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at first i want to bring in doctor dot doug instant insulate who is it the
senior scientists of the national wildlife federation national wildlife
federation
in w f dot org and uh... the twitter is at m w f
dr include welcome to the program
tend to agree to have you with us uh... there he is need new
well we've been hearing for a couple of weeks now actually
we've had several people on this program one who was a pilot flew over to another
who was who is uh... have bowed out the gulf
the uh... there appear to be
coming out of the area where the condo well was steve b
that the vp well that that blew up in and uh...
murdered eleven men uh...
and not to mention of of whole ecosystem
but apparently that's not the end of the story in fact that's not even at the
union
yep that's right back we had uh... a boat out there on friday picking samples
of the oil that still being found in the gulf of mexico
there's a variety of courses unfortunately for where loyal coming
from the gulf of mexico still a lot of work to quit man on the ground at the at
the bottom of the ocean
but the part of the commonwealth
uh... there aren't a lot of i'd really had occurred that area and a lot of
pipelines and some of that is chronically leaking we know that that
for the national elected a racial about their friday four to look for a family
loyalty cooked up a couple to try to determine what it's worth while
are awful natural thing to do which occur but they're much smaller
they will reply quote below the that's built but at the current supply here
would be good to be paid
gargoyle though the largest our nation's history right so what
with it what do americans need to know about the fact that these there's all
these miles miles miles of pipeline in holland and many many wells there in the
gulf of mexico and that some of them are leaking
chronically
wage use your phrase brown what can be done about it what do people like me to
know about i think what people need to know it better at that right now are all
well and that drilling regulations are not tight enough to prevent accident
like this p_p_o_ bill from occurring
at that that prior level and we've had a number of moral built the average or
building collapsed here
uh... we have the yellow deliver although still several months ago
uh... these things continue and obviously
the regulation but not tight enough let me give you an example of why when your
phone number although though occurred
special thought there might be a problem there for the regulator stepped in in
the pipeline temporarily closed down
after they determined that all federal regulations were being that the pipeline
reopened and public believe it bill occurred
clearly the regulations of the group today
are not
strong enough to prevent think like that from happening so but the merrick people
need to support what congress need to do
support stronger or oil and gas regulation i would have taken no action
on that the oil phil
of last year in the gulf of mexico
what specifically in the soil against regulations that should be stronger are
you
uh... our u_n_ or the national wildlife uh...
federation
mother never picked out a lot of getting the practical details isn't quite
complex but one of the paper not occurring right now it wonderful bill
the perfect pondered balloting
they really don't know what what
built they don't know what type of oil was in the pipeline they don't know
anything about it and a lot of times chemical for added to the oil to help
the flow oil from different places different characteristics
some of the kill both bill occurred
built the reverse
bill kurdish summer the first responder to really didn't know what they were
delivered to one of the first things that happened the right to know if the
people know what they're dealing with so we're talking about transparency in the
part of the corporations are doing the drilling
prepare people that the perfect bonnet and the people that are living in the
pipeline know what's going through the pipeline for their own safety and
well-being
seems like common sense it was that an and once i imparted along with that part
of the uh...
uh... that he'd hear other regulations or has that never been broken i'm not
aware that that never been a part of a regulation
one of the probability mouth of the partners well that coming down from
canada it's much more corrupt the than the well that uh... used to be pumped
and so the problem is that it could make uh... the pipeline more vulnerable to
leak
and and built in thing to the fact so it is important to know what is being piped
in the plate you put in
plate the property deregulation
and what's been done soon
not about uh... clearly
uh... again nothing has changed a in last year's it could be p_l_o_ though
congress hasn't taken any action
i'm concerned that they haven't taken any action to strengthen the oil gas
drilling regulations
an awful they have not taken any action
that would be in fact put in place
the fire could be p paid
or the gulf oil filter put that back into the gulf of mexico for restoration
right now it goes out where would not go back into the gulf brazil's mercenaries
story the federal treasury i'd believe though that that's right
well that's not so what we need to do is is vp you know
at a lot of impact and i dot but they put the but by the paparazzi
it's right for congress to dedicate those fine-tune the clean water act back
into the gulf of mexico frustration that need to happen
we've been hearing to mark up a bill independent later that week on wednesday
and at the bipartisan bill order by members senators that would actually
dedicate the upon from their prime uh... blockquote restoration were strongly
supportive of that why is it that we seize the
republicans like body
lol and democrats like blanche lincoln uh...
you know who represents were mary landrieu who represent gulf coast states
consistently working on the side of the oil companies as opposed to on the side
of the of the uh... of the environment in that region and the people who make
their living in the past part of environment a small insured person
and and fishermen and things like that
bug very clear that all along that tremendous economic driver for the
community about a louisiana now where along the coast in particular
uh... an enormous amount of money
the photos uh... commercial fishing outdoor recreation fishing a
recreational fishing hunting thing for this pipe and they need to be a proper
balance
more concerned about here at the national wildlife federation
right now the ballot tended to be u
cords the oil and gas by giving proper configuration to other people who are
being put out of their job whether they felt seafood restaurant
or or at the actual cash but the location and often exit
favored dallas through the weekend
he's barely just finishing up a book on
and scandals of the oil industry around the world including united states
it referred to
uh... bcp icp beer npr is the national
petroleum broadcasting you know basically that they they weren't
accusing them of not telling the story uh... because they're taking large
donations i know i can turn on a t_v_ high-end c_n_n_ should push any chance
and that c_n_n_ for big oil big gas
all of the they had to guess tracking company so-called clean coal there is no
such thing uh...
is this
always of basically haney money off to media organizations
and saying up please don't discuss their problems
that clear to me that the large contributions but beyond that the
mysteries making
who individual
campaign at the run for office
uh... and probably making a big difference they have much more of a
capability with the big dollars but they bring in
to import the members of congress for prospect of members of congress then do
uh... people like uh... a recreational fishermen such as mattel for harsh
repression
clearly there but they have that way
one of the things that concerns me is that so much remained hidden ide became
extremely frustrated
during the oil filter
because even the information about how with killing the birds and everybody on
they're there for the public property
help other off those impacting the burden for the future of the fabric was
being kept secret
we were being told how much oil with big spill how many dead people where or how
many dead bird that was what he says that the result of that
over bought and paid media
i'd like to think of the media has
giving the information out there that uh... come from all flights and
it put the media actually i have to get the media credit because what happened
in uh... during the oil filled with a lot of them dug and dug and dug
itself i believe it is the administration's force and a lot of
people forced to give up some of this information cousins most that's the news
size acted out he's leaving is the senior scientist national wildlife
federation and the u_s_ uh... world is the website within the u_s_
craig thank you very much thank you um... going to have you with us on the
program today of this is still one of many issues this institution of the we
must not forget disorder for