SHIP ISLAND OIL and DYING BIRDS

OILED BIRDS SEEN DYING ON SHIP ISLAND

The above link will take you to one of the saddest stories I've read lately, mainly because visitors and children became witnesses to the outrageous scene that had reached one of our beautiful barrier islands.

The part that baffles me is the REASON this scene has been allowed to happen.

Why have people and the White House dragged their feet, ignored the catastrophy out in the Gulf of Mexico, disallowed Skimmers from coming to our aid and allowed BP to run the show? COLLUSION.

Why had the President NOT used his time wisely? Why has he NOT used his Executive Powers to over-ride STUPID and/or OUTDATED "rules/laws?" RED TAPE.

Why have the Skimmers remained in other locations? The supposed, ridiculous reason is, "they might be needed." (is there something we don't know about?)

The ISSUE IS, you idiots, those Skimmers are NEEDED NOW... they were NEEDED 70+ days ago!!! Skimmers brought in could have worked together and stopped the oil from moving in on us. RED TAPE.

More boom, at the beginning, should have been put in place. City Mayors are STILL having to plead for boom and ask "permission" to use it??? Red TAPE.

You've disallowed ships and Skimmers from other countries who've attempted to come to our aid and help us. How does this make America look? What is being hidden? Red Tape!

What are you thinking?


Oh! You're NOT thinking! You are playing games. You and all of those involved in this lack-of-management, brainless, air-headed collision course with Nature are Red-Taping the Gulf of Mexico, its people, its businesss, and its sealife to death. YOU are the problem.

You are the terrorists - proven by your lack of control over BP, the biggest oil spill in history, the largest environmental catastrophy in America, the deaths of thousands of peoples' ways-of-life, the deaths of thousands upon thousands of animal lives and undersea life forms.

You, Mr. President, have proven you are ignorant of the enormity of, the seriousness of, and the long-term effects of this Ecological Disaster. by ignoring the need for immediacy of the situation. Thus, You are aiding and abbetting BP's lies and cover-up schemes - their use of Dispersants has purposely hidden the true spill amount and delayed the ability to skim the spill. Dispersants and Burning oil have needlessly added to the ecological disaster and to the numbers of sealife deaths. Burning animals alive, most noticeably Sea Turtles- including babies - is reprehensible and evil.

All of you are cowards hanging onto ignorance, cozy associations of which you all benefit while people along the Gulf Coast are dying emotionally, economically, and literally and animal life is suffering ungodly torture and undeserved death.

YOU should be in THEIR place!!!

WAKE UP... and PRAY for yourselves.


The Examiner - Slideshow

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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Ocean Springs Press Release on Oil Situation

MEDIA PRESS RELEASE - for immediate release

April 29th, 2010

OS Prepares for Possible Oil Spill Affecting Coastal Waters, Beaches, Marshes, and Wildlife

A citizen volunteer group is currently being organized in Ocean Springs. A web site is under construction for those who wish to volunteer for training to clean the beach and marshes. This website will be linked to the city web site, Ocean Springs, MS on Friday.

The Pascagoula River Audubon Center will organize training on cleaning wilfelife affected by the oil spill. Volunteers may register their contact information at the center's web site, Audubon Center.

To report oiled or injured wildlife, call 1-800-557-1401

For details and information concerning this release, please contact Johnnie Bernhard at (228) 875-2209.

PREPPING FOR DISASTER - INJURED/ OILED BIRDS

MISSISSIPPI COAST PREPARING FOR YET ANOTHER DISASTER


The following came to me today via my Facebook page from my dear Katrina friend in Ocean Springs, MS. She asked me to pass this info along and I am more than glad to be a tiny part of helping out in this possible upcoming scenario of disaster. As if Katrina didn't do enough damage to the fragile eco-systems of the coast from Mississippi to Louisiana, now we have the OIL SPILL!

The Pascagoula Audubon Center is now on stand-by to conduct another oiled bird workshop in conjunction with partner, Chevron, to teach public who wish to assist. The workshop won't be at the center, but we are taking people's names and phone numbers who wish to participate and are in the Mississippi Coast area. Please call for information: 228-475-0825.

If you find an injured/oiled bird, call the Oiled Bird Hotline at 1-866-557-1401. Be prepared to give the following information: 1 - exact location where animal was found, 2 - your name, 3 - your phone number, 4 - your address.

If all coastal folks would please pass along the above via their FB status, FB email or regular email to others in coastal areas. Thanks! AND... " DO NOT TOUCH THE INJURED BIRD!"
- Lisa Wesson, Cruising the Wild

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And I will add, if you TWEET, this is the perfect time to pass along this and other info concerning the BIG OIL MESS... TWEET FOR THE BIRDS and OTHER ANIMALS who will be suffering.


As of this morning, the length had spread to 100 miles and was less than 20 miles from the Louisiana coast. St. Bernard Parrish is in line to be hit by this mess. Another Katrina. Mississippi is in line to as the weather is in process of changing as I write this. A High will be moving further East and as it does so, it will change the wind direction to onshore from the South. Winds are expected to be 20-30 mph.

As of this evening: Leading edge of oil is expected to reach the Mississippi River Delta by tonight (Thurs. April 29)!

DO NOT TOUCH THE INJURED BIRD!


LINKS:

Pascagoula River Audubon

Deepwater Horizon Incident, Gulf of Mexico Updated each evening. This is a NOAA site for the Emergency Response to the OIL SPILL DISASTER in The Gulf

Mississippi Canyon 252 Overflight Map