Yet there is another species the depends on something else.
What
bands of oil sheen still drift along the sea and coastline.
this stretch farther than the eye can see
Santa Barbara experienced the worst environmental disaster of the
We have been continually altering the seascapes
we
continental shelf near the coast of Santa Barbara,
over 2.5 million gallons of crude oil
of the world's sea turtle species are found in the Gulf of Mexico
of ocean.
a memorandum to lift the exactly prohibition on oil exploration in
I've got mine playing out here
California's
the oil
and whale sharks frequent the northern Gulf often 5
Slice of power.
. All of these marine creatures depend on the solution for
cleared away.
Waiting for us just around the corner
said they were
We need to take action now to expand domestic oil production.
If you see what I can do to help
well you know what makes your whole run
my we're making sure people know that the Gulf is open for
archives he flew again.
The Atlantic bluefin tuna stands in these waters
over 100 miles of pristine California beach were littered
in 1969
house and home.
The Gulf of Mexico is home to a wide variety of marine life.
the debate became so contentious
boat.
PhD physicist from
what's wrong with letting people know the truth.
lose the liquid energy from its subterranean prison
is not.
Unfortunately,
The people of BP made a commitment to the goal
after Santa Barbara
that we were flying over miles and miles and miles of non-stop oil
in President George W Bush's second term,
That cost them a lot of money to go out there and fix that,
Weldon,
4 years ago.
grade areas became.
sperm whales inhabit the area year round
filters the waters.
sold about 1500 Saxon
gushed into the ocean after a blowout at an offshore drilling rig
in the Gulf for many years.
should help people and businesses who are affected,
I was not popular
I was going to you.
correct committed to the car
I say what you
, and they saw with their own eyes
the executive branch's restrictions on this exploration have been
in March of 1989.
and lasted for over 15 years.
The worst oil spill in this nation's history.
crop fish season.
the Gulf of Mexico is a virtual city of oil and gas platforms
so it's like
we're having
So today,
that's when they realize that
President HW Bush reacted to the public outcry and banned offshore
that he lifted his father's 17-year
with oily dead birds and marine animals
we're okay.
the marina
and its limit.
but this man-made disaster just laying around we still in trouble
and
should commercialization
and
then in business here for 138
the first offshore drilling rigs were established on the
peacefully in the dark recesses of the year
he.
highs and lows economics highs and lows whether
Coast Guard has to answer
if we do a 3rd of that that's plenty
No.
mirror how we got here
related cleanup costs
have gone out of business
We're not gonna have a good environment you no commercial
we're not gonna do it under our brain.
You know,
time
as time goes on.
billion
some issues with we've taken it for granted for so long
wouldn't be the right thing that they do
just you know
that human activities are changing in the wake of the Exxon Valdez
The Gulf of Mexico is immeasurably changed.
fishermen.
not think about it
BP commercially would have you believe.
I used to sell that week 240
our cable installer he the one I'm sucks,
and it's a fact every business around.
that there is no one in here.
are losing it because of the,
Okay.
recreational fishing
over the last 10 days,
Today,
Oil is the greatest revenue in the US Treasury.
our families.
and I'm not sure that anyone else was wiring that.
by today 10 million gallons of oil covered a hundred square miles
whatever we cover.
here.
oyster season or its crab season it's you know
we're talking about human law.
We're not
groceries to stores
ban on offshore drilling.
the ALCS with this action,
fitness.
what I was showing
California
we've
over and over again
All of the ancillary businesses
can all the seasons
There still remains a mystery
Mr. thank you know it's nothing,
and to see what it is like today.
family
people
you know,
in the goalkeeper.
That is again in my words.
accountability
when a super tanker owned by the Exxon
Well I
irresponsibility
Rural
The dream of oil
operation,
It's affecting my
Continued by his successor
The beaches are fearful
the beaches and go for open for everyone enjoyed
I got a few shells that
drilling
were I haven't they get what we can
it even became a campaign topic in the 1988 presidential election
business.
we've been able
I was,
ice house and stabbed the
We're not going to just
eclipsing the horizon.
And Bonnie Shoemaker and
Whether the Gulf
for millions of years
Oyster production is down at least 93%
because when I come back on every flight my report
It's how we
The woman
it's a little disconcerting.
the tragic started in my life.
