Drill, Spill, Repeat? Breaking Offshore Oil Drilling's Destructive Cycle

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