with the EPA, "and they told us the area was not toxic, and we decided everyone has a right to see their home, and so we let them back in."

Many citizens and activists in St. Bernard Parish, also home to a ExxonMobil refinery, wanted to return home but didn't trust the EPA. In late September, 180 residents of the parish met at a Holiday Inn in Baton Rouge, seeking information about pollution in their neighborhood. Everyone was full of questions: "What is EPA doing?" "How big was the spill?" "What is Murphy going to do?" In fact, St. Bernard residents are so suspicious of the local oil companies that over a year ago they persuaded the parish to hire an independent environmental engineer.

But today, says Kenneth Ford, president of St. Bernard Citizens for Environmental Quality, the engineer is nowhere to be found. "We're disappointed," says Ford. "Without his scientific proof that the parish is not contaminated, no one should be allowed in right now."

Cannizaro replies that the parish is comfortable with the EPA's advice to allow people to return. What's more, he says, the parish of 68,000 residents "is one step away from being financially destroyed; businesses are flat on their ass." People need to return and start buying and building again. "You can't operate a government without taxes," he says.

Canvassing the parish in late September is a four-man crew from Greenpeace. They have spent weeks living in a Cruise America R.V. with an aluminum boat strapped on top, documenting the environmental destruction on the Gulf Coast. They have taped the letters "TV" on the windshield of their Jeep to make passing military and police security checkpoints easier. In weeks of surveying the damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Greenpeace guys attest that they've seen some hideous sights, like an offshore oil rig in the Gulf that's been ripped from its moorings and turned upside down, leaving a five-mile-long oil slick in its wake.

John Hocevar, a marine biologist for Greenpeace, says that 40 percent of the coastal wetlands in Mississippi have been so damaged they're no longer able to perform their ecological function as a natural water filter and habitat to birds and wildlife. In Port Arthur, Texas, they saw a refinery so damaged by Hurricane Rita that two of its storage tanks had imploded. But the neighborhood surrounding Murphy Oil is by far the worst that they've encountered.

"This community could have rebuilt but Murphy Oil killed it," says Mark Floegel, a toxics campaigner for Greenpeace. "It would have been bad. But the oil spill makes it so much worse."

Currently, the company is working with the Coast Guard and the EPA to mop up the spill. Dump trucks, steam shovels and hydraulic pumps scoop up contaminated soil around the tank and pump the oil into tankers. The workmen are dressed in heavy boots and yellow hazard pants. One tells the Greenpeace crew flatly: "Nobody here is going to answer any of your questions."

The Murphy spill was such a direct hit to the neighborhood that the company is already facing two class-action lawsuits brought by lawyers on behalf of St. Bernard residents. Another suit is being brought by the owners of the Paris Palms Shopping Center in Chalmette for the damages it suffered. In response, Murphy has announced that it will give $5 million to hurricane relief to the area through the United Way, the local school system and the parish itself.

The oil spill is clearly the final indignity after a brutal storm. But environmentalists fear that the real story isn't getting out.

"So far, from what we've seen, we don't really have any reason to believe that what we're being told is really the whole story," says Hocevar. "If you don't look, there's nothing to see," he continues. "We have an administration that has been cutting back on the EPA investigative enforcement." According to a 2004 report by the Environmental Integrity Project, the number of civil lawsuits filed by the federal government under the Bush administration dropped 75 percent from the number in the last three years of the Clinton reign. Eric Schaeffer, the former head of the EPA enforcement office, who oversaw the project, told the Los Angeles Times, "If you're a big energy company, you're basically on holiday from enforcement."

Greenpeace isn't conducting independent testing of the air or groundwater, but other groups are. Under normal circumstances, a small nonprofit, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, distributes air-sampling kits to residents who live near refineries and petrochemical plants so that they can independently monitor what's being spewed into the air around them. But post-Katrina, the group sent a professional sampling team from Dynamac Corp. into St. Bernard Parish to take 10 soil samples. The results are due soon. NRDC also plans to work with local environmental groups to conduct a battery of independent tests.

Senate Republicans, led by Environment and Public Works Committee chairman James Inhofe -- who has declared that global warming is a hoax -- have introduced a bill that would allow EPA to waive clean water and air laws during the cleanup. The EPA itself is drafting a plan that would allow the agency to waive state regulations on smog emissions or pollutants pouring out of coal plants. In response, Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said: "It's bad enough that big polluters want to exploit the tragedy to pollute more, but it's even worse that Washington Republicans want to help them do it."

A draft for the EPA plan states that for the agency to act there must be "an Act of God or another event that could not have reasonably been foreseen or prevented." "They call it an act of God," says Malek-Wiley of Louisiana's Sierra Club. "But I was just in St. Bernard Parish and it was heartbreaking to see that people's lives are now coated with a film of oil from Murphy. God didn't put the oil tanks in those people's backyards."

At a Sept. 14 press conference, EPA administrator Johnson defensively stated, "Everyone is looking to EPA for what are the results and are these done in a scientifically appropriate and sound way? We're doing that. We're not trying to be bureaucratic. We want to make sure the results are ones that we can all stand by."

Critics say they don't believe the EPA is trying to cover up the widespread destruction and health hazards in southern Louisiana. But they have little faith in the federal agency's ability to assess the grievous problems and be forthright with the public. As we know, it's not first time the EPA has faced this issue.

The collapse of the Twin Towers four years ago blanketed lower Manhattan in a dust of asbestos, lead, glass fibers and concrete. Within days, then-EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman was assuring New Yorkers that the air was safe and encouraged them to go back to work at Wall Street. "I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C., that their air is safe to breathe," Whitman said in an EPA press release a week after the towers fell.

But an EPA inspector general's report in August 2003 concluded that Whitman did not have sufficient data to support her calming tone. The report says the White House "convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones" about the environment at Ground Zero. Critics have long speculated that the White House wanted to get New York's financial motor, Wall Street, up and running again -- pollution be damned.

