Polar bear shot and killed at BP Alaska oil field (she was in agony for 2 weeks)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2011/alaska-dispatch-08-24-2011.html

Alaska Dispatch, August 24, 2011

Polar bear shot and killed at BP Alaska oil field
By Patti Eppler

A North Slope security guard shot and killed a polar bear earlier this month after the bear resisted efforts to drive it away from employee housing at BP's Endicott oil field.

The death appears to have been accidental, according to BP Alaska spokesman Steve Rinehart, who said the guard thought he'd fired a bean bag round at the female bear but BP later discovered it was a "cracker shell" that mortally wounded her.

The polar bear death is the first time in 35 years of working on the North Slope that a bear has been killed by a security guard working for BP, Rinehart said.

"We dearly wish it had not happened," Rinehart said, "but it's not a trend or a population impact. We have worked safely and carefully around polar bears under strict guidance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."

FULL story at link.

[Seedersandleechers]

1. When I was vacationing in Barrow Alaska one summer

I watched in horror as several Inuits chased a polar bear in a flat bed truck and gunned the bear down right in front of me. Apparently the Inuits are allowed to do that. It was a slow death and I'm still haunted by it today.
:cry:

[aquamarina]

2. Does BP do anything that doesn't harm mother nature?

[stellanoir]

3. no they don't

[Doremus]

4. I can't read it but I hope there are reserved seats in hell for BP mgt

I haven't been able to read any articles about animals since the posts about bile farms.

Reading that sent me into a depression that I still haven't been able to climb out of.


So many humans are evil. :cry: :cry: :cry: