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June 8th, 2010
09:00 AM ET
Oiled birds washed and ready to be released
(CNN) – The images tear your heart out. It's a life and death struggle for birds soaked in oil, shivering and barely breathing. Thanks to the hard working volunteers at a Louisiana rehab center, there have been many happy endings – dozens of creatures ready to be released back into the wild. The director of the center says about 90 birds came in on Sunday alone, by far the biggest single day rescue of this disaster. Our Rob Marciano went out with a marine biologist to look at the wildlife now at risk.
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"Should BP CEO resign and be personally charged for negligence?"
Well, history seems to show that the leaders of corporations – Enron, Countrywide, AIG, BP, etc. – seldom are held personally responsible for the actions they take in the name of business. I, personally, would like to see BP's senior staff's entire bodies dipped in their own crude oil, one dunk for each gallon of oil that has escaped into the Gulf. If we 'punished' these 'leaders' in a way that reflect the 'damage' done to society, as a whole, I'd be willing to bet that 'ethical behavior' would become a major chapter in each corporation's "Standards of Operational Proceedures" binders.
I have thought about all the so called professionals that are handling this oil spill on the Gulf Coast. What exactly are they doing? I see no results but a lot of money being spent. They need to get some good old boys from the south to figure this out. My theory is take a large tyvex cover and make a tube with it, put weights on the end and drop it over the oil gusher. They tyvex will not let the oil escape into the gulf. Have barges close by to suck up the oil as it rises to the top of the tube. There will be no more oil floating to harm any of natures life in the ocean and until BP can figure out how to stop the leaking this would be a solution that would be less costly and more effective. Thanks