The reason they didn't want anybody to know how much they were
the nation was divided into pro offshore drilling and anti
a lot of the issues
you're our contacts in their new stuff
survival.
11 million died that day.
Don't forget it.
style cable.
an expert
to go through all those years
You know,
million now go to BP commercials has a lot of people believe in
Louisiana.
had overcome.
I'm still here
of all the market
Second only to taxes.
shells that we shot
this source of power slept
. Little did we know what was.
until modern magic
stick to my shoes and I walk in the house and sticking to the
After oil spill.
In 1896
for 29 years
But don't forget,
that ban was.
for our families bills.
Every one of those men
and gas company has to answer.
the pool blew it out of me.
record tourism season.
and even that
Right in front of me this far since I was frightened
I'd be terminated.
Here we go.
this
Used to produce 40%
even even around that BP site the Deepwater Horizon
will.
and these guys
is
areas had been non productive more more processors like ourselves
We haven't received anything from BP,
to technology.
will retrain
oyster production is like the canary in a mine.
drought down because I no longer handle
I've issue them more
But I'm not going to recover.
offshore drilling
Corporation hit a reef 25 miles off the port of Valdez
my life in my culture.
So
how much they pollute
crabs
You know you that you know
The canary dies you a job,
and 40 sacks of voice of the day.
outside help from around the world
and this man-made disasters about the biggest hurdle we've ever
And the reason they turn them down,
My friend production is down still down between 40% to 60%
and and
coming out of government
It's only been chemically poisoned faces wine
to do anything.
and so is deepening
So
Oyster Company
polluting
You shouldn't be known as water man,
and every day 6.
does something that is legitimately wrong.
Those
and I've been
they had wives,
Who would have 4 people
but have began to be able to
there was extensive Sheen contingent leakage into 20-12
I put 20
that
and
Okay.
in their very very sick
And it feels
There's gonna be less of us doing this
internal bleeding hemorrhaging
If you take me and put me in the caught up in the field or to
They may never get their lives back.
when people swim in the water.
is
neurological symptoms like tremors,
here's
Local communities and those who joined the response team to help
is because the Faymann
but a fall.
We all know
in my area
we're paying for
hospital
I apologize.
are so sick
do something that's inferior
I don't think a lot of people know they are,
people like myself.
It wasn't until 2007
Now
in that it was all messed
major oil spill.
sell anything
in the last 4 years on
NRC report
the brain
well I'm putting somebody else out of a job.
has proven itself to be
BP did not want any outside help
I had to go be rush to the mercy room pump you can throw no shit
the ones that
former world rally
almost 100%
We worked hard to keep running.
last year many areas even reported
the scientists that I would take out.
you have
in April 20-10 if you do not.
you'll see today
to
correct said 95-27 contains a very toxic solvent.
never give us any,
today
includes.
regime
cease.
since 1921
but everyone who loves it everyone
so I would back Thomas supervisor,
in heart symptoms liver damage
until we get our Easter population back which
It took place on Friday,
mullet
and it was a justice,
the mid 1980s
and parents and children.
you know,
situation
where any time
cooler
different.
Let's go
be in water
Was not pretty,
suits and yells tape around Young's boots and gloves and
and ones that are gonna get sick
the,
things commercial fishermen in Southeast Louisiana
and it's out there.
missing food is delicious
well first of all,
do something else to give you an action
people will provide snacks and
I make a living
won't
in the Gulf,
is not as good as those
We've been doing this for 138 years
I,
get out of there
BP has paid over$23
I fell out
And rejected.
why would BP
These animals is a liar.
if nobody bothered
Oil means horsepower in a horse power using water.
in 2000
flounder
of of an enterprise is going on
used
the cleanup workers
I know.
spoiled
that it's
You know it's not out of the
oysters
outside the 7 over here
It followed me inside
There have been studies done from previous oil spills,
The attacks eternal
there is
I can't do it anymore.
Now
when things
from their public oyster grounds public grounds used to produce
compartmentalize whole thing and
The oil and gas industry is pressuring the federal government to
floor.
We probably still hear the leap done the most to force
our nervous system
transportation companies
pay him.
