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Environmentalist dies (Crushed by a tree...)
NEWSOK.com ^
| 7-21-04
Posted on 07/21/2004 5:23:34 AM PDT by veronica
TULSA - Blake Champlin, a Tulsa lawyer and environmental activist, died Monday at his home when a tree supporting a hammock fell and crushed him.
Champlin, 45, died instantly, said Gerald Hilsher, an attorney with Shipley & Kellogg, Champlin's former law firm.
Champlin was a member of Sierra Club and Save the Illinois River, and the director of Keep Tulsa Beautiful. He also pushed for an agreement between Oklahoma and Arkansas on phosphorus limits in northeast Oklahoma waters, Hilsher said.
Champlin was a past director of the Oklahoma Society of Environmental Professionals and a past chairman of the Environmental Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.
He was a featured speaker at numerous environmental seminars throughout the region and represented many individuals in northeast Oklahoma who sued poultry companies for alleged water and air pollution, specifically around the Grand Lake area.
Champlin became a named-partner of Shipley, Jennings & Champlin and, in 2002, he joined the Tulsa law firm of Boone, Smith, Davis, Hurst & Dickman, where he headed their environmental law department.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Asbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: decadentsociety; environment; environmentalist; godswrath; idolworshipping; ironicdeath; irony; mothereearth; oops; secularhumanism; sierraclub; squish; worshipthecreation; wrathofgod
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To: Happygal
I know!
"Mother Nature annoyed by evirotwits, takes matters into her own branch."
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:11:21 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
To: Feckless
What about the poor tree?Unfortunately once a tree has tasted human blood it must be destroyed.
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:12:34 AM PDT
by
jalisco555
("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats)
To: rrrod
It got in the way.
It needed to be elimnated, it knew too much.
43
posted on
07/21/2004 6:12:53 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
To: Core_Conservative
Yup, should have sprayed for bores.
To: Darksheare
sad ....terrible waste of a good hammock
45
posted on
07/21/2004 6:14:15 AM PDT
by
rrrod
To: veronica
He wanted to be one with the tree. He got his wish.
46
posted on
07/21/2004 6:15:04 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Kerry Lied. Soldiers Died.)
To: veronica
"You have failed me for the last time." -- Gaia
47
posted on
07/21/2004 6:20:11 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(We have to support RINOs like Specter; their states are too liberal to elect someone like Santorum.)
To: veronica
The rest of the trees in the country need to take a lesson from this one!
Good work tree!
48
posted on
07/21/2004 6:25:26 AM PDT
by
dalereed
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Will he be buried in a pine box, or a plastic one?
Whew... now I don't have to risk throwing out my insensitive question of the day.
49
posted on
07/21/2004 6:25:41 AM PDT
by
kenth
To: veronica
Well, if you live by the tree, you die by the tree.
50
posted on
07/21/2004 6:25:56 AM PDT
by
wizr
To: BartMan1; Nailbiter
... from the 'you can't make this sh!t up' file...
51
posted on
07/21/2004 6:28:57 AM PDT
by
IncPen
(Proud member of the Half Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
To: veronica
You live by the tree; you die by the tree.
To: asgardshill
53
posted on
07/21/2004 6:31:56 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Nobody "inadvertently" takes sensitive docs in their pants.)
To: wizr
Sorry! Didn't read the other comments first.
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:32:25 AM PDT
by
wizr
To: 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed; g'nad; JenB; RosieCotton; Ramius; ecurbh
Tulsa Ents 1, Orcs 0 ping...
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:33:07 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(I'm going on vacation in 9 days...)
To: Jonah Hex
I knew homosexual marriage would take things too far.
56
posted on
07/21/2004 6:35:18 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
To: veronica
What are the odds of this happening and happening to a tree-hugger? Life is weird.
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:36:40 AM PDT
by
tiki
To: Corin Stormhands
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:38:48 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(Expect me when you see me!)
To: rrrod
Yes, but for a good cause.
It shall be remembered as a hero, valiantly giving up it's life to assist in taking down an envirotwit lawyer.
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posted on
07/21/2004 6:40:55 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
To: veronica
What a tragedy...
60
posted on
07/21/2004 6:41:57 AM PDT
by
Jaxter
("Guys like John Kerry spit on guys like me. I've been waiting 33 years to spit back.")
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