Gulf Boat Captain Mike Ellis: "BP Is Burning Sea Turtles Alive" (VIDEO)

And they are critically endangered Kemps Ridley turtles, no less.

• "They drag a boom between two shrimp boats and whatever gets caught between the two boats, they circle it up and catch it on fire.  Once the turtles are in there, they can’t get out."

(More video below.)

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Source:  Fox News Tampa Bay

VENICE, La. - A boat captain working to rescue sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico says he has seen BP ships burning sea turtles and other wildlife alive.

Captain Mike Ellis said in an interview posted on You Tube that the boats are conducting controlled burns to get rid of the oil.

"They drag a boom between two shrimp boats and whatever gets caught between the two boats, they circle it up and catch it on fire. Once the turtles are in there, they can’t get out," Ellis said.

Ellis said he had to cut short his three-week trip rescuing the turtles because BP quit allowing him access to rescue turtles before the burns.

"They're pretty much keeping us from doing what we need to do out there," Ellis said.

Other reports corroborate Captain Ellis' claims. A report in the Los Angeles Times describes "burn fields" of 500 square miles in which 16 controlled burns will take place in one day.

"When the weather is calm and the sea is placid, ships trailing fireproof booms corral the black oil, the coated seaweed and whatever may be caught in it, and torch it into hundred-foot flames, sending plumes of smoke skyward in ebony mushrooms," the article says.

Ellis said most of the turtles he has seen are Kemps Ridley turtles, a critically endangered species. Harming or killing one would bring stiff civil and criminal penalties and fines of up to $50,000 against BP.

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[DailyBail]

Is BP burning sea turtles alive?

http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/oil_spill/is-bp-burning-sea-turtles-alive-06222010

[DailyBail]

Children Frolic on Oily Florida Beaches, Time to End BP-Financed Tourism Ads [Video]

http://www.fastcompany.com/1663540/how-safe-are-florida-beaches-instead-of-sand-children-now-getting-oil-stuck-to-their-feet?partner=rss

[DailyBail]

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking lot and a messy trail of sand and water on the main beach road. A few miles away, brown liquid drips out of a disposal bin filled with polluted sand.

BP PLC's work to clean up the mess from the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history already has generated more than 1,300 tons of solid waste, and companies it hired to dispose of the material say debris is being handled professionally and carefully.

A spot check of several container sites by The Associated Press, however, found that's not always the case.

Along the northern Gulf coast, where miles of beaches have been coated with oil intermittently for two weeks, the check showed the handling and disposal of oily materials was haphazard at best.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_waste_disposal_4

[DailyBail]

Oil from the massive Gulf of Mexico spill reached the white sands of Pensacola in north-eastern Florida, forcing local authorities Thursday to close down area beaches to swimming at the height of summer.

"There's oil both in the water and in the sand," said Warren Bielenberg, an official with the Gulf Islands National Seashore, one of the areas affected by the spill.

"There's a double red flag, so it's not permitted to swim," he said.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.6c2a6c345110898b9d3218b57843fd7b.21&show_article=1

[DailyBail]

Government Prepares Devastating Report On Underwater Oil Plumes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/06/22/eveningnews/main6607960.shtml

[DailyBail]

Maywood, CA Lays Off All City Employees, Dismantles Police Department

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/sheriffs-dept-to-patrol-maywood-while-city-employees-now-face-lay-offs.html

[Texas Dar]

Well, BP dosent git a crap about the people in America, why would they care about our sea animals. If it dosent make profit, it dosent need to live. This is way past Sick....?

[S. Gompers]

That is why so many things are extinct T. Dar, idiots destroying habitat for a buck. Hunter organizations spend huge money every year protecting/ rebuilding habitat, thereby protecting their sport.

[Texas Dar]

I know Gomps. It makes me sick. Guess when they have killed off all the animals, and us, they'll need to start eating thier own dead loved ones. They will neaver see it comming.

Ahhhh, but God has a memory a bit longer than a "Wife-e-Pooh"...............& thAre day is a commin, sooner than they think. I've said before, God saves thier sole before man can hurt them............

[S. Gompers]

Corporatism is a form of cannabalism T. Dar.