They were actually changed once I took them out there in the plane
Everything.
80 90% my business was repairs because
hurricanes,
BP disaster was it was predictable poorly regulated
life as they know it has changed indefinitely.
Shopping house
killed everybody
training to be a very sorry.
Their communities have not recovered.
worked out here in processed our oysters we all grew up with this
skin rashes,
you know
a dispersant
and a lot times it'll get reported at all.
We would like to see
Just see what it was like
And never had problems with
6 on
you notes
it should be the other way around.
I see
Shreya.
allow the first step in offshore drilling in the Atlantic as soon
Coast Guard says it's not a matter of
any kind of
you know,
would like to find out about the real cost for drilling offshore
as the people that
up to
We
human health crisis
in this
I want to work with
they made victims
starting to
for years
and exposed my family
they had families
they can do they want to do follow.
if,
of what can happen
how massive
because we can hold out.
My name's on Al sunset our e-Colonna and president of P and J
it goes through lipid
11 are supposed to well
and 10
with the cleanup has not.
fisheries
the heart,
towed by ships and vast arrays
emerge
I don't have the education be a brain surgeon I'm on
morning
is
system.
kidney damage
Everybody thinks about the long-term
How you approach things.
experiment.
The lessons that should have been learned from the BP disaster,
get sick
And.
underreported in terms of size
owned the business since
it's because they didn't want anybody to know
So here comes a domino effect would tell anybody
you know we've learned our lessons it'll be fine.
explosion.
and fact we would be in a similar situation
oil disaster.
A 3rd we could
offshore drilling
hours a day
we talk$120
maximizing profits cutting corners taking risks
have not been learned.
it causes internal bleeding
no,
you get a choice.
This is an industry
aren't aware
in the industry.
On 27-2014
is based on the amount of pollution.
that
Thousand
particularly the
sundown this
. The spill has brought to light
the dynamite like blasts a repeated every 10 seconds 24
For them,
We're talking about a chemical
This first step
Older people.
This is not a normal situation.
In 2000.
in a 100 year period.
years
that is of higher quality
Is subject
it just happened to be VP.
hers
and yells,
exceedingly irresponsible
moves up new
There are risky practices that happen any time you're drilling in
he told me if I said anything else.
2000 interior
was offered.
You know they shut
Will,
all of that is that there are wreck reflection
is convictions
used to get very emotional talking about this,
Amounts to a shakedown.
Democracy
are timely turnaround
through all those different Hobson Dion's award
5 generations now
and powerful enough to penetrate several miles deep into the sea
and with my brother
of all see voices and since the
is highly toxic,
has been an operation
can't see how to
text everything it touches
but threatens the survival of marine species,
included in their ability
oil was being released from that
gallons of
everything the mixture of correction in oil
We're not just talking about an oil spill.
oil spill
If anybody
Tuesday years just talk soup dispersant
and
he please
And we're gonna stop offshore drilling
were woefully
unprepared
they never
pollution in the Gulf
a citizen or a corporation
life is they know it.
used to always be filled up with product.
we're going to get.
I was recovering from Katrina.
There's a
tell should then first
I make
put this doctor told me
and
is not a spectator sport.
then
known as seismic air gun blasting
they threaten their very survival.
Our future
are usually gets£10,000
hurricanes.
said
the industry is moving far too fast for the response side
There's 2 kinds of people,
used commercial gear
and those who have already taken action
more readily
every organ system
going to happen
And all those families have been deprived of their loved ones.
the suppose
was the natural disasters
meters
carried Beach North Carolina did just that.
The next week
Covering up
coming across the ghost duties nets and interest in it dispersants
gotcha respirators zone
for the false vote
I've lost faith and and
million
oil and gas will move in.
program
It sounds sort of rhetorical and cliched but I've lived it.
so I went back told my supervisor
It was highly experimental
spilled repeat..
to some sort of political pressure.
for running roughshod over local and state governments and
In terms of
mental fatigue.
via
and so many different things wrong with me now.
they spoke for their citizens and unanimously voted to oppose
We're down£3,000
hasn't
exactly how much
Seismic air guns
BP
for days to weeks
correction
and
their car
If anything
citizen after citizens spoke up
The industry
It opens up so
stop Atlantic drilling before it starts.
stretch of imagination that we could have a multiple blowout
This circus was crawling up water
they should come see us here in Louisiana.
deep water.
made
Stocks.
all the animals are trying to get out the water.
he said.
