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Sat 06 Jun 2010BP accused of burning turtles amid oil clean-up
CONSERVATIONISTS AND wildlife experts have accused BP of indiscriminately burning alive endangered sea turtles and other marine creatures in 1,300sq km “burn fields” as it tries to dispose of oil from its leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
The killing of the turtles – which once teetered on the brink of extinction – has outraged environmentalists and could put BP into even deeper legal jeopardy.
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