news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations throughout the day. welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering here in r.t. now the former i.m.f. chief who is accused of sexual assault will be time to under house arrest after being granted one million dollars bail but there are concerns the scandal surrounding his resignation of might jeopardize the financial aid given to even economies and even at the survival of the euro currency. is really u.s. relations are being tested ahead of prime minister netanyahu is coming to meeting

with president obama israeli leader blasted obama's near call for palestinian borders to be based on nothing more in one thousand and sixty seven. and the japanese firm behind the world's worst nuclear crisis since turn over all has posted a record loss of fifteen billion dollars ahead of the company has resigned as workers battle of the fukushima power plant where i felt sounds good recorded in its reactors well a year on from the worst oil spill in american history r.t. visits the coastline that suffered most to hear how the fates of the local environment is determining how communities recover. cool. thirty five years ago wilma helped identify a toxic debt some suffocating the marine life in the gulf of mexico the dead cell is all encompassing it's gone on the mississippi river it's in the gulf the dead

zone has a shoot impact along the coastal areas where you have the fisheries resources. we know that is being caused by runoff in the midwest. the midwest has been growing more to more and more corn requires a heavy a photo has a lot of. every you nine hundred thousand tons of agricultural fertilizer washes into the mississippi river from thirty one states outside louisiana. as the river moves through louisiana it brings all those nutrients down with it because algae blooms which use up the oxygen and cause what's called the dead zone and slow no oxygen. makes sense from the mouth of the mississippi all the way into texas. no fish no

crabs all the type of aquatic organisms that they normally catch so it's having an impact on the whole united states but it's only quote impacting the economic base along the coastal areas. occasionally i feel the food and music i think of one of the richest places in the world but now natural resources are something that folks who've been in power have abused and neglected.

two hundred petrochemical plants line eighty five miles of the mississippi river between baton rouge and new orleans. they produce over twenty five percent of the petro chemicals made in the united states. it's known as cancer alley. the book when i brought my son michael holmes from the hospital they told me he might be blind deaf or brain damage and certainly more the more susceptible cerebral palsy and more susceptible to respiratory infections and monia etc. and then i realized that the air was in on attainment here meaning that it was unhealthy to breathe seventeen times that year the year that i brought him home i felt really like our basic civil rights are being violated that i wasn't

certain when i opened up my window that i was getting clean air i wasn't certain that the earth was clean i wasn't certain that the water that i was drinking was all right and i was terrified for my children are. going to go. so i think there's nothing like a mother's instinct lots of misery something about that we already have to watch when our air quality is bad and then i realize the basic civics lesson that. i am that somebody. asked when i got involved i said i do this for six months and now is

twenty something years ago. wayne is louisiana farm and watching network and we've been working on public health and protecting natural resources for twenty three years. running our way to exxon mobil to the largest petrochemical facility in united states. petrochemical companies in the easy. employ more than one hundred thousand people. there's a lot of folks who are good neighbors that there is this percentage of folks that are really bad neighbors and it really ruined skittles lives literally because they aren't obeying the law. i can't work or tell me when he would come home and his clothes would smell he tells children that was a small money. yes it is jobs but we care about the workers to need to have

a safe job. it is hard when people are worried you know where's my next paycheck going to come from paycheck is coming from my company we are very a tune and try to help people who want to do something but they can only do so much and that and there's no judgment there i mean this is just to be about helping people and not not harming anybody. this is going to harm my job it's going to harm my husband. or you know will my people in the community look at me differently or they think i'm a crazy environmentalist for a while people raise a lot of attacks what you really know is they're not really talking about the substance of what you're saying they're just trying to take attention off of the facts of what's really happening here trying to stereotype you and there's no stereotypical environmentalist anymore is to be a yogurt backpack and crunchy kind of people which i love which you obviously see

are not now it's everybody's moms and dads and grammas and people become more aware about the environment. the more people that have lost in my life in this work the woman who started this work with me ramona was my partner in this work she was another mother actually her husband was a worker at one of the chemical facilities she just wanted to live to be forty and she died at thirty nine of cancer. when someone asks me when they're dying that i'm not forget the day they were here and they were important and so. at least i can do is try to help.

and you have to bring yourself back to why you joined us and for me it's helping people and believing that service is the rand i pay for the space i take up on earth i believe that i owe something back and if it's on as i can talk and walk on i want to help i mean it's life is just about getting through life.