Our government is currently taking steps to open the Atlantic to
I do not want to live in a country
times louder than a jet plane engine
there's.
The blasts from these air guns are almost incomprehensible allowed
You know,
in some senses,
should have been given some kind of
You know that that's really what's necessary for protecting
by the industry to report their own violations
were suffering from
and we can break this cycle.
Like
skin FMG advantage,
response preparedness
we have spill.
on the Louisiana coast and a lot of these pipelines were meant to
seismic air again blasting will put the stability of the regional
I hope that he will think again
causes the oil to enter the body
That's what keeps me up at night.
seismic blasts threaten not only the hearing of marine life
so many places are heavily dependent on tourism,
the liver the kidney
that they want to put offshore oil platforms,
pretty clear tonight.
that's why breaks up the oil once it's in the body oil targets
the leaks and spills that we're finding on a regular basis
holes in
the pupils
So
There's also this absurd
almost self-billion up my ass.
if something along the Gulf Coast syndrome
The small community came together to oppose their mayor's support
in May.
It's not gonna be pretty
rip a hole and when they will smile a Texas
but it's true there are thousands of people who,
will be changed.
In America,
they're allowed to use it.
the cell walls,
Me and my wife.
and salt water is very corrosive.
There are many other economically productive ways
in the.
as possible.
When you don't have a life on a reef the reef is dead.
that has a track record
to.
prostitute in itself
My wife got secondhand exposure,
A resolution
it sticks to the Milan.
it sticks to my hands.
And there are so many symptoms
combined with a category 5 hurricane
I really
gave me much hands and you what I have
they are
More than half a million people in coastal communities on the east
Our
that people have.
It is scary for me to hear
I think our government
won't touch your net because I don't touch me
At what point are we willing to say and.
time and time again
100,000
fishing and
the solvent.
of victims.
to even months on end
2 years
caught in the crossfire of these blasts.
that rappers
memory loss
are quite often vastly
The habitats that
you had found some
a week.
negative
an
Without those wetlands.
we know this.
the future revenue.
is our choice.
politicians
in the Gulf.
mood
people need to be thinking about protecting the assets they have.
Under our current regulations 2
You don't have to build.
Cancer
there's a constant problem with with leaking pipelines.
were released.
regulators
emit blasts of compressed air into the ocean
you can have problems.
I know that we can work together
Detroit seismic testing
not only leads the way for risky drilling
watching all that oil into the shore.
The exploration side,
that we can
Was there
and I think the people made up
turn.
They will be open.
and visit www.drill
you know,
There is simply too great
you know our coastal communities from storm surge
outsized
Let's not let the wants of the few
in the number of wetlands along our coast
helpfully economy will for causing
in every single ocean where we have drilled,
Public
these permission.
the largest man made environmental disaster in US history.
they witnessed the public outcry.
a week.
and most people just
mapping the seafloor for deeply buried pockets of oil and gas.
when it comes to mobilizing response
things just shouldn't be personnel
vibrant Ocean for their livelihoods
industry,
this is about dollars and cents.
it's a matter of when.
outweigh the needs of the many
They're not some outlier
that we were
brutish mercurial
and I respect if you support offered drilling and seismic
them,
work with our coastline
fisheries
the cost of this.
people are protected.
I've seen communities come together build coalitions.
and those that depend on them in jeopardy.
I've seen it happen.
drop
coast of the United States depend on a healthy
after to what doesn't make sense.
to make sure
talk to your elected officials
floor
if pretty irresponsible think they're well
and shared their vision for the coast.
I wonder
seismic blasting.
Any time you move in the coming,
off the coast of the Atlantic
who didn't
Mississippi has seen a 50%
as you know everything there is a place
Although not by her appeal
Join Oceana,
communities,
I believe who their
for seismic blasting off their coast
our oceans our economies.
is done in a manner so that
Potomac Billiton and beat
you some
enthusiastically
preference
passing I completely respect but as an elected representative,
Well,
which employs more people
You could
that whatever's