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A recent Los Angeles Times article confirmed that sea turtles are being burned in the efforts to clean up the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But according to a shrimp boat captain hired by BP and the Coast Guard to rescue sea turtles, workers are being actively blocked from their rescue efforts by the oil company and it’s 21,000 contractors.
Shrimp boater Mike Ellis says that BP has shut down the sea turtle operation by preventing boats from getting to the turtles. As detailed in the LA Times story, controlled burns are part of the efforts to contain the oil spill. Sea tutles and other marine life are caught in the booms and the burn area and are burned along with the oil. “Once the turtles get in there they can’t get out,” Ellis said.
As Daniel Tencer at Raw Story points out, the majority of the sea turtles affected by the oil spill are the endangered Kemp’s Ridleys. In fact, harming or killing a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle carries a very stiff penalty–up to $50,000 per instance–and bodies of dead animals are being gathered as evidence to determine BP’s liability. Some are suggesting that burning the turtles is one way to hide evidence on BP’s part.
Watch the Mike Ellis interview by the Sea Turtle Restoration Project
Read more: bp, british petroleum, burned, clean-up, endangered, kemps-ridley, mike-ellis, oil, sea turtles, spill
Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife and Richard Byle
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its a desaster!!!!!!!!! why this companies are doing this for the turtles????? the bp shoud pay for this. the turtles do not have to pay with theyr own life.
These large corporations seem to be "above the law".....they could at least allow for rescue of the species that are being destroyed, whether they pay for it now or not! There are plenty of volunteers as well as paid workers who would do whatever was necessary to rescue these pitiful creatures. BP, Chevron, etc. - DON'T STAND IN THEIR WAY!!!!!
BP, Chevron, Shell - some of the most destructive corporations on the planet. They are destroying communities, wildlife and the environment in their relentless and greedy pursuit of the mighty dollar.
Each of these companies is responsible for some of the greatest environmental disasters of our time. BP - 11 men died Gulf of Mexico and 5 million tonnes of oil polluted the ocean.
Chevron refuses to clean up 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste and 917 unlined oil pits in Ecuador, killing everything in sight.
Shell has destroyed the Niger Delta and children now swim in rockpools filled with oil.
These companies are immoral and inhumane and completely out of touch with the real world and all living beings. They value nothing but the bottom line.
Any person who values life on this planet should be demanding the politicians end this destruction of people and the planet. Governments give permission to carry out their projects and they must be held responsible as well.
You or I do something wrong and the heavy hand of the law deals with us immediately. These irresponsible, uncaring, destructive, dominating, arrogant corporations get away with it, time and time again.
Problem is the disasters are getting more frequent and more destructive - they must be stopped before the oceans are completely polluted and nothing survives. The oceans are the lungs of the planet without it Man will not survive.
BP is responsible for the cruel deaths of the turtles and they should be
I truly hate them. I have no reasonable or productive comment...I just hate them. BP seems to think this is some huge joke...when the hell are they going to start taking this seriously? I just can't comprehend it, I truly can't. I don't know what the hell is wrong with them.
Nyack directed me to this site and I replied in all innocence
According to the media in my country they are even collecting the eggs now to give the turtles a chance and stop them bolting into the oil spill.
Could maybe be a good day for turtles care BP.
However I did see a sort of solution to this awful gulf spills and other technological anomolies which will probably catch up with us and kill us.
As I said:-
However there seems to be room for a campaign to start on electricity generating for non petroleum cars and all the technology that has been there all the time. By which I mean:
tidal;
solar;
thermal;
hydra ;
wind ;
If we could work on some sort of grid preferably internationalas Edison and Buckminster Fuller suggested ;failing that national we might still save a lot of life on this planet now scheduled for extinction including ourselves.
It isn't entirely a universal panacea but if we could use these low cost and low maintenance technologies , I have listed,to provide power and energy, we might be able still to save most seaturtles and people currently being destroyed by oiland coal. Don't forget iether in their various pollutive and carcagenic forms such as the release of carbon compounds into the air and earth;plastic poisoning of children ;fertilizer blockages of rivers and oceans with algae and chemicals;insecticide,herbicide poisoningof all life;the threat of global warming,from various activities that can be traced to petroleu
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Take the dollar out of the equasion and we just might all stand a chance...
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