but i'm not pessimistic because if i got pessimistic i would quit doing what i'm doing and just give up and i don't think that we can do that and. these things are just happening here and moving so morales that's not how it works it's everywhere. because of. this mentality that are living with chemistry that we have in some of them it's everywhere it's true vases. but ten thousand mile bag of oil and gas pipelines crisscrosses louisiana's wetlands. today many of those pipelines and their infrastructures i bend and.

my father was military. and when you grow up i think in a household and that environment you learn that you have a responsibility to do the right thing for other people not just you know their companies. they're not even people that corporations they're legal entities and i don't think you can let somebody intimidate you. much of the abandoned oil and gas infrastructure that was initially built on land. but due to erosion storms or misguided attempts to control the mississippi river and much of it is now surrounded by water. not only others come out that they built to access the war in the first place to strongly over

wetlands there are constantly or spills something or leaks out here and when they get done with it it's just there and it's all on the bottom and they have all pipes on the bottom whatever they aren't using they throw overboard the only people that ever see that is are fishermen who work the bottom are shrimpers the skimmer boats because they run into it and skinner and their nets are shreds their nets all up. and i think every bit of the spins on this that are in that water these guys have traditionally fish crab and fin fish and shrimp out here there's less of it for them to catch. the habitat destruction that is occurring if you took every fisherman out of the water and you don't do something about that water quality and the habitat protecting the habitat at the fisheries needs it's going to collapsed.

i and people who work live off of these natural resources it's hard work but it's also a key she connected is real family oriented and you take your kids along when they're young when you're working and keep them with you on the boats and they go to. marketing learn a trade and they can take care of a family or have been here to cast. the net so it's real tight now. and all the money that they can stays within the community and the money goes to the docks in the boats for the notorious for their nets and boat builders you know and it sustains the community as a whole. this is a national treasure and it really is people need to wake up in this country and realize what they're losing when they lose just as to our system here and hopefully.

when we lose a session larry the gulf of mexico fisheries are going to collapse because. this is where those pieces grow up. and i started to have the optimism of the young and i thought that if you point out a problem things will change well it doesn't work that way you've got to really work at it to make things change. million is oil and gas industry generates more than seventy billion dollars per year and employs three hundred twenty thousand people if you look around louisiana

you say well they had all this oil and gas obviously everybody here must be well off and incomes must be high and the road system must be great none of that is true is terrible road system schools are in trouble all the time there's no money for your public services the state's always in a fiscal problem. and yet billions of dollars of oil and gas were removed from the state and our per capita income is among the lowest in the country our poverty rates highest next to mississippi thank god for mississippi so we don't have to be last in everything and so we don't have much to show for it except the waste that they left and to me that's the real crime here is that you had all this wonderful all these wonderful resources and the people got very little of it. every day six thousand workers shuttled by helicopter from soda to boil rakes in

the gulf of mexico. they used to provide forty percent of our tax base now they provide maybe fifteen ten or fifteen percent so there's much less so the benefits coming in have gone down over the year and the impacts have gone up so some point those lines cross in louisiana is a net loser because of having oil and gas development they still provide some jobs but the orleans trees about three percent of our jobs just not to be a part of our job base and. their pride became a problem say in one thousand nine hundred nineteen thirties people began to notice that the waste from the arlin the street which is where they drilled the well and wheezy and they probably drilled a hundred thousand them they would also. just hold the ground and then these pits they would put these waste salt water supply rights all these things they use in

the oil and gas industry it's got hydrocarbons in it like oil it's got heavy metals we find arsenic around these wells a lot and it's got what's called produced water it comes up with the oil three four times the salinity of seawater she dumped on the ground it kills everything it touches so it would kill all thought all these little valleys and creek beds and streams and so when they left the least they would just push the little paid and little dirt over but the landowners left this massive waste which then seeps down to the groundwater and there's a hundred thousand of these out there and many a most deleting land owners are just finally learning about them so it's another one of those legacies and. they knew that these pits were going to leak i've seen reports from the thirty's and say. if you put salt water in these online it's going to leak down the groundwater they continue doing louisiana until the late eighty's . finally now they're supposed to line their pits but we will last state in the

