About that oil spil thing

[AllentownJake]

Notice the virtual media silence on it. That is how you can tell a problem is really bad, when the media avoids talking about it.

Anyone find it ridiculous the new solution involves golf balls? Who is working the brainstorming sessions at BP, a fifth grade science class?

Here is what I think Gulf Coast DUers should do and can do, I hate to say this, but oil is coming a shore, as are dead and sick aquatic life. That is a simple horrifying reality.

If you live in the Gulf region, please serve your nation where the national press won't. Take pictures of everything you see washing up in your region. Document the fumes, publish them on sites like this, on your facebook profiles so that people you are friends with outside the region know what is going on. If enough people document the damage, the media will not be able to cover it up on behalf of BP.

Volunteering to clean up this mess as stated in an earlier OP is not going to help you.

1) You have to be very specially trained to clean the animals.
2) The substances washing up on your beaches are toxic, and no oil company is going to compensate you for later health problems.

However, you can make a difference. You must document this act of eco-terrorism committed by BP on your region and you can send out the images and stories through the internet to the rest of the country and you can force the officials in Washinton to make sure BP cleans up this mess in your region by documenting what they did to your beautiful coastline.

We can not prevent what happened in the Gulf of Mexico, but we can make sure it doesn't happen to Alaska, California, Washington, Oregon, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey.

[SlipperySlope]

1. There is a website for that

You can report any oil landfall or wildlife injuries here:
http://oilspill.skytruth.org/

[AllentownJake]

10. Thanks for that link

[suffragette]

16. Posted about that the other day

More about them here if it helps:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8310642

[XemaSab]

2. Cleaning oiled birds doesn't take that much training

and there's virtually NO training needed for mixing food, doing laundry, and the dreaded MAT DUTY.

If you get MAT DUTY, you will never look at mayonnaise the same way again. :scared:

[amborin]

4. what about

the article posted in envi/eng?

the biologist saying it's ultimately more humane to put down the birds; they die a painful death after treatment.....

[skeptical cynic]

7. Wildlife capture, stabilization and rehabilitation does require

specialized training. Regulatory agencies will not permit wildlife work without the training.

No doubt, IBRRC is under contract to BP, and they will most likely be providing training if needed.

The support work does not require specialized training.

[Usrename]

3. Sadly, it ain't the shit washing up on the beach that's the problem.

If all the oil were on the beaches it would be a whole lot better than killing the largest fishery in the world.

[amborin]

5. the media

also seems to be spinning it in a pro-admin way...to wit the article saying the admin's response was "aggressive"

[TexasObserver]

6. Citizens + Internet = photo journalism of this event.

The mainstream media is not going to tell us what happens. They proved that in Katrina. If we are to see the carnage, citizen journalists have to get out there and do the job. The information can be pooled online.

[corpseratemedia]

12. +100

the 'tubes need to be flooded with reality

[skeptical cynic]

8. Alaskans are watching this spill response

We saw this kind of Keystone Cop spill response in 1989.

We saw how BP protects the environment in 2006.

This kind of tragedy did not have to happen...again.

[Heidi]

9. Recommended.

:kick:

[northernlights]

11. you can still volunteer to help

even with making fur and hair booms.

Petco is hoping to send 2,000 pounds/day of pet fur from it's boutiques to Alabama for local volunteers to make fur booms to soak up the oil. Other dog groomers and hairdressers and barbers are sending hair clippings as well. There are a half dozen collection points for making the booms.

[AllentownJake]

13. I'm not advocating not helping

However, I'm advocating people be careful before they dip their hands in toxic sludge and to take as many pictures as they can and put those pictures and stories out to the world so the world can see what BP did.

[waiting for hope]

14. K&R

Great advice Jake ... :thumbsup:

[spanone]

15. chris matthews is talking about it to the attorney of the folks suing bp