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120 dead dolphins off the Texas coast
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/texas-dolphins-stranded-dead-noaa_n_1591645.html<snip>
The deaths of more than 120 dolphins off the Texas coast has prompted a federal agency to declare the event "unusual" and launch an investigation into whether they were related to a drought-related algae bloom or a more widespread mortality event that has plagued the northern Gulf of Mexico for two years.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has called the stranding of 123 dolphins on Texas shores from November through March an "unusual mortality event," an official federal listing that allows the agency to access additional funds and set up a team of researchers.
All but four of the dolphins that washed up in Texas were dead, and the few that turned up alive died a short time later, said Blair Mase, the southeast marine mammal stranding network coordinator for NOAA Fisheries. What alarmed scientists though, was the age of the bottle-nosed dolphins that washed up – juveniles rather than the very young or elderly that normally would be found – and the fact that Texas had a years-worth of dead dolphins turn up in a five-month period.
Some of the dolphins also were found with discolored teeth and lung infections, prompting researchers to investigate whether they were affected by the same disease found in more than 700 strandings in the northern Gulf, an area stretching from the Texas-Louisiana line east to the Florida Panhandle. Researchers suspect the lung disease may be connected to the millions of gallons of oil that fouled the Gulf in April 2010 after a well blowout on a BP-operated rig, but have yet to make a final determination, Mase said.
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Calling BP???????
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I could just spit.
BP destroyed what was left of a productive eco-system, essentially got away scot free ( did not even pay out the full damages amount it promised it would pay)
and now people are wondering why dolphins and fish and shrimp are all dying along the Gulf Coast????????
I now believe in hell.
I watched BP create one.
Punishable by death. 
If corporations are people let's start making examples of these fuckers and not letting them get away with their crimes.
addicted to cars when they could damn well ride a bike or WALK!
I'll take your and raise you a 
BP would be at the top of my suspect list to. Or some other evil corporation who spilled something toxic into the gulf.
