Stop Boom and Burn of Sea Turtles by BP Crews

[Omaha Steve]

More info here: http://seaturtles.org/article.php?id=1660

Endangered sea turtles are being burned alive in BP's cleanup efforts, according to an interview by a BP hired local boat owner involved in the cleanup operations. To read about BP's boom and burn operations killing sea turtles and watch the first-hand account of blocking sea turtle rescue from the oil slick, click here to go to our website Campaign Updates. We need your help now to tell local, federal, and BP officials to stop the boom and burn cleanup that is killing endangered sea turtles.


Photo: a loggerhead sea turtle caught in the oil slick (AP, Nicole Bengiveno).


BP Blocks Sea Turtle Rescue, Wildlife Photos, and Interviews

In his shocking interview, Captain Mike describes how BP-hired workers prevented the rescue of sea turtles caught up in boomed oil offshore of Louisiana right before the boomed oil slick was set on fire to burn off the oil. For weeks, reports from the front lines have described BP officials denying access to oiled beaches, blocking reporters from taking photographs of oiled wildlife, and threatening to fire local workers if they participated in media interviews.

The Sea Turtles Restoration Project Launches 1-877-STRP-GLF

The Sea Turtle Restoration Project has launched 1-877-STRPGLF (787-7453) a new toll-free number for reporting oil or injured as well as nesting or hatchling sea turtles in any state in the Gulf of Mexico. Calling this number directs you to local authorities who can provide rescue and rehabilitation of sea turtles in trouble.

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

Send a Message to STOP the Boom and Burn of Endangered Sea Turtles

Here's how you can help,


1) Click here to send a letter to local, federal, and BP officials to stop the boom and burn of endangered sea turtles.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1723/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4133


2) Donate to the Sea Turtle Restoration Project to support our ongoing efforts to protect Gulf of Mexico's endangered sea turtles.

https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/seaturtles/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=2705


The Sea Turtles Restoration Project has sponsored 1-877-STRP GLF, a new toll-freee phone number to call for resuce of any sea turtle in any state in the Gulf of Mexico. Calling this number directs you to local experts who can provide rescue and rehabilitation of oiled sea turtles, not to BP's system.

Thank you for your continued support of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project.

Sincerely,

Chris Pincetich, Ph.D., Campaigner & Marine Biologist, Sea Turtle Restoration Project

Sea Turtle Restoration Project Email News and Updates
PO Box 370, Forest Knolls, CA 94933 USA

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I have contacted the Sea Turtle Restoration Project...

I sent them some money, and I emailed the White House.

I am horrified that our government would stand by and allow this atrocity to go forward. And I am pissed off as well.

K&R

[flvegan]

2. We need another dozen Sea Shepherd ships.

BP would have been told to straight up go fuck themselves in that situation and those turtles, if possible, would have been saved.

[Merchant Marine]

20. Yeah, that would have gone over well

An SSCS "intervention" would be stopped at gunpoint by the US Coast Guard.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. Thanks for the links. I posted to my facebook and gave $25.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. K & R for the turtles.

[G_j]

5. K&R!

thank you!

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Maybe a more descriptive title? Like BP is now BURNING sea turtles ALIVE.

I almost didn't click on because I couldn't wrap my head around the idea. I thought there I missed a word in the title or something.

[G_j]

8. they are (collateral damage)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8589278

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-burnbox-20100617,0,4814068.story


Death by fire in the gulf
So-called burn boxes are torching oil from the water's surface at the sacrifice of turtles, crabs, sea slugs and other sea life.

By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times
June 17, 2010

Reporting from the Gulf of Mexico —
Here on the open ocean, 12 miles from ground zero of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the gulf is hovering between life and death.

The large strands of sargassum seaweed atop the ocean are normally noisy with birds and thick with crustaceans, small fish and sea turtles. But now this is a silent panorama, heavy with the smell of oil.

There are no birds. The seaweed is soaked in rust-colored crude and chemical dispersant. It is devoid of life except for the occasional juvenile sea turtle, speckled with oil and clinging to the only habitat it knows. Thick ribbons of oil spread out through the sea like the strips in egg flower soup, gorgeous and deadly.

..more..

Venice, Louisiana, Boat Captain/ by Catherine Craig:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kjw3_bMk8o&feature=player_embedded

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Yeah. The wherabouts and activity of Levi's penis is REALLY fascinating. Burning seaturtles alive?

Not so much.

[G_j]

17. I don't get your drift

maybe I don't want to

[Omaha Steve]

16. I used the title of the E-mail that came to me

But then I'm a captive audience when I see E-mail from Sea Turtle Restoration Project. :-)

[Mojeoux]

7. K & Effing R

[Empathic_1]

9. Get f'n ANGRY! Don't turn your g'damned head.

Get active in your community, county, state. As hard as it is to see this, it will only get worse with inaction.
You know where the phone is. Talk to friends. Have them call their Reps. It really isn't up to Obama.

This lays far too much under the radar still. Sea-change, or f'n forget about it.

[Duppers]

10. Done

Thanks for posting this.

[cwydro]

15. K and R

I can't believe this tragedy.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. One more time, and again tomorrow.

[onestepforward]

13. Done. Thanks for the information. n/t

[G_j]

14. kick

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. K&R

[G_j]

19. --

[G_j]

21. k

[earthboundmisfit]

22. Kick

:cry:

[G_j]

23. kick

[TK421]

24. Everything I've seen or read, booms just don't seem to do anything right now

anyone disagree with me? they might halt the oil flow ( to an extent, and to a certain area ) but right now, are these things actually doing any good?

Does anyone have any links as to how effective these booms are at this point in the oil crisis?