nation to do it and it's really too late in many cases. two decades ago paul helped to write some of the c.n.n. strongest environmental laws. which coil and gas companies fiercely opposed. corruption is probably the biggest problem money in politics corruption and people think of in terms also guys going to pay off that's part of it but it's goes much deeper than that once you begin to change the way an agency does its business once that happens then the whole agency begins to change and it's no longer works for the people it it's what. political scientists call client capture agency becomes captured by the group it's supposed to be regulated and then the agency serves

a group and it doesn't serve the public anymore the good people leave because they don't want to work in that kind of environment and you're left with a sort of dead in the water agency and we have a number of those louisiana. even if you got the law in place industry has had a big say in writing those rules they want to take first look at the regulations and then they would edit them and i was on from that program because the management program over that. thrilled baby drill. right there i. guess we must rely on shore well yes we need conservation alternative fuels nuclear and many other things we also need more domestic production you can come off the coast of louisiana see how we're doing with the most modern technology so it's

a day we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration now administration will consider potential areas for development in the mid and south atlantic and the gulf of mexico. everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall in draw mostly factions this will be very very modest with saudi school in message disruption in schools their lives and you know we'd there's no one who wants this thing as it moves and i just you know i'd love my life back.

leads to identify louisiana creek a training marina and post katrina and rita and now it's pretty spill and post down like you like life as we know it is changed forever. it's just unbelievably bad when they want to start burning the heavy portion of it we had to insist that it only be burned when the winds were moving offshore. it was making an error sot of the hydro carbons it was moving on shore way ahead of the street and making people very very sick given the headaches and pressures burning eyes and just disrupting life all along the coastal areas.

this is the last thing we need we've got a hurricane season approaching this is the tommy year when you know we've got a lot of birds breeding out on the baryons and in the weight bands the fish will all be another marine all via saudi entry into the by an ace trees most marine organisms when they come into an oil slick the instincts don't tell them how to react because it's not a natural phenomenon of folding. it's just going to live out these coastal communities as we know it because they will not be a mechanism for them to earn a living on the natural resources and we see. we really believed that there were not failsafe measures in place on those rigs that ecological disaster of this size could happen. this is something totally

different this is something that they can't control they don't know how to control it it's just heartbreaking in a fury that our legislators lacks the rules and allowed them to do this when they didn't have the technology to take care of it as something like this happens. what they've done here is wiped out these coastal communities and put us all out of business in the rain as the charter captains the commercial fisherman nobody can do anything nobody can go to work they're angry and they're scared. everybody is like shell shocked and nobody knows what to do how do you recover everything that you've lost. all of the oil industry is completely drops the state committees like natural resources you know

legislature headed up by exxon executives and people like that it's the oil industry ultimately choose the ruling elites who run the e.c.m. . it's one of the costs of oil that's never figured into the price of oil which is why gasoline so cheap because we don't put all the call sandwiches bannock amounts certainly is bad environmentally. b.p.s. it falls tolls fall and so shouldn't because it's a quote mint that failed but we americans shit a fair amount of the blame. most of us on the nile about the whole energy situation the reason they are they getting the oil is we demanded and they can still make money on. b.p. oil on a river of us is not going to go drill in one mile deep water if they all make

money. but they can make money because all energy policy. they're gonna keep drilling and it's gonna happen again the industry is going to change the federally this is my i love song they're going to be fools not to but pollution is pretty powerful i'm sure they're up there lobbying in the halls of legislature in the halls of the agency every day every hour. we all give up very tenacious we love where we live and we think where we live here it's our duty to protect our environment protect our communities and so i'm just so sorry that i live to see this. this should be a giant wake up call for all of us were addicted to oil.

i saw somebody yesterday i go into a stall and i was driving a big huge issue v f in the b five parts just today they left a car running small i went into the stall there when the still probably fifteen to twenty minutes and the reason being says they call with syria wouldn't care. but as long as we have that sort of attitude we're going to have to go offshore to foreign oil and we're going to have more of these sorts of accidents. one of our former governor was killed louisiana oil was being sold to she says the rest of the nation his idea was well we'll shut down the power lines and. his slogan was licked i'm freezing the dog and it's still something like that half square with the u.s. has to freeze in the dark i don't see a change in our energy policy in a full no real change in the desire to go deeper in the oil.

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