yes gone. to. the after the b.p. spill dr ronn came to louisiana where in bury terry which is forty miles from the gulf and about one hundred fifty miles from the wellhead the oil and dispersants

have come into here yesterday the wind blew really hard these tables got this cloudy gritty glaze on it because that's just what's on the table before we even start the interview. was b.p. about to repeat the same strategy that exxon used with the valve these oil spill this pack of confidential documents were uncovered as part of the toxic. lawsuits that followed with some of the workers who realized that their sicknesses lingered lingered lingered these documents are very incriminating and they show that thousands of workers actually did in fact get sick from exposure to a number of chemicals including to be toxic. axons chief medical advisor dr kind of cool it's a memo to x. on and at the very end here you see the intent we do not need a health hazard a value. ation and should try and avoid it if possible. the health hazard

evaluation is osha and nyasha coming in and saying sorry there's too many sick people here and you spiller are now labile for doing long term medical surveillance how exxon avoided it was by misrepresenting the information as cold simple. facts on managed to successfully hide these documents from the media from the people from the sick workers from the court from the federal health care officials and b.p. is following pretty closely everything that. we were actually flying over the disaster site on sunday april twenty fifth and what we saw when you're out there were two airplanes were flying over and already carpet bombing this bill with this person i started to notice that the planes and helicopters were flying over they were dropping the stuff the spray they were

really secretive about where those planes were coming from and when they were going out they didn't really want which was taken of these planes going down because it looked like spraying in vietnam it was it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there carex it is toxic it's toxic to people it's toxic to the environment what it does is it breaks apart the oil into something called a myself a little oil bubble that's wrapped in this solvent the in the hydrophilic you know lipophilic into them and they form little packages around there or in which suspend see oil in the water column they're called myself these my cells go around and they absorb on to biological tissue they're absorbing on to sand grains they're absorbing onto raindrop particles they're absorbing up into the clouds and they're . raining down as stinging rain on people who then get rashes just like this

person's urge to sign to go through live in sin the oil they go through the lip in the sound they break down the sound wall which is a liquid membrane they take that whale into the sound into the organs more readily so there are delivery system where they go around lying around it south is toxic to every organ system in the body and the mixture of dispersant and whale is much more toxic then either oil alone or dispersant fisherman here have been exposed to this mixture they have literally got ulcerated skin it's not hard to find these people we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported and by default u.s. government can't afford to have it reