SEA TURTLES Being BURNED ALIVE by BP

Protect Sea Turtles from the BP Oil Disaster

This is a reprehensible and extremely  irresponsible act by BP!  

This is one part of the conspiracy to HIDE the reality of the enormity of the oilspill.

Dispersants come into play as they break up oil and those broken parts sink. They cannot be skimmed. This is part of the ploy to KEEP SKIMMERS OUT along with the beuracratic RED TAPE! (Harkens back to the enormous "Red Tape of Katrina" - look to Big Money People on that and the current Catastrophy )
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@NWF @wildlifeaction: Reports say sea turtles are being burned alive. 

Tell BP to clean up it's act:
http://bit.ly/c0t3qo

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Please sign the National Wildlife Federation's Petition - it's easy and you can Share on Facebook and Twitter.

Help save the Turtles ♥

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100 DOLPHINS MOVE CLOSER TO MS LAND

HOW FAR CAN THEY RUN?

This is a sad state of affairs for these and other such wonderful sea animals. WHAT is the problem with the so-called "people in charge"? What has been done to CONTAIN the OIL ALL THIS TIME???

Not very damn much!!! And yes, I am upset!

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Story:

Institute for Marine Mammal Studies Director, Moby Solangi, said Sat. there were groups of dolphins at the west side of Horn Island, on the north and south sides of Cat Island, and by Ship Island. Several were also spotted in the ship channel.

Dr. Solangi said none of the dolphins seen were in oil, but that oil was close to some of them.

Link:  http://www.wlox.com/global/story.asp?s=12723531

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ALL MS COASTAL WATERS CLOSED

All MS coast waters with a few exceptions in shore are now closed to
all forms of fishing.

Link: http://bit.ly/d4UhL0
(via Twitter & @lxolib

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WHAT WOULD WALTER ANDERSON SAY?

MS GULF COAST'S HORN ISLAND HAS OIL :

Horn Island was made famous by Ocean Springs' famous nature-loving eccentric artist, Walter Anderson.

Anderson spent much of his time out on the Horn communing with the vibrant nature of a most beautiful and  peaceful place. Then, unharmed by Man.

He usually rowed out to the island early in the mornings and would spend days camping out there, writing about what he saw and thought. He lived with the wildlife of the place and even fed some of the animals, made friends with some, and took care of one's who needed care.

Today a Coastal boater's vessel was coated with oil when he decided to go out to Horn Island to check out the place and see if any oil had reached it.

Oil had reached the infamous island.

But what seemed a disgusting slam to this major issue was yet another ignorant, uneducated remark posted at end of story::

Talk about a story 
"What a important story, someone uses his boat to go to a island that has Oil and Tar balls around it and his boat gets oil on it and this is news worthy? I'm sorry I know the spill is tragic more so than most being a resident for almost 50 years but this is a great example of a story that should not have ran. Whats next a person running down the street and notice that he/she sweats after a 1/2 hour?"

Today, 8:20:05 PM

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to read more, go to WLOX- Biloxi: http://bit.ly/aqqd6G
(via Twitter- @WLOX)

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Relative Links:
http://www.walterandersonmuseum.org/horn.html

http://deq.state.ms.us/MDEQ.nsf/page/Main_Home?OpenDocument


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GULF PARK ESTATES- TARBALLS / OIL

Ocean Springs / Jackson Co. Mississippi:

Oil, tar balls on beach in Gulf Park Estates, St. Andrews

Link: http://bit.ly/cxIv7B

(via Twitter @Ixolib)
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Heartbreaking, oil reaching the place I love so much. I want to go see
and document, why now this broken foot of mine!

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OCEAN SPRINGS

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) \
Mississippi Dept. of Environmental Quality investigating reports of
oil on mainland in Jackson County.

(via Twitter / @wdglover)
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Waiting to hear, no link w/ this post. Scarry.... will ck out story.
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Gulf Oil Spill 6-25 Photos

Gulf Oil Spill 2010 Photos: Images from June 25, 2010
Link: http://bit.ly/aOYjPZ

(via Twitter @GulfOilCleanup)

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Kindra Arnesan Speaks About Oil Problems

Kindra lives in Louisiana and gives a powerful speech about her
experiences with the lies of BP and others over the spill. Truly jaw-
dropping information.

