what about the big picture i'm tom harben coming up in this half hour a county in new mexico has become the first county in the united states to outlaw gas and oil extraction why did that county choose to fight back against big oil and are more communities across the country planning to do the same thing and bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world and some workers are among the most it's lloyd in the world but despite its poverty in third world conditions bangladesh still has more of a backbone or moral compass than the united states at least when it comes to corporate criminals i'll tell you why and i'd still take.

it as the rest of the news despite its wide wide range of environmental and health consequences the practice of fracking or extracting natural gas from shale rock beds is on the rise across the country and because of this growth in fracking the oil and gas industries and even the mainstream corporate media haven't been shy about saying how much our nation could benefit from this natural gas production boom even president obama noted in his state of the union speech that the production natural gas of the united states has never been higher than it is today . but while the actual gas production a less than desirable means may be off the charts right now in the us what about the production of other forms of energy particular from cleaner and greener sources joining me now to talk more about this is jay warm keep environmentalist environmental journalist and contributor to eco watch and the author of the book when the biomass hits the when turbot if we got ourselves into this mess and how we are going to get out of it jay welcome well thank you thank you so how big is the

fracking boom well you know it's funny that they refer to it constantly as the bloom because actually if you go back to one thousand nine hundred seventy one the increase in natural gas production since that it's only up about fifteen percent over the past thirty years or so then why are the prices down so much and why are so many of these plants changing over from coal to natural gas well it's funny on the inside there in the industry told me once that natural gas prices are can be controlled by three things and that's fear greed and the weather and actually i think they're a victim of their own marketing in that when you tell everybody there's a glut when you tell everybody there's a boom and you put then on top of a recession a worldwide recession you're going to have declining prices it's really you don't want to economics one hundred one has the production of renewable sources of energy

over the past few decades growing had an impact on those. it has and it will i think the impact is more magic in the future what we're looking at is the natural gas industry is kind of a dysfunctional industry at its soul but they look at boom and bust cycles as part of their normal operations so in two thousand and eight the price of natural gas was about three times what it is today and they've seen that cycle going up to twelve dollars or so fifteen dollars a thousand cubic feet down to three or four and it's been hovering now at about three or four dollars per thousand cubic feet the problem they're going to be facing is that in this last cycle renewables have changed the entire playing field and the price of renewable energy has been dropping about thirty percent each year for the past four years so when they're coming back into this marketplace it's a completely different marketplace for them to be profitable now but two of the

things that i've heard are our big influences on what we pay for gasoline at the pump are won the enormous amount of speculation that's done by people who are actual katar parties are not actually producers or consumers of gasoline but they're simply speculating and but but two that last year the large the single largest export product of the united states was refined petroleum products diesel and gasoline and by exporting so much gasoline the oil companies the united states have been able to keep the. availability down in the price up of the united states is there anything like that going on or contemplated with natural gas i know that there are some cities that are talking about put in natural gas export terminal zone things like that and that has something to do it well that's one of the things you'll always get when you talk to a natural gas person you say all right it costs between for

a new well it costs about eight dollars per thousand cubic feet. or to produce that natural gas hydraulically fractured wells are more expensive about two dollars more per well on average so it's costing them about ten dollars to do so the gas that they're selling for three and a half or four dollars so you say all right we're losing money on every sale but let's make it up in volume so they say we're going to export but exports have always been you know less than a quarter of a percent of the marketplace and actually in the last year exports of natural gas have declined you know liquid natural gas yeah yeah so where is where is the industry going with all of this and also i'm curious how is that actual gas fracking industry the fracking part of the natural gas industry how are they dealing with the enormous amounts of water necessary to do this and the toxic

wastes that they're producing. well there are two different do you know situations there in your question one is where are they going they're in free fall they are losing their shirts in fact chesapeake the largest in this industry and fracturing has been spinning off assets trying to cover a huge debt i was just looking at their finances they owe fourteen billion dollars and have assets of about thirteen billion this is not the result of acquisition. no no this is the result of simply the fact that they paid too much for leases and they're in a freefall situation where the price of the commodity they are selling is less than the cost of their production remote so they're hoping for the prices to increase but it's simply not taking place so from an economic standpoint. fracturing is doomed hydraulic fracturing is doomed because if it is to become profitable it will have to become the most expensive energy option out there wind has already

surpassed that solar has already surpassed it at the retail level so in order for it to be productive profitable for these companies they have to convince people to pay a premium over renewable energy for their products and i just don't see that happening remarkable jay warm keith thanks so much for joining me. thank you for talking. yesterday morakot he new mexico became the first county in the united states to pass an ordinance a law banning all and gas extraction within that county morricone community water rights and local self governance ordinance that's the title of it creates a local bill of rights essentially that includes things like a right to full air and a right to clean water and a right to a healthy environment seems like a relatively reasonable thing so. you would in fact you would think that you

know these are basic human rights ok joining me now for more on this important of all in the fight over for community rights over corporate rights is thomas lindsay's attorney and executive director of the community environmental legal defense fund cell that c.l. the org the web site thomas welcome back to the program yes thanks for having us back to why did the residents of moore a county want to take this step well it's been a two year battle and more county which is one of the poor. counties in the nation county of about five thousand people and they took the steps because they understand that fracking and other kinds of oil and gas extraction basically threatens their livelihood as an agricultural county and threatens their water as well and so they took the extraordinary step of permanently banning oil and gas extraction within the county. what is any any indication what the response of the oil and gas industry is going to be i mean is there a lot of oil and gas there that these guys water which is more symbolic this is not

so much well it's been a oil and gas company making noise there for the past three years and in fact have threatened the county officials there with the action of the county didn't back off so we expect a lawsuit some point and get the point of that maneuver the point of the action of passing the ordinance is that if more county does it then other counties across the mexico will do it and eventually that old force its way up to make some kind of constitutional change in the state so it's more of a revolt of sorts by folks who are unwilling to live with the law as the now in this in the set up we talked about how they had asserted that clean air and clean water clean environment we're actually right is that the basis of this as opposed to corporations having the right to do whatever they want that pollute at what point does one's on the other begin there or do they act you know what's hot how

does this all work. you know a town about one hundred fifty communities across a state that worked with us to adopt local ordinances and those local ordinances adopt local bills of rights just like the u.s. constitution of the bill of rights that constitution bill of rights this is about municipalities adopting local bills of rights that include include things like clean air and clean water but also things like a right to a sustainable energy future that doesn't use fossil fuels. to pass to write the climate which means they have a right to a natural climate an armed iran altered by fossil fuel emissions and so this is brand new territory in terms of meat it's a palette of the expanding out those rights of the local level but more a county that something even more amazing in. what that line with pittsburgh and these other communities across the country that about similar laws which is they became a corporate rights freeze them which in essence means that not only did they pass

a ban on oil and gas extraction within the county but they also stripped oil and gas companies of certain constitutional legal rights within the county mora which would routinely and traditionally be used against them to try to overturn what they pass within the county is that why you expect this is going to end up before the supreme court or at least a federal appeals court. well we do it's probably going to enter the courts and probably go most of the way but in some ways it doesn't matter just like the gay marriage folks know just like the marijuana legalization folks know that sometimes you can't make change by going to the institutions that created the problems in the first place and then you have to push from the bottom up and that's exactly what we see happening in more as well as some of these other counties yeah and how many other communities around the country are considering or working on this sort of thing right now through your it is a should sell that probably about double the number that have to date so we have about one hundred fifty even a spell of these in eight states i think it's the beginnings of what some people of

coined a new civil rights movement which is based on community rights to decide what happens over the next ten twenty or forty meter today and the fact that corporations like oil and gas companies today have more rights than the communities in which they do business and this is an effort in some ways communities collectively sitting at the lunch counter exercise and collective civil disobedience to say we're not going to live under that law anymore that guarantees that we're going to be fracking or that we're going to be drilled or we're going to be dumped on and if they're saying no more we're going to refuse to comply refuse to obey existing law because we believe it's illegitimate and that's the beginning of a real movement i think this country really has here one of the genuine leaders of it and thomas lindsey thank you so much and for more information go to solve. a large thomas thank you thank you for having us. coming up last wednesday a devastating factory collapse in bangladesh killed over three hundred people and injured thousands more today that building owner is in jail as assets have been

frozen he's facing seven years in prison for negligent actions but that would never happen here in america we'll tell you why and what you can do about it in tonight's do it. let me let me i want to know why don't you let me ask you a question. here on this network is what we're having the debate we have our knives out of. the view this time it was just a bad thing there again you're in a situation where b. and i don't want to talk about the surveillance we.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. isn't talking about is the story doesn't make it news. no puff pieces i mean tough question thank you. i think the worst you are going to be a lonely white house or the. radio guy or a minister of a click. on what. we're about to do because you've never seen anything like this i'm told.

it's the good the bad in the very very. quickly a good lawyer be the good the angry bostonian in the wake of the boston marathon bombings in four wars as alex jones started spreading his usual conspiracy theories calling the april fifteenth attacks an f.b.i. orchestrated false flag operation and warning is listeners that president obama would use the tragedy as an excuse to confiscate their guns understandably outraged bostonians have taken jones and his followers to task for us first press conference after the body as jesus governor deval patrick responded to it in full wars reporter's question about whether the attacks were staged where there is no

governor patrick's response was satisfied but nothing tops the reaction of the bostonian shown confronting in four wars journalists in the following video take a look. behind the bombing and that's what you're here to cover and that's why i'm the guy we're not because the f.b.i. blew up those people at the boston marathon you know that's right good fortune just because you don't probably read what you serious dangerous and people like you should be able to drive a car much less expose your opinions in public but we have a first amendment to protect it. and so is alan jones thank you for your welcome and that's the nicest thing i can say about you you son of a. it's just so hostile tom brady better watch out because i think boston has found its newest hero the bad thomas friedman in a saturday editorial ironically titled judgment not included friedman asking muslims to explain why such

a critical number of their community is attracted to terrorism he wrote we must ask a question only muslims can answer what is going on in your community that a critical number of your youth believes that every american military action in the middle east is intolerable and justifies a violent response everything muslim extremists do with other muslims is ignore able and calls for mostly silence. here's a question only you can answer to. did you ever ask white americans you know like the people who shot up the sikh temple bombed abortion clinics attacked the whole across museum bombed the. olympics to be responsible for the actions of just a few crazies by the way if any of you new york times readers out there is confused as to why the guy who's written such wonderful pieces of the power of green technology is over the past few years suddenly attacking muslims. just take a look at this clip from two thousand. saw on this. that

charlie was what this war was about we could hit saudi arabia. it was part of the bubble could hit pakistan we hit iraq because we. some bad habits just never die and the very very ugly rush limbaugh. on monday's episode of his talk radio show the conservative pundit offered this compelling commentary on the dangers of liberalism. i am in the midst of a david e. mail from people who say rush you're not you're not thinking. when you say that liberalism doesn't kill people it missed numbers you're not thinking. and i have to say they have a point of. liberalism kills people in vast numbers didn't you rush support that whole iraq war thing that killed a couple hundred thousand people the fact that this man is the voice of modern

conservatism is just very very. crazy alert whether woman elisa head all girl gave quite a performance during a recent report for k m g h t.v. and the main camera shifted his focus to the grounds. that of a green screen behind her that all rove wiped her producers quad's away with the impromptu tap dance routine. so pretty good dose of snow in winter park look at this beautiful shot this afternoon you can watch yeah yeah yeah yeah get yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. yeah it's got to be kind of cool today temps in the thirty five to maybe we should see some clearing skies are a good one. well quite a rain dance you got there lisa great job of making the it's of

a bad situation and you can give rookie newscaster a.j. clemente some tips he struggled a bit on his first day last week take a look in b.c. north dakota news your news reader in high definition. good evening i'm dan q you may have seen our newest a.j. and the north dakota news and hell be joining the weekend news same as my co-anchor tell us a little bit about yourself a.j. . thanks van i'm very excited i graduated from west machine to receive and i'm used to you know from being from the east coast. welcome aboard. earlier today a panel from bangladesh's high court ordered the bangladeshi government to