To date, nobody knows what the environmental impact has been on the thousands of people, including pregnant women, who lived and worked near Ground Zero. A study by the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York showed that nearly 80 percent of 9,000 first responders may have suffered some lung ailments and half still had those problems a year after the attacks. Several studies are under way on the possible long-term effects on pregnant women and infants living near Ground Zero.

Twelve Manhattan residents sued EPA last year alleging that the agency may have endangered the health of tens of thousands of workers and residents in lower Manhattan. That case is pending.

Pressure to open New Orleans, says Kaufman of EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, is as intense today as it was on Wall Street soon after Sept. 11. "The appearance of 'back-to-normal' gets local industry going, then real estate, and so on," he says. "It's the same issue today, except that the locations and contaminants are different, and people talk with a different accent."

A week after the attacks in New York, the EPA instructed citizens to use a wet rag or wet mop to clean their apartments, though in some cases the dust may have been contaminated by asbestos. On Sept. 14, 2005, the EPA instructed citizens returning to New Orleans to "wear gloves, goggles" and use "respiratory protection" when handling material that may contain asbestos, a known carcinogen.

The two messages are "eerily similar," New York Democrat Rep. Nadler wrote in a letter to President Bush on Sept. 21. "I am deeply concerned that many of the same mistakes made by EPA in response to 9/11 are being repeated on the Gulf Coast."

"This is a potential catastrophe," Nadler says today. "We don't want two catastrophes. We had maybe a thousand killed from the hurricane. You want another thousand killed because of the environment? Maybe five thousand?" Nadler wants to see the EPA conduct a more thorough environmental assessment of the city, rather than just through its spot samples. He also wants EPA to ensure that private companies are held liable for contamination.

That wish, according to environmentalists, shows few signs of coming true. Both the EPA and the Louisiana DEQ have signaled that they will rely on regulated industries to police themselves and tell the government if there has been some major spill. The EPA administrator during the Clinton administration, Carol M. Browner, once announced an initiative to crack down on illegal pollution along the Mississippi River because some companies could not be trusted. Browner at the time said there was an "unprecedented amount of illegal pollution in the Mississippi River drainage." Asked at the Sept. 14 press conference about leaks or damage from companies that line the drainage, or Cancer Alley -- Johnson said he was "not aware" of any problems. "The companies are going to do their own assessments, so we're all working very cooperatively to try to do an assessment."

Today, more than a month after Katrina's wrath, taking inventory of the wholesale environmental destruction remains premature -- for both the EPA and the activists. "We are still in the assessment stage in a lot of this," says Kelly of the Louisiana DEQ. "The problem is so monumental that nobody has dealt with anything like this before."

As she steps gingerly through the muck in the Labarrieres' backyard, Harney is cheered when she finds a crocheted picture that spells "Labarriere." The hanging is a gift she'd bought for the family and promised Edie's 9-year-old, Andrew, she'd try to recover. She carefully extracts the cream-colored crochet from its glass frame, thinks about trying to salvage the smudged pane, and decides against it. She folds up the crochet carefully and puts it in her pocket. Taking a long, panoramic look at the surrounding debris, her cheer vanishes. "You can't live in this place," she says. "You can't live down here."
 
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September 16, 2005
[UPDATE 9-16] Katrina's environmental and toxic legacy
Katrina struck Gulf Coast counties with a heavy concentration of oil and chemical industry facilities. So, part of their legacy of hazardous waste has churned up, awash, and coming back to haunt us. Plus, toxic chemical storage that may have been spilled. (Other Katrina posts here.)

{9-16} Write EPA to better investigate and monitor the toxic waste disaster in New Orleans -- via OMB Watch. OMB also has a database of NOLA toxic chemical sites (thanks to long-time data guru Rick Puchulsky). The Sierra Club, besides handling right-wing attacks, has a fine post by Carl Pope.

It's too early to estimate the environmental and toxic aspects of the hurricane's damage, but here is some news and links:

{9-16} Coast Guard reveals more on oil spills (HT EffectM). Indeed, the spills are now 2/3 the size of the Exxon Valdez, for which "a team of economists estimated the aggregate willingness to pay of U.S. households to prevent another oil spill of that size in Prince William Sound to have a lower bound of $2.8 billion and a mean of $7.19 billion. (HT Enviro Econ).

{9-16} "The Mother of All Toxic Cleanups" reports BusinessWeek. EPA Chief on their hard choices, including the reg waivers (AP). An interview with EPA whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman criticizing the agency. (HT EffectM)

{New} More environmental resources. CS Monitor on toxics cleanup. EPA's updates. Fascinating info/photos on environmental impacts via US Geological Survey.

{9-8 update} EPA reports that it tested "priority pollutants such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs), total metals, pesticides, herbicides, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). ... Lead concentrations in water exceeded drinking water action levels. These levels are a concern if a child ingests large amounts of flood water. For the additional chemicals tested, we have yet to detect contaminant levels that would pose human health risks. ... EPA testing has focused on neighborhoods and not in heavily industrialized areas."

"Michael McDaniel, the Louisiana secretary of environmental quality, said it was "simply unfeasible" to attempt to filter the water before flowing it into the lake. The EPA granted the Army Corps of Engineers a waiver from treating floodwater before sending it into Lake Pontchartrain." Read interview. Any public input on this waiver?

{9-8 from Gristmill} "An article on CNN.com today quotes Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Mike McDaniel: "Everywhere we look there's [an oil] spill ... there's almost a solid sheen over the area right now." The story also describes destroyed sewage plants, natural gas leaks, and oozing vehicles of all shapes and sizes. It is, as McDaniel says, 'almost unimaginable'."

{News 9-2): Explosion at a chemical depot in New Orleans. Potentially huge oil spill into the Mississippi.

