LA Times Front Page: Death by Fire in the Gulf:

[amborin]

smoke billows from controlled burns in the Gulf...catching...
the creaturs that thrive in it


"......Wildlife researchers operating here, in the regions closest to the spill, are witnesses to a disquieting choice: Protecting shorebirds, delicate marshes and prime tourist beaches along the coast by stopping the oil before it moves ashore has meant the largely unseen sacrifice of some wildlife out at sea, poisoned with chemical dispersants and sometimes boiled by the burning of spilled oil on the water's surface....."


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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-burnbox-20100617,0,7634456,full.story

[tekisui]

1. I wouldn't be surprised if in the near future hear of a 'Gulf Leak Disease'.

Mixing these dispersants, spraying them from air and burning them, all the while workers being exposed to the fumes of the crude.

It just gets worse and worse.

[amborin]

2. and BP is still using the dispersants! why? the EPA *finally* told them to cease, but they continu

and they use the worst, Corexit, when less toxic are availabe......

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, amborin.

[femrap]

4. Now another

horrible image in my head.

Please let this stop.

[Gin]

5. I was watching CNN and Ali mentioned the smoke from that burn creates its

own weather system...my first thought was...god,I wonder what that will produce.

[femrap]

6. I've watched

those burns on TV and to me they appear so evil-looking. All of this black smoke swarming around. And it must be burning that Corexit as well. So now we have 'Crack Corexit.'

If we don't see the evils of oil now, we'll never see them.

[Desertrose]

7. Problem is, those of us who already know, suffer along ...

with the sea creatures and those who don't...well...this will bounce off them. Hopefully a few wake up along the way. God, what else does it take??!


And yeah, burning toxic Corexit fumes on top of the oil toxins.... I am just so sad over what we have done to our home, our planet...all for a few rich bastards who never really gave a shit about anything beyond their greed in the first place.

:(

[femrap]

8. And the Chairman

of the Board of BP who is a Swede saying 'we care about the little people.' It's as if he considers them to be some kind of different creature/being than he.

If the relief wells don't work, this is beyond catastrophic.

Mother Nature will have the final word. And Karma, as well.