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Posted Thu Aug 25 2011: from
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Polar bear death at BP oil field under investigation http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1314313391
Federal authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a polar bear at an Alaska oil field operated by BP, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the oil company said on Thursday.
The female bear was shot in early August by a security guard working for a BP contractor and died of its wounds about 11 days later, the agency and BP officials said.
BP said the guard had been trying to ward off the bear rather than kill it and believed he was firing nonlethal ammunition....Polar bears, considered to be at risk because the Arctic sea ice they depend upon is dwindling, are listed as threatened with extinction under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. They are also managed under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which generally forbids hunting of the animals.
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'Doc Jim says:
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BP can either wait for global warming to kill them or take matters into their own hands.
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Oh wait: When it comes to BP, it's the same thing.
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