{News 9-6} Reports on the toxic brew and e-coli situation by CNN (E.g., Rodney Mallett, communications director for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, say there do not appear to be any choices other than to pump the water into Lake Pontchartrain or the Mississippi River, which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, a key maritime spawning ground. "I don't see how we could treat all that water," Mallett said.") Reuters (Bass and Murphy oil spills, 25 damaged sewage treatment plants)


[New] Just received an email from a guy who both warned about (in 2002) and survived hurricane Katrina, New Orleans environmental reporter Mark Schliefman, sent me this email:


Bit too tired to go thru all the toxic potential involved here, but in
general, you've got some 250,00 batches of household chemicals mixed
with leaking gasoline and kerosene from underground tanks, cleaning fluid
from dry cleaners, chemicals from a variety of businesses, etc. Then
you've got a myriad of tanks containing who knows what that would have
floated off their footings, breaking their connections and spewing their
contents. (9-2-05)

New Orleans now 'hazardous waste site,' experts say by Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer (August 31, 2005) Thanks and hat tip to Confined space.

Dave Roberts at Gristmill put up many links on environmental damage and debate about Katrina. Likewise, Risk World on damage to oil and energy resources.

The finger-pointing has already begun. Nobody causes a hurricane. Of course, there's a history behind the limited preparedness of this heavily industrialized region. But who bears responsibility for the concentration of industrial toxicality in the poor counties of Louisiana and Mississippi? The responsibility is dispersed, like barrels of pollutants in a toxic stew.

Kaspit

{Update} Gov't portal for environmental info to help interpret the Katrina and New Orleans situation.

About the makings of a disaster like Katrina, Impact Analysis and Mark Schleifstein's work. About fingerpointing (e.g., Agonist) , for instance, The Commons blog. For a quick photo of media justice, Hungry Blues.
 
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Just a thought..

Why can't microbes be used to clean up a bio-engineering problem that goes astray..?

As in spores from a bio-engineenered plant that gets loose from a facility..

Well, guess what, it may be happening right now in Hawaii.

I am going to do newspaper search in Hawaii to see if I can find it..Volunteers?
 
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Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
$1/share: Did you know that BUGS was shipping product to the East Coast for dairy applications? And how about that rocket fuel cleanup contract in Southern California? It's getting mighty close! And how about 'several' Mexican contracts with some extremely nice numbers involved? And that is just the beginning. BUGS will be working in Mexico for many years to come. And don't forget the rest of Central and South America. Did you see the new website in English, Spanish, and Portuguese

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The above is from another board.
Things are starting to heat up again..

I know I read like a pumper, but hey, I am really getting excited about making some serious dough on this stock!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
I see that BUGS got the Portuguese site up and running.
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
BUGS 500,000,000 A/S
Under 300,000,000 O/S

Ameritrade shows under 220,000,000 O/S

Insider buying going on..

Transparent SEC filings.

Hmmmm, what to do, what to do?
 
Posted by mastermind555 on :
 
a little insider buying never hurt a stock...i guess they think the stock is undervalued
 
Posted by Superbee383 on :
 
Sounds good!

California Orange Grower Using BUGS to Increase Crop Yield
Business Wire - October 10, 2005 11:14

CARLSBAD, Calif., Oct 10, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB:BUGS), announced today that Bio-Con Microbes, Inc., a majority owned subsidiary specializing in agricultural products and services, has supplied Bi-Agra(TM), a proprietary blend of natural microbes, to a California orange grower to increase crop yield on low yielding areas. Preliminary projections suggest that the microbe treated area will out-produce other similar areas by ten percent or more and validate the product's use for much larger areas. These results are typical of past performances of the product on strawberries, tomatoes, sugar cane and other food products produced in the U.S. and Mexico.

Robert Brehm, CEO, shared his enthusiasm for the product by saying, "The Bi-Agra(TM) product line has shown extraordinary results over the past twenty years they have been used in the U.S. and Mexico. Many products such as strawberries, squash, tomatoes, and sugar cane have already shown dramatic yield improvements in both quantity and weight per acre and hectare with a reduction in water and fertilizer requirements. These improvements not only yield lower cost production for the grower, but safer, more natural fruit and vegetables for the consumer because of the reduction in chemical fertilizers needed."

Brehm added, "Our corporate strategy for the microbial technology is to use Sub-Surface Waste Management (OTCBB:SSWM), to clean up the soil and groundwater in developing nations which export food products to the U.S. and then have the growers use our Bi-Agra(TM) products to grow these products, better, faster, cheaper and safer for the consumers of the world. As SSWM gains traction in Mexico environmental clean-up projects and we start to commercially roll-out our Bio-Con products and services, BUGS' strategic plan for cleaning up the world's messes and feeding the masses will start to become a reality for our loyal shareholders and management team."

About U.S. Microbics Inc.

U.S. Microbics is a business development and holding company that acquires, develops and deploys innovative environmental technologies for soil, groundwater and carbon remediation, air pollution reduction, modular drinking water systems, and agriculture enhancement. For more information on the company or its Strategic Partner Program, contact Robert Brehm at 760-918-1860 x102 or visit the website at http://www.bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words ``estimate,'' ``anticipate,'' ``believe,'' ``expect,'' or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the Company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the ``Risk Factors,'' ``Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation'' and other sections of the Company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the Company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: U.S. Microbics, Inc.

U.S. Microbics Inc.
Robert Brehm, 760-918-1860 x102
http://www.bugsatwork.com

Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
I updated the BUGS message board on IHUB.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Starting to move up.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Here comes .035
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
PR out!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Winsted Holdings, Inc. Provides Financial Guidance and Corporate Updates
Tuesday October 18, 8:45 am ET


NEWPORT BEACH, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Oct 18, 2005 -- Winsted Holdings (OTC BB:WHLI.OB - News), a Business Development Company (BDC), today announces financial guidance and other corporate updates.
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For fiscal year 2005, Winsted Holdings is projecting approximately $1,500,000 in total revenue, an increase of $1,476,309 or 6200% from fiscal year 2004. In terms of per share figures, Winsted is expecting net revenue per share of $.0014 at the current capitalization of Winsted common stock. Revenue gains are attributed to the success of Winsted's MedSpa portfolio companies. Winsted will file its third quarter results for the period ending 9/30/2005 in mid-November, which will also reflect our recent 90% acquisition of GaeaCare Syndicate Partners, Inc.