"Gulf Emergency Summit" qouted from
PBS Newshour 6/23/2010

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3bzypjTIWg&feature=youtube_gdata

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OIL and PASS CHRISTIAN

Oil spill forces a Pass business to temporarily close: A Pass
Christian oyster processing plant has become a casualty ....
http://bit.ly/ayInll

(via Twitter: @WLOX)

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ANIMALS of the OIL CATASTOPHY

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S GALLERY

Although the term "gallery" seems most to apply to paintings,
sculpture, installations, mixed media and the like - visual things to
go to see generally enjoy. A Gallery visit tends to leave one either
pondering, loving, or disliking what they've seen and experienced for
any number of reasons. Art does that.

THIS "gallery" only leaves me sick and crying.

What in God's name have we, as a nation, allowed to happen? And WHY!
The shame is, we ALL know the answers.
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NAT GEO Gallery:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/06/photogalleries/100608-gulf-oil-spill-environment-birds-animals-pictures/#gulf-oil-spill-killing-wildlife-brown-pelican-wings_21352_600x450.jpg

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Link to Discussion / posts from "The Diane Rehm Show" in which I
found the Nat Geo site mentioned:

http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-06-21/fate-wildlife-caught-bp-oil-disaster

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BP "Cleanuppers" Destroy LEAST TERN NESTS

"Last weekend Drew Wheelan, the Gulf of Mexico conservation coordinator for the American Birding Association, documented the near-destruction of several least tern nests on the sand in front of a Grand Isle beach house owned by the Nature Conservancy..."

via: Twitter / Tweet@NOLA

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/tern_nesting_areas_being_distu.html

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KATRINA NAMES :: MEMORIAL

Biloxi will put Katrina victims' names on a memorial almost five years
after The hurricane cleaned off the Mississippi Gulf Coast for miles

Link: http://bit.ly/ckH56g

(Tweeted via WLOX - Biloxi)

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Biloxi hires contractors to prepare for oil clean up: 

The city of Biloxi is taking a lesson from Katrina and preparing...

http://bit.ly/cwo7cf

via http://twitter.com/WLOX

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MARINE LIFE CONGREGATING ::

In Strange Groupings and PLACES

@NWF: Wildlife fleeing BP oil spill showing up in unusual locales = troubling news:

http://bit.ly/bDq2oV

via http://twitter.com/SpillBabySpill

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CONNECTIONS IN LIFE

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to
the rest of the world." – John Muir

Via Twitter @IBRRC

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follow me @mswxChick

KEVIN COSTNER'S CENTRIFUGES DEPLOY !!

At Last ::

Kevin Costner's centrifuges deploy for Gulf of Mexico oil spill
cleanup: BP has ordered 32 of the machines ...

Link: http://bit.ly/d53PFB

Via @TweetNOLA

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VIDEO: PELICANS/ BABIES in LA ROOKERY

Video: 47th. Day
http://thespillsite.com/2010/06/visit-cat-island-47th-day-bp-oil-spill/
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Heartbreaking, anger-invoking, senseless losses, feeling totally
helpless, many many tears.

This video was very difficult to view. How sick is America to LET this
happen!?

It's BEEN time for alternative energy for a long, long time, but
NOW--- for real !!!

To OIL Co.'s:

Figure out how to make "your $$$$" from CLEAN ENERGY!! And NOT
"clean" COAL!!!

Rob us with your high prices with wind and sun - those energies won't
destroy the earth and its life forms!

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HELP & INFO :: OIL SPILL

Volunteer Mississippi ♥♥♥
http://www.volunteermississippi.org/1800Vol/OpenIndexAction.do
---- Oil Spill section ----

Pascagoula Audubon Center --- Oil Spill
http://pascagoulariver.audubon.org/

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Robert Cavnar -- on Oil Spill
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-l-cavnar/bp-blowout-containment-ef_b_569273.html

Hotline numbers:
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/

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DONATE TO AUDUBON for OIL DISASTER

GULF OIL DISASTER HITS BIRD AND HABITATS
Help Audubon Make A Difference

"An 11-year-old artist fighting to help wildlife suffering in the oil spill's wake is getting more assistance in her crusade.

