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Keith Olbermann: BP trying to hide dead birds in Gulf oil spill
The BP ‘oil spill police’ have tried to keep the public from seeing the horrors of what the BP oil spill has done to wildlife in and around the Gulf of Mexico.
However, the number of dead animals has been rising since the Deepwater Horizon exploded on April 20, 2010.
Since the top of the Deepwater Horizon riser pipe was cut off in an effort to control the massive leak, the flow has increased 20%. The newly installed cap is supposed to capture at least part of the 19,000 barrel per day gusher, but it is not yet bringing a significant amount of the spill to a surface-hovering barge.
Senior Wildlife Biologist Doug Inkley, of the National Wildlife Federation has thus far collected the oil soaked corpses of 522 birds, 325 turtles, and 135 dolphins.
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Inkley claims there may be hundreds more marine mammals and fish whose bodies will never be counted or found in the depths of the Gulf, according to CNN.
With millions of gallons of oil and chemicals filling the Gulf of Mexico, the death toll on wildlife will be monumental for generations to come.
In the video below, BP CEO Tony Hayward preforms verbal gymnastics as he tries to explain-away the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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If the government doesnt let go of our land oil reserves and instead let go of our off shore drilling projects, this will not be the last time we face such a disaster. We REQUIRE oil and it should be from OUR lands. I dont blame BP at all for the disaster. We use the oil they provide and they can only tap where we allow them to. The environmentalists and BP share the blame for this catastrophe.
More regulation for off shore isnt the answer. They shouldnt be out there at all. And they wouldnt be if they didnt HAVE to be.
Keith, they're all right there at MSNBC!
I have no clue why people think we need big oil so bad. We had technology to run cars and homes on water 30 years ago. Look up stan meyer
Good reporting!
My husband and I drive together to work and never had kids in the 23 years we have been together, we are leaving behind a very small carbon foot print. We are doing our part. We also collect cans. What do you do?
Charlie stop inhaling the oil fumes.... Yes we need oil, we use oil that is not the issue here. The issue here is BP screwed up, didn't have a backup plan that worked. They are at fault simple as that. Regardless if we want it or not - just because I want a steak doesn't mean I'm at fault because the hunter accidentally burns down the forest to get it.
BP or it's sub-contractors cut corners and that caused the accident.
CHARLIE..WE DON'T REQUIRE OIL. when there are other options, why do you still want to support big business? especially big business that doesn't effect our economy? we got rid of the big bad oil tycoon that ran the show, and made a lot of money for war economy folks. lets reject the standard thought and try to create a new game plan.
I personally care about my children growing up on an earth that does not want to self-destruct. anything we can do to make it better. personally i am riding my bike a lot more. to the grocery, to friends houses, everywhere. i only drive to work. one step at a time, leaning away from gassing up my pollution machine. p.s. may BP not rest in peace.
Every home farm and buisness in this nation could have its energy needs met on only one half of the oil used now,if all of the mentionend also used solar panels,wind power,hemp oil and tung oil,along with all the other kinds of plant oils,and energy sources not now in wide spread use.
Why is it that you can go even to Walmart and buy all sorts of electrical products which run on solar power,and or, are powerd by simple crank shaft mechanisms which also allow power to be stored for later use, but practicaly none of this technology has been applied for use on a mass scale ? Is it because the oil companies who have economic ties with the power companies as well as with coal and gas companies are suspressing the expansion of such technology in order to protect profits from both the extraction of hydrocarbons and the maintanance of power grids?
Why is it that tens of thousands of rural establishments and homes have to be on power grids instead of having individual power sources ?
Charlie,read the dam news,BP was drilling where they were because that is where a huge supply of oil and natural gas is,not because they were forced to ! The national artic wildlife refuge in NE Alaska is not an oil reserve it is a wildlife and wilderness preserve,learn the the difference ! In NW Alaska the government years ago set aside the Alaska National Pretrolium Preserve which covers an area of nearly 20 million acers and contains at least as much oil and gas as the neighboring nature preserve.Charlie,regardless of the amount of oil available,and regardless of the amount of monetary profits generated from the drilling and use of oil,none of it is going to benifit humanity upon a planet that has been rendered unable to support life ! And yes us liberal bleeding heart, tree hugging,liberals do have a natural right to enjoy the existance of at least a few places on the earth that are left in a natural state not altered nor ravaged by the excesses of modern technological development.
For those who would like to do more to preserve the health of our natural world here is a website,concerning primitive technologies which are easy to learn and can be used to manufacture many usable items needed everyday,and or occasionaly,without the need for factories,large amounts of fossil fuel or the destruction of ecosystems.If you are interested, just google ''Scociety for, or of Primitive technology''
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