We currently have 5 MedSpa locations under construction, including our recently announced Omaha location. We feel each of these locations will near $50,000-100,000 in revenue each month under the successful model we've implemented at the Charlotte Laser Center. Additionally, we are negotiating with 12 other MedSpa franchisees in which Winsted would book a management and consulting fee of $58,500 each.

Going forward, we are excited to be in initial discussions to take a minority interest in a publicly traded company that we feel will be of value to Winsted and its shareholders. We also have several private acquisitions, in various stages of completion, that the company expects to announce in the coming months.

About GaeaCare Syndicate Partners, Inc.

GaeaCare Syndicate Partners, Inc., 90% owned by Winsted Holdings Inc. (OTC BB: WHLI), is a proactive environmental products and services corporation that intends to become a leading environmental cleanup, emergency response, and environmental remediation company by the use of new computer systems technology, sensor technology, communications technology, systems concepts and microbial environmental cleanup treatment to serve the Homeland Security and environmental industries. Sub-Surface Waste Management, Inc. (OTC BB:SSWM.OB - News), a U.S. Microbics company (OTC BB:BUGS.OB - News), is a 10% equity holder. For more information on GaeaCare visit http://www.ags-gaeacare.com/.

About MedSpa Solutions Inc.

MedSpa Solutions Inc. of Irvine, California, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Winsted Holdings Inc. (OTC BB:WHLI.OB - News). Medical Spas are fast becoming the facility of choice among women and men seeking rejuvenating skin care procedures. At MedSpa Solutions Inc., not only are our customers treated with the best that technology has to offer, they also get expert consultations from our skilled medical staff. Our trend-setting spa-like facilities, combined with our friendly staff, are all you need for the best skin care experience ever. Our facilities offer FDA-approved procedures like Botox, Laser Hair Removal, IPL-Skin Rejuvenation, Microdermabrasion, Chemical Peels, Collagen, and Leg Vein Treatment. We work only with the most advanced laser equipment to achieve your desired results. Our medical staff is one of our most valued assets, and they are trained in a culture of warmth, friendliness, and customer service. Everything at the spa is designed with your comfort and convenience in mind, even our business hours which are flexible to adjust to your needs. Making you look good and feel good is what we are here for!
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
We have friends in all parts of the world!!

http://investprofi.de/index2.html
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
A post from RB:

The Company U.S. Microbics (ticker symbol: BUGS) has recently posted a profitable quarter. Company stated revenues for the next five years are expected to reach $100 million. Share price is just starting to move upwards. "Letters of Intent" by Fortune 500 Companies are "signed" and awaiting full production delivery of microbial-blend (bugs) from U.S. Microbics newly established California West Coast Fermentation Facility.

This Company has the ability to sell environmental assisting microbial product technology into just about any International business, qovernment, munincipalities, production facilities, agriculture, aqua-culture, oil fields, education, restaurants, golf course... facility. The Board of Advisor Directors read like a Who's Who of International Nobel Laureate prize winners. The technology is proprietary and covered by U.S. and foreign patents and the share float is small. Management seems to know where they are headed... volume is just starting to heat up as... is the share price and they appear to be meeting stated objectives. The microbial blend of "bugs" is being used to increase agricultural production output and diminish herbicides and pesticide use. This technology was also used to clean up the aftermath of the Gulf War oil spills..... The Company expects to reach a minimum $4 price level by September of this year. They are shareholder driven and are an S.E.C. fully reporting company. From their website:

"The Company mission is to profitably apply, develop, train, acquire,
protect, license, and transfer XyclonyX technologies consisting of
patents, knowledge, products, processes and people in the global
environmental, agriculture, and natural resource marketplace.

The Company's objective is to establish itself as a leading provider of environmental technology and products to companies on a worldwide basis by licensing its superior technology, which meets governmental
standards, is environmentally friendly, easy to manufacture and apply
and yields high profit for its licensees.

U.S. Microbics (USMX), [OTCBB: BUGS] is building an environmental
technology conglomerate which could have revenues over $100 Million in
the next five years. Using the proprietary microbial technology, patents and unique culture collection developed over 30 years, acquired through its wholly-owned technology subsidiary, XyclonyX, USMX believes it can build the foundation for the international commercialization of this previously successful technology. USMX is restarting a known valuable technology, using proprietary products and only needs capital, people and product distribution. Unlike other companies who need to develop a product or technology and find a market and customers to sell it to, USMX already has products that have been developed, have sold for millions of dollars, use advanced technology unavailable to other companies, and have a proven world-wide market with applications ranging from oil field cleanup to increased food production in third world countries. With existing Letters of Intent for its products and services, USMX is truly on the verge of releasing and capitalizing on an enormous amount of technology for beneficial use that can touch the lives of every person on earth."
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
quote:
Originally posted by Peaser01:
We have friends in all parts of the world!!

http://investprofi.de/index2.html

Can anyone speak this language? Care to translate from our European friends?

Look at all the hits on this BUGS site at the bottom of the home page!
 
Posted by carlucho on :
 
go...bugs
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
BUY Confirmed on American Bulls Dot Com...

Yes go BUGS!

Where is the FEMA contract????
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
Translating German to English:

http://www.freetranslation.com/

Here is the German BUGS investors site:

http://investprofi.de/index2.html
 
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Dann ruf' Robert mal an [Smile]
 
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Any movement today?
 
Posted by jmichael7 on :
 
definitely ready here imo

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Posted by maumee river rat on :
 
how did you do that jmichael???
 
Posted by jmichael7 on :
 
.03 / .031

9 x 1 now
 
Posted by jmichael7 on :
 
very carefully..

naa.. really kooool software!

