Could they really be burning turtles?

[CoffeeCat]

This guy, who works for BP and the Coast Guard. He's doing turtle rescues, but
he says that BP is preventing this guy from saving turtles--which is his job.

He also claims, on the video--that BP is trapping wildlife in boom, then burning the oil--which causes all of the wildlife that is struggling on the surface--including turtles--to catch fire.
It's almost as if they're burning the evidence.

This is so sickening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjw3_bMk8o&feature=player_embedded

[thecrow]

1. This is what is wrong about letting BP control the dialogue

... or in this case, the monologue.
The amount of fish, dolphins, turtles, et al that are dying aren't allowed to be seen, and certainly not allowed to
turn up dead on some beach. That's why no flyovers under a certain altitude, and why they are controlling
all the operations out at sea.

[amborin]

2. the dialogue? why is BP in control of anything at this point, esp the cleanup?

[cwydro]

3. I can't believe I am living in a country

that allows this.

[CoffeeCat]

4. I really wonder what Naomi Klein says about this...

...because I feel like I'm in the middle of my own personal
'shock doctrine' regarding this spill.

It feels like a nightmare.

[aquart]

5. British Petroleum is sickening. And it is killing us and ours.

[TheKentuckian]

6. They are behaving as expected which is in the worst imaginable ways

It's making me a whole new level of sick about every day.

[saracat]

7. OMG. I really cannot handle this and still we do NOTHING.

WHY are we allowing this ? WHY?

[old mark]

8. BP does not care about anything but money - why would they care about turtles

or anything else?

I am hoping this will change a few minds about the "wonderful corporations", but I don't see enough anger yet...


mark

[gleaner]

9. I think they are capable of anything ...

except honesty, compassion and real efforts to undo the damage they have done. Let's hope that they don't get a chance to treat the people who are getting sick from the chemicals they are spewing everywhere the same way. BP is what the word evil was coined to describe.

[Blue Owl]

10. Kill Baby Kill

Gonna remember this every time I turn my ignition key.

I think I'll hop on the bike instead.

[gratuitous]

11. Oh barf: In defense of BP

The oil-covered animals are dead already. While roasting the animals alive isn't humane, clearing the oil through burning is quicker and more efficient, and may save more animals. This is truly a fresh Hell, and we are to be spared nothing at all.

[blindpig]

15. They are destroying evidence

All sea turtles are protected, Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles are critically endangered.

I want all of those animal carcasses, plenty places to put them, Houston, DC, Wall St, London.

And I wouldn't put it past them to torch debilitated turtles either.

[gratuitous]

17. Someone should be cataloguing this, no doubt

And I don't trust BP to do it at all. Their record during this entire catastrophe has been abominable. Is burning the oil on the surface the most efficient method of getting rid of it? Or would a flotilla of skimmers do a better, more thorough job (minimizing the air pollution from burning as well)? The sheer number of animals trapped in the oil would make it impossible to save all of them, or even a substantial portion of them, and most of them are probably doomed anyway. Is it a good use of limited manpower to pick up fouled turtles, or is it more useful to get the oil out of there quickly, so as to save sea life not yet enveloped by the slicks?

I have no idea what the best course of action is, and all choices seem to be damnable in some fashion.

[maryf]

18. AAArrrrgh...

I would put nothing past them...this one got me crying again, damn...:cry: :grr:

Why aren't people in the streets????

[Curmudgeoness]

19. In defense of BP???? You're kidding, right.

Oiled wildlife is not "already dead". How would you like it if we threw you in the middle of a firestorm when you got sick? If we are not attempting to rehabilitate them, we have no evidence one way or the other whether they would die.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. disgraceful k&r

[City Lights]

13. Someone please wake me from this nightmare.

:-(

[EFerrari]

14. BP needs to be OUT of this whole situation.

:cry:

[defendandprotect]

16. It is a nightmare . . . getting worse every day -- !!

[sabrina 1]

20. 'Could they really be burning turtles'?

Yes, they have done much, much worse than that, and are still doing it in Colombia eg where they have the support of the corrupt government. They are part of a global empire which it seems OUR government helped to create and they act with impunity wherever they go.

Here's just a little about the kind of people they are. Murder, torture, imprisonment, destruction of environments and lives, the hiring of para militaries against anyone who opposes their planet-destroying operation.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sabrina%201/65"

I would not be surprised to hear of violence before too long against Americans who insist on knowing what is going on. They may be too powerful to remove peaceably from this country. I hope not, but it's not a big conspiracy theory to think so.