AOL Artists is partnering with Olivia Bouler to host"Olivia's Help the Gulf Region Wildlife Project." AOL has given Olivia her own artist's gallery on the site."

Link: http://tinyurl.com/22oh7sk

** Follow Olivia on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/2bj9j44 

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LA NINA CREEPING BACK?

IT STILL ONLY TAKES ONE . . .

La Nina may be creeping back into the hurricane forecast picture by late summer. That could help us all out by reducing that huge initial number of possible hurricanes put upon us recently. 

With OIL in the Gulf causing death, destruction, havoc, anger, protests, blame-games, loss of livilihoods and ways-of-life. . .  we certainly could use a break with hurricanes.  

However, as we in Mississippi well know, it only takes ONE. 

Link: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=1502

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog

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(via Twitter)

http://twitter.com/HurricaneHD
HURRICANE HD is an incredible app for the iPhone and iPad.

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PASCAGOULA AUDUBON TRAINS BIRDERS

Birders Survey Beaches for Effects of Oil - Jackson County, Mississippi

" 'Birds are great indicators of a broader system. The Gulf Coast has 55 Important Bird Areas, or IBAs, which range in importance from globally to locally, said Dr. Tom Bancroft, Chief Science Officer for the National Audubon Society.' " 

Teams were outfitted with binoculars for spotting birds, a digital camera and a GPS device for reporting the coordinates of oiled birds to authorities.

Read more about this great effort at:  http://tinyurl.com/2uvftwp

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PELICAN - OIL COVERED and DYING

Louisiana's State Bird - In a State of Disgrace



Gov. Jindal walked along the beach of East Grand Terre Island, LA with an NBC news reporter. The beach was a murky, thick mass of destruction. Waves were heavy and full of death.

As I watched, there was a seabird of unknown variety buried in the oily muck, it's head sticking out at the camera, its demeanor seemed to say, "I have given up. I cannot move even an inch. I cannot escape this doom nor my imminent demise."

And I cried.

And then the Pelican, Louisisana's state bird, sitting on the beach, looking at the oily water, in limbo, unable to help itself. It could only sit there and wonder what had happened and wait for death to come.

I cried more.

This disgraceful scene was more than I could take. To think that this country could allow this diaster to happen without proper resources, proper preperations, and updated technological solutions to be in place is beyond comprehention! This is America, but now just in name, not the one I grew up believing in.

THIS should not have happened, much less gotten this far advanced relative to our coastal lands, wildlife, our people, and our waters!

THIS IS SICKENING

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE

THIS IS UNFORGIVABLE

THIS IS A DISGRACE

THERE IS NO EXCUSE!
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INTERACTIVE - PUT OIL SPILL ON YOUR AREA

This is really an eye-opener. Type in your zip code and the oil spill
will cover your area!

(via Twitter)
@SweeetGum This really puts the #oilspill in perspective...

Link: http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com

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LOUISIANA COASTAL TRIBES in DANGER

Gulf oilspill propels LA coastal tribes into crisis; told to keep kids
inside, fears for drinking water...

Link: http://bit.ly/cj1B8J #indigenous

(via Twitterrific)
http://twitter.com/facingsouth

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ALABAMA FISHERMEN BLOCK in PROTEST

Local fishermen block Bayou la Batre in Alabama to protest BP hiring,
payment practices...

Link: http://bit.ly/dBtWy4

(via Twitter)
http://twitter.com/facingsouth

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OCEAN SPRINGS FIGHTS OIL

NEW PRODUCT - NOT BOOMS

Ocean Springs prepping new product to fight oil: Instead of boom,
Ocean Springs is relying on a new line of defens...

http://bit.ly/bTeNIx

via Twitter:
http://twitter.com/WLOX

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NEW LEAD TIME for HURRICANES

New tech increases lead time for storms

The 2010 hurricane season has been predicted to be the busiest in years!