;0) lol
 
Posted by maumee river rat on :
 
what is it??
 
Posted by jmichael7 on :
 
i think you should be able to click on the image to get their homepage

[ October 24, 2005, 11:05: Message edited by: jmichael7 ]
 
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volume here..
 
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From: "Robert Brehm"
Date: Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:33 am

"On vacation last week. Back now. Should be some great news over next two weeks."

Robert Brehm, CEO
California Businessman of the Year
U.S. Microbics, Inc.
Public Stock Symbol: BUGS
phone: 760-918-1860 x102
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
SSWM Reaches $1MM Key Milestone in Remediation Contract in Mexico
Wednesday November 2, 9:45 am ET
Manufacturing Company Site Clean-Up Progresses Smoothly


CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 2005--Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (OTCBB:SSWM - News) announced it has mobilized personnel to commence a new phase on its existing project in Torreon, Mexico, that has now exceeded $1 million in total contract revenue to date.
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Bruce Beattie, President of SSWM, stated: "SSWM engineers will kick off the next phase of work for this confidential client with manufacturing operations in Mexico to install, operate and maintain an in situ (below ground surface) remediation treatment system to clean up sub-surface soils under an active production facility site. SSWM engineers will use both conventional and biological technologies to remediate heavy petroleum-based machine oils to acceptable regulatory standards. Our most recent work to date has been to excavate contaminated soils with minimal impact to production operations and treat the material using the patented Bio-Raptor(TM) process on site in an adjacent open area within the facility for final removal as clean soil once cleanup goals are achieved."

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

A subsidiary of U.S. Microbics (OTCBB:BUGS - News), Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services, including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste cleanup treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its expertise and technology by forming strategic alliances and joint ventures with well-established engineering firms.
 
Posted by Peaser01 on :
 
From todays chat with CEO Robert Brehm:

The future for US Microbics, Inc.(BUGS) over the coming months and years is very bright IMHO. Mr. Brehm along with everyone else are expecting very nice contracts from Mexico in the future. SSWM is currently working on a contract that may equal $2MM. This is the contract that was in today's PR, currently $1MM has been paid, up to $2MM estimated with continued planned work.

This contract is the beginning. There are contract proposals that are awaiting the Univerity's approval this very moment. They may be approved at any time. Mr. Brehm's expectations are highly set. We look forward to hearing from him again. He also answered many other questions that I will not delve into at this moment.

The contracts are currently the main thought on shareholders minds at this time. I am extremely confident in the work that is/will be going on in Mexico.

With the contracts coming in Mexico, there should not be any need to release any more S-8's as revenue will be generated. BUGS is looking for contracts of $50-$100MM in the next few years.
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
Stockguru.com: Guru Alerts for Thursday, November 3, 2005 - QTEK, AOOR, BUGS, BRVO
11/3/05

Dallas, Texas, Nov 03, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Stock Guru Alerts for Thursday include Quintek Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: QTEK), Apollo Resources International, Inc. (OTCBB: AOOR), U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS) and Bravo! Foods International Corp. (OTCBB: BRVO).

U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS) traded as much as 26.92% over open on Wednesday.

U.S. Microbics, Inc. operates as a business development and holding company that facilitates and develops the deployment of environmental technologies. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in two divisions, USM Solutions and USM Capital. USM Solutions division manufactures, develops, and markets proprietary microbial technologies that provide natural solutions to various environmental problems. The company's microbes or bugs can be used to break down various hydrocarbon substances, including oil, diesel fuel, methyl tertiary butyl ether, Tetrachloroethene, certain toxic waste, and certain water and soil contamination. USM Capital division (UC) provides various services, including management consulting services, administrative services, and investor relations services. UC also facilitates the exchange of technologies and customers with the subsidiaries and their client companies.
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
TwinTrader.com: Twin Trader Alerts for Thursday, November 3, 2005 BUGS, CGHI, MOBL, QMMG
11/3/2005

Dallas, Texas, Nov 03, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Twin Trader Alerts for Thursday include U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS), Centurion Gold Holdings (OTCBB: CGHI), MobilePro Corp. (OTCBB: MOBL) and Quest Minerals and Mining (OTCBB: QMMG).
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
What happened in yesterday's conference call? Does someone know where a transcript is posted? Who asked the questions? And what were the answers? Thanks [Smile]
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
here is the chat:

">": answer Mr Brehm

> Good evening all
hi Mr. Brehm
Hallo Nr. Brehm hi
Hello Mr. Brehm Hi Hr. Brehm!
Hello Mr. Brehm

nice to see you
good evening
thx for the good news!
> you must all be buying stock today!

should we?
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Hi Mr. Blehm, my first question has to do with the settlemensts between BUGS and Mexiko..what for NEws can
we accept?
you have the questions from german Investors?
A bit. L?lL
> Yes I have the questions - 10 in total
yes
5 Mio volume in US!!
quite impressive
Yep, Might see 10mil bv close. 1 more hour to go

Mr. Brehm, we hope we will see more good news next time....

> Mexico is a wonderful opportunity for BUGS and SSWM. We already have a million dollar contract which is still ongoing. Additional contracts are awaiting zignature as we speak.

Can you say us something about the personal form BUGS?how many workers have you?
Do all the Hurricans effect your company, in positiv ways?

Is the hurricane damage in Mexico causing setbacks to possible new contracts?

Can you say us something about the personal from BUGS? how many workers have you? and in mexico?