immediately seize the property of the owner of that factory building that collapsed last week killing hundreds and injuring thousands more the eight story ronna plaza collapsed last wednesday morning trapping thousands of workers in the five garment factories in the building twenty five hundred survivors have been accounted for so far at least three hundred fifty people have died mohamed so hell ron the building's owner and a local politician was arrested on sunday near the bangladesh border with india. out of town and may face charges of negligence illegal construction and forcing workers to work in unsafe conditions if he is found guilty on all the counts ronna could face up to seven years in prison the court also asked bangladesh's central bank to freeze the assets of the owners of the five garment factories that were operating in that building and use that money to help pay for the salaries and

other benefits of those workers. meanwhile thousands of miles away another community is still coming to terms with another tragic and entirely preventable loss the small town of west texas they're recovering from the devastating fertilizer plant fire and explosion that two weeks ago killed fourteen people and injured two hundred others and many of those who survived the explosion in west have lost their homes and all of their possessions but despite all the devastation and loss of west twelve days after the explosion there been no arrests and as far as we can tell nobody held responsible for the tragedy and even worse thanks to a functional media blackout most people don't even know the name of the fertilizer plants owner or manager. who made the decisions that led to these deaths in texas who lied to or failed to let the e.p.a. and other agencies know that they were violating their rules we have no idea who's

been arrested for these deaths nobody so how is it that bangladesh a third world nation can seize the assets of those responsible for the tragic factory collapse and bring them to court in just five days while here in the united states we're still waiting for someone to be held accountable for the west disaster it may be because bangladesh despite overwhelming poverty understands the fact that misbehaving corporations and people in power must be held accountable for their actions their negligence can't go overlooked but here in the united states it's an entirely different story here in the united states we have basically two different justice systems is one for corporate executives and rich people one for everyone else. here in the united states we hold people like aaron schwartz and bradley manning accountable for their actions but let people like j.p. morgan's jamie dimon and goldman sachs's lloyd blankfein who have cause real damage

to america get off with barely a slap on the wrist just this week j.p. morgan avoided another court case that could have led to criminal charges by paying a small fine schwartz was a political organizer and internet activist he wanted americans have access to a free and open internet as a result of downloading a few academic journals that he intended to make public swartz was facing decades in prison and ultimately took his own life many say for that very reason meanwhile j.p. morgan c.e.o. jamie dimon had been alleged multiple times to have committed criminal actions including criminally withholding information from bank regulators his bank and virtually all the other big banks forged documents politely called robo signing and lied to borrowers and even in some cases to their investors if the little guy did that he'd be in jail for years for fraud but diamond blankfein and the rest of their wall street fat cat buddies they're doing just fine and they continue to rake

in multi-million dollar bonuses your golden parachute retirements back right now of the hundreds of banks is responsible for the two thousand and eight financial collapse are still sitting pretty on wall street every day americans who care about the direction that our country is heading in are being arrested in droves for example hundreds of people showed up in dallas last week to protest the george w. bush presidential so-called library three were arrested that same day thirty two protesters were arrested and sent to jail in syracuse new york after protesting the obama administration's drone program and countless others have been arrested protesting everything from climate change to nuclear weapons to the failure to close guantanamo bay. all of the already across the nation waste their efforts on throwing peaceful protesters in jail those who should really be said unified by nine zero or continuing to live in the lap of luxury this is one of the biggest

problems we face in america today and in a bernie sanders says we've become an oligarchy if anything that's an understatement misbehaving corporations and people in power are allowed to get away with just about anything thanks to court rulings like citizens united and the corrosive and corruptive influence of money in politics and of course that courts doctrine that money is speech our corporations and corporate executives have become functionally untouchable figures in society leaves untouchable by the law and that needs to change over longer can we nation let wall street bankers get away with crashing our economy and civil and simultaneously get away with workers' rights abuses and safety violations that kill american citizens it's an incredible irony when that shining city on the hill has become bankable desh but in this case is

true if bangladesh can hold their corporate fat cats accountable for causing mayhem death and destruction and so can we call your local or national election officials and ask them to stop letting our fertilizer company owners in our banks in our oil companies get away with murder and tell your media outlets to start reporting on corporate crime as of tuesday as tickly as they report on corporate profits. and that's the way it is tonight tuesday april thirtieth two thousand and thirteen for more information check out our website the tell marvin's dot com free speech party dot com and hulu dot com slash the big picture and don't forget democracy begins with you get out there get active tag your.

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