The National Hurricane Center has updated its forecast and public advisory systems.

With hope of keeping people informed in the event of a storm, the NHC has increased the lead time for tropical storm and hurricane watches and warnings by 12 hours. 

Watches now will be issued when storm conditions are possible along the coast within 48 hours.

Warnings will be issued when storm conditions are possible within 36 hours.

mor info link: http://tinyurl.com/24o4ejl

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NASA - NEW OIL SLICK IMAGES

via Twitterriic:
RT @jimwxgator MUST SEE--brand new images of the Gulf #oilspill--via
@danwhnt! :

http://wildwildweather.com/forecastblog/2010/06/oil-slick-spreads-across-gulf-new-nasa-image/

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APOLOGY: "I WANT MY LIFE BACK"

As he certainly should have! A LOT of people want their lives back
thanks to YOU and BP!!!

@TweetNOLA BP chief apologizes for 'I'd like my life back' comment
regarding Gulf oil spill:

http://bit.ly/96wftT

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GOVENORS SPEAK and FISHERMEN PROTEST

via Twitter:

RT @GulfOilCleanup Barbour call for more boats south of barrier
islands to combat Gulf of Mexico oil spill :
http://bit.ly/cfWvgF

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RT @GulfOilCleanup Video and photo gallery: Fishermen protest BP oil
spill cleanup effort:
http://bit.ly/c0gSUc

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RT @TweetNOLA Alabama governor complains about oil spill spotlight on
Louisiana: Mobile Press-Register:
http://bit.ly/d65Mq8

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MY MESSAGES

This oilspill in the Gulf is devastation out of control. People
are worried sick and getting angrier. That does include me! I live the
coast and feel for all of her people, animals, islands, bayous, and
wetlands.

As if Katrina didn't do enough to us and Louisiana... NOW BP and other
BIG OIL is killing us off. They had NO contenciency plans for possible
disasterous scenarios. They were relying on 1979 "technology" when
drilling was only 200' deep! WHAT were they doing with all of their
billions in profits???

Maybe they should've been required by government to invest in Skimmers
and up-to-date technology to cap leaks & blowouts.

Maybe they should get a brain! And stop being greed-driven, selfish
fools!!

The first one I wrote today. OS is Ocean Springs, MS--- my favorite
place on the coast.

Second image is from right after the disaster when oil was heading
into Louisiana bayous.

NEW HURRICNE NUMBERS

Colorado State University Team Ups 2010 Forecast to 10 Atlantic Hurricanes

Dr. Klotzbach & Colorado State's Prediction:

18 Named Storms,
10 Hurricanes,
5 Major.
New numbers for the 2010 Hurricane  Season, as forecast by Dr. Klotzbach & Colorado State : 

http://tinyurl.com/24pds88

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END of EFFORTS to STOP OIL GUSHER

"Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP Well Are Over, Coast Guard Says"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&sid=akSN5OpOOiLg
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All I can say is Good!!! Because I felt it was entirely
too
stupid
too
dangerouse
too
illogical
too
uncertain

Thank you BP for reconsidering this "idea"
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FORMALDEHYDE :: EPA REPORT

EPA to release report on effects of formaldehyde

"The assessment will help EPA and others to determine the potential toxicity of being exposed to and inhaling formaldehyde, which is found in many consumer products. Concerns about formaldehyde exposure grew dramatically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when many people living in FEMA trailers after the storm..."

EPA Article

FLORIDA CHARTER CAPT. FINDS OIL

From PRESS-REGISTER &

@GulfOilCleanup Oil spill fisheries closing: 'I wanted to puke,
scream, yell,' charter captain says

http://bit.ly/atzIEl (From PRESS-REGISTER

http://twitter.com/GulfOilCleanup

ALSO See MAP:
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sf/deepwater_horizon/BP_OilSpill_FisheryClosureMap_053110.pdf
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HURRICANES + OIL :: Interactive Multimedia

@wdglover How do hurricanes and oil interact? Multimedia:

http://tinyurl.com/23c3hpq #oilspill

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