> More 1nfo on mexioo can be found on the www.bugsatwork.com/investor.htm page (at the bottom under CEOinterview.
Here is general Info recap:
Mexico in 2004 enacted the similar environmental laws that we enacted back in the 1970's in the U.S., and created their own Environmental Protection Agency. They now want to enforce these environmental laws according to their agreements under NAFTA and The World Trade Organisation treaties. However, they do not want to
repeat all of the problems that have plagued the U.S. environmental market over the last thirty years, so they have taken a fresh
Mexico in 2004 enacted the similar environmental laws that we enacted back in the 1970's in the U.S., and created their own Environmental Protection Agency. They now want to enforce these environmental laws according to their agreements under NAFTA and The World Trade Organization treaties. However, they do not want to repeat all of the problems that haue plagued the U.S. environmental market over the last thirty vearz, so the7 have taken a fresh

if alot of Citys get overfloadded does these means that you get more orders?
seeing that the Water should be cleaned...
how many people Works for BUGS?

> Let me speak about hurricanes and disastors in general
SSWM is NOT an emergency response company, but cleans
up the water and contaminated soll after the event occurs. As such, the hurricanes cause contamination and we are given the opportunity to bid on the work, we are glad to do so. However only 1% of the hurricane work in the USA has gone to Small business and 99% has gone to pre-approved governrnent contractors on the Corp of Engineers li
are there some other companies who are working in the saure range?
when do you expect orders for patent no 6905603 b2, the carhon reactivation technology
what is the total estimated size of the contracts in Mexico that are waiting approval?
Vae have about 15 people at BUGS and many contractors. Our Labor company partner in mexico has 100's of people which we can use on projects. Our goal is not to have lots of people but to manage the projects and employ local workers to heip cleanup their own country. Our overhead (burden) is lese and we make more profit and the local ecnnnmv is st,imulated

in which countries is BUGS active?

> Let me speak to mexico contracts and our business in general. In the environmental business, we usually are asked to Write an assessment report defining the magnitude of the problem and engineering the solution and arriving at a total cost. many projects have undetermined costs until samples are taken and the digging starte.

How do vou see the general situation, with your shares? Since 1 Month it's loosing almost every day on value, even do the News are in fact good!
so is there like a big hidden order that the shareholders may suppose?
are there any contracts besides the one in today's PF where you have already sampled the area?
or how is that to explain?

> More on contracts. In our current $1MM contract we did an assessment report for $50,000 AND THE CONTRACT TOTAL IS ESTIMATED AT $1mm TO $2mm WHEN COMPLETE. Our current assessment contracts awaiting approval are near $1MM which could (I said could not will) possibly have $10-$25MM in total cleanup contracts once we have engineered the solution. We would like to think we 'will get all the cleanup work, but we may also have to work with other compa

okay, thank you
but these are nice prospects.

> BUGS is currently in the USA, Mexico and has contacts in Germany with a current company which is reorganizing to be able to use our technology. We are also investigating many other contacts in brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela, China, Malaysia and South America. hie haue a lot of interest from brazil and that is why part of our website is in Portuguese.
Great

> Meine Deutsch is nicht au qurit, bitte english!

you say china, but what are you doing in china and what do you expect in china?the big china
wenn das suellen hört

I am very impressed Sir!

wenn sue dass hör...werd mich freuen

More an mexico. We have been asked to provide assessment proposals for many sites in Mexico. And we have submitted the proposals to the proper authorities and through the University. We expect to hear about their acceptance and funding any time, but remember we are in a foreign country and they move at their own pace. We can help their country clean up many of their drinking water problems and soll contamination and they have solicited our hel

is lt correct, which becomes active an public relation-agency for lt?
yes thats right.

> We expect about $ 1MM in assessment contracts which could lead to $10-$25MM in cleanup projects over several years. We are also being asked (as stated in prior PR), to provide proposals for emergency response programs, river and refinery cleanups, education seminars and other infrastructure programs to help make the Mexico EPA more successful. We think we are in a good position

the patent was anniLunee!_i en lune 16th - a solution for a 400rtan/year usd probier'
everybody says that in 30 years we have not enought drinking water. do you think that the technologie of bugs will have great thimes in the future?
by the way: RT
Can you handle contracts which could lead to $lOmm-$25mtt without problems?

> our latest patent for Bio-GAC™ has several interests from both large and small companies. We have not used lt in mexico yet, but is has been used successfully in large refinery in california and most importantly can be used as new technology WITHOUT a new permit being required for the facility. It is vey cot efffective to not have to exchange dirty carbon for new carbon. We are about 1/2 the price to use compared to cleaning existinq carbo
Questions?

To expect orders from this patent?
yes about the techology of bugs and de future? the problem with the drinking water...
what's the latest status of your Joint venture withwaterchef inc.
what is the future of BUGS and Winston Holdings Inc?
Mr. Brehm, Does US Microbics Inc have any plans on releasing any more S-8's in the future? This has been the stock bashers best friend in regards to BUGS.

> Yes we must change our habits as earthlings so that we have more food, better water and less messes. The BUGS technology currently is used for cleaning water and soll. We also have technology for increasing the size and quallty of agricultural products such as tomatoes, wheat, basic food groups grown on farms as well as increasing the size and yellds of shrimp, fishm shell fish products. Our goal os to provide products and technoloq7 to feed t

ok.thank you sir!

> Winstead holding is doing the business development for the Gaeacare project. They are trying to secure the project contracts and they need out engineering support to write the proposales an carry out the work for any cleanup. We are a partner and a vendor to the Gaeacare, but the business development is being handled by them and any future business is based upon their efforts. We have mang more opportunities in mexico to work on at this time.

on jan. 10th you Said your goal is to increase gross revenue to $5-$10hw in 2005 - can you still achieve this size?

> We autorize the S-8's tor our employees option plans. But authorized stock does not mean it will all be issued. We are currently filing an SB-2 update in SSWM that will provide an equity line for SSWM up to $6MM and can be used for working capital and projects. When that is approved by the SEC (shortly we hope), we should not have a need to use any more 5-8's. Our record breaking revenue this year has helped us with cash flow and we have iss

what do you think about a publicity in USA/Mexico?

> In January of 2005 we were still actively involved with our acquisition program and we doing due diligence an a potential $80MM acquisition. We expected top complete this acquisition (and one other) in 2005. However, our due diligence turned up some major problems and we turned down the acquisition after spend a lot of time and money. The other acquisition is still available, but the Mexico opportunity allows us to grow very much faster so we

Sir, you were saying we have iss

> Upon award of the expected mexico assessment contracts AND the sunsequent cleanup contracts, we should be able to have $10MM to $25MM in expected revenue in 2006.
what's the latest status of your Joint venture with waterchef Inc.

> Our PR for mexico related business is usually released in spanish in mexico city and in English in the US. We have received good response from the people of mexico and they appreciate our efforts to date. We look forward to helping them further.

The JV with C-Trade using the WaterChef machines is in progress. We are waiting for C-Trade to place the machines into locations where we can both enjoy a good revenue stream. The potential is great but the timing in still incertain.
more questions?

mr. brehm and what can you say about the year's result of 2005?

is bugs a potential candidate for an aquisition, friendly or unfriendly?

> Our last quarter (ending September 30) was also very good as the first three record breaking quarters. Final results havent been given because they are subject to audit and final adjustments. Business was very good as preveiusly stated in PR and we expect the quarter ending 12/31 to also be impressive.

Great

and give the german financial organization more direct Information.

sounds very good Sir

> Share price predictions are hard to do. BUT if revenue and earnings are rauch higher as we expect with Mexico, 1 would expect share prices to be higher also. SSWM and BUGS should track together. Higher SSWM should mean hinger SShE. Since there are fewer shares of SSWM in the float, I would exoct lt to go up faster with the same demand of buying

What role did honca investments play and why did they
Constantly selling shares?

The share price of BUGS is currently attractive at lt' pps.

> As far as being acquired, I would expect that as soon as we hit $50MM to $100MM in revenues, we would be an excellent candidate for acquisition. That seems to be the size level of interest in the environmental industry. We do have anti-takeover provisions in effect. We also have several major Investment entitie looking at major expansion help for the agricultural growth enhancement business with out BI-Agra(TM) and Bio-Miracle(TM) products.
Boca Investments is a business development firm we use and pay with restricted shares. as they reach 12 months old, he sells them for expenses. We have had excellent work from him.

thank you very much

> I believa BUGS (and SSWM) are at very attractive prices today.

why did you seil at 0,04

What is your invQlvtmtnt with MotorSports Emporium?

> I bought a lot of shares of BUGS recently and consolidated accounts and had a small block of BUGS I sold so I could consolidate my holdings. I currently have more shares then ever before in BUGS and also SSWM.

how many shares BUGS are in your depot?
18 Mio?

so do I!

> I am a major shareholder in MSEP but do not get involved in the day to day operations. BUGS and SSWM are my major efforts.
Yes my BUGS holdings are over 18MM
You can see my hoLdings an the websit_ www.bugsatwork.com/investor.htm - just look at the fort. 3,4 5 filings for both SS1'M and BUGS Any more Q's?

Hello Robert, sorry I'm to Tate. BUGS has a reputaton for quality. That's good!

weitere Fragen?

> Yes we like to do things right!
Thank you for the opportunity of chatting - please email me at bob*bugsatwork.com


cu Mr. Brehm
THANX for chat!
Thank you very much Mister Brehm!
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
TwinTrader.com: Twin Trader Alerts for Friday, November 4, 2005 QOIL, BUGS, AITX, CWTD
11/4/05

Dallas, Texas, Nov 04, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --
Twin Trader Alerts for Friday include Quest Oil Corporation's (OTCBB: QOIL), U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS), Airtrax, Inc. (OTCBB: AITX) and China World Trade Corporation (OTCBB: CWTD).
 
Posted by Dustoff101 on :
 
Some of you may of noticed a little *ahemmm* change in my attitude towards this stock.LOL

But thats what it is, attitude! that has been influenced by some good old fashioned common sence.

Hurricane Wilma devestated the area's in the Yucatan that provided critical jobs in Mexico.

The Oil infrastructre must of been impacted and needs tons of capital to get back to even they're pre-hurricane production.

Keep in mind pre-hurricane production was in serious trouble just due to the fact of how Pemex operates.

Then here's the other problem, CORRUPTION!~
Anybody that knows anything about 3rd World countrys knows things operate in a manner not conducive to trust.

All these countrys Bugs is so happy about, Brazil is another problem country, all thrive on a bribe and kick back system.

Their is also the problem of Drug cartels influencing all levels of government down there now.........

I was counting on some contracts in the United States that were not just a little fluff.

So when I added up all the risks of this OTCBB I finaly came to the conclusion that I may of been had!

Sometimes when we stand to close to the Tree we can't see the rest of the forest......

I hope I'm wrong, because I like living..J/K LOL

PS, this is an open forum and I am expressing my thoughts and have NO INFORMATION to substaintiate my views...
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
If they are contracted to do the estimates, large cleanup contracts will follow. And Brehm is already on record stating that those contracts will be huge. Plus, there will be multiple contracts that will extend over a period of years. All in all, we could be looking at contracts in the 10MM-25MM range. How many other companies in the world can say the same?
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
Mexico Governor Funds Environmental Contract to SSWM Subsidiary; Assessment Contracts Key to Meeting Goal of $10-25 MM in Business in Mexico

November 07, 2005 09:25:01 (ET)


CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov 07, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (SSWM, Trade), announced that governor Mario Marin Torres of the State of Puebla, Mexico, has allocated an initial budget of approximately $365,000 USD to conduct a comprehensive environmental site assessment of the bulk storage terminal of Pemex -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company -- properties in the City of Puebla. This project contract was awarded to SSWM Mexico subsidiary company Environmental Tec International, S.A. de C.V. (ETI), headquartered in Mexico City.

ETI will provide a detailed investigation to determine the optimum approach to remediate the on-going hydrocarbon releases of the aforementioned Pemex terminal to surrounding communities serving the City of Puebla. It is imperative to mention that PROFEPA -- Mexican Federal Environment Protection Agency -- conducted an environment audit in 1997 and documented major filtration of gasoline and diesel fuel at that time. There is no doubt that these combustibles have contaminated the subsoil and have reached the water table. ETI will quantify the environmental problem and provide engineering design and project cost for a comprehensive community remediation program. The report will be presented directly to the Governor for review and subsequent funding of the recommended implementation.

Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM, stated, "This award represents the first in a series of engineering projects to characterize and define the environmental impacts to air, soils and groundwater by properties in the City of Puebla and surrounding communities. Governor Mario Marin Torres has ordered this work to document suspected and known risks threatening the State's capital city and its citizens in order to begin crafting a comprehensive remedial action plan."

Beattie further described the significance of the initial contract award from the Governor by saying, "This site assessment contract award is the first step toward winning the larger cleanup implementation. Just as our first $1,000,000 plus Mexico cleanup project started off with a $50,000 site assessment report, we fully expect this new contract report to lead to a multi-million dollar remediation contract when the Governor and PEMEX approve the subsequent funding and implementation. When the cleanup contract is awarded, we will be well on our way of meeting our goal of $10-25 MM in anticipated business in Mexico. With additional assessment report contracts already pending, we feel confident that we will have a major impact resolving environmental problems for the people of Mexico."

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS, Trade), and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services, including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT, a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.


Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc.
Alan Kau, 888-795-3166
http://www.bugsatwork.com
Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by jdnaik on :
 
Where do you think the price of Bugs will be in 2-3 months??
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
From RagingBull.com
By: SiliconValley
08 Nov 2005, 06:33 AM EST

.40/share: the future looks very promising. BUGS is a great buy at these prices. Both near term and long term contracts are huge. The CEO owns over 18 million shares. Contract work around the world is going to happen. What other company can you think of that has contracts ranging from $10MM-$50MM(with the prospects of more).And BUGS is selling at a huge discount at only .026/share.
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
BUGS -- U.S. Microbics
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COMPANY NEWS AND PRESS RELEASES FROM OTHER SOURCES:

TwinTrader.com: Twin Trader Alerts for Wednesday, November 9, 2005 QOIL, BUGS, AITX, CWTD

Dallas, Texas, Nov 09, 2005 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Twin Trader Alerts for Wednesday include Quest Oil Corporation's (OTCBB: QOIL), U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS), Airtrax, Inc. (OTCBB: AITX) and China World Trade Corporation (OTCBB: CWTD).

U.S. Microbics, Inc. (OTCBB: BUGS) traded as much as 5.7% over open on Tuesday.
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
Isn't anyone excited about the prospects? And what's next? It sure is quiet here. Why?
 
Posted by imakmony2005 on :
 
been here for awhile. and holding..029
 
Posted by OnPoint on :
 
tld - I''ve been here for a while also - check out the other thread on Hot STocks Free for All - a lot more info there with bunch of DD & info from peaser, denz, and others. I got in at 048 & out today at 026. Seeing other oppertunities headed in a + direction. This may well be a good by at current pps, but I can't afford to wait & watch it drop any further. GLTY
 
Posted by Zygore on :
 
SSWM to Support Puebla Governor at LA World Affairs Council Forum; Company Supports Economic Opportunities in Mexico for Southern California Businesses

November 14, 2005 09:45:01 (ET)


CARLSBAD, Calif., Nov 14, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sub-Surface Waste Management of Delaware, Inc. (SSWM, Trade), an innovative environmental cleanup company capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide, announced that SSWM top management and key investors will be supporting the business opportunity efforts of His Excellency Mario Marin Torres, Governor of the State of Puebla, Mexico, at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council Forum on November 17 in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles World Affairs Council promotes greater understanding of current global issues and their impact on the people of Southern California by inviting authoritative, influential figures in world affairs to Los Angeles, and providing them an open forum. For more information visit their website at www.lawac.org.

Bruce Beattie, CEO of SSWM stated, "We have an excellent working relationship with the governor and the business development opportunities available in the State of Puebla. As we help the governor solve pressing environmental priorities using local labor forces and resources, his state becomes more attractive for foreign investment and a desired location for foreign manufacturing and service industries. The Governor's pro-active stance on environmental issues benefits not only the residents of Puebla, but shows his commitment to foreign businesses searching for an economically attractive location which provides a resourceful labor force and government infrastructure favorable to foreign businesses."

About Sub-Surface Waste Management

Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc. is a majority owned subsidiary of U.S. Microbics, Inc. (BUGS, Trade) and provides comprehensive civil and environmental engineering project management services including specialists to design, permit, build and operate environmental waste clean-up treatment systems using conventional, biological and filtration technologies. SSWM is capitalizing on its patented technologies registered in Mexico with SEMARNAT a Federal regulatory agency overseeing environmental compliance nationwide.

Investors and media contact Bruce Beattie at 760/918-1860, ext. 105 or bbeattie*bugsatwork.com; or learn about the company by visiting its Web site at http://www.bugsatwork.com.

The information contained in this press release includes forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements usually contain the words "estimate," "anticipate," "believe," "expect" or similar expressions that involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include the company's status as a startup company with uncertain profitability, need for significant capital, uncertainty concerning market acceptance of its products, competition, limited service and manufacturing facilities, dependence on technological developments and protection of its intellectual property. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences are discussed more fully in the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion and Analysis or Plan of Operation" and other sections of the company's Form 10-KSB and other publicly available information regarding the company on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company will provide you with copies of this information upon request.

SOURCE: Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc.


Sub-Surface Waste Management Inc.
Bruce Beattie, 760-918-1860, ext. 105
bbeattie*bugsatwork.com
http://www.bugsatwork.com
Copyright Business Wire 2005
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
Can someone please give me a link to the other BUGS board? My hard drive crashed and I lost everything. Thanks, [Smile]
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
I'm looking for the board with 31 pages on posts.
 
Posted by tiffany_loves_diamonds on :
 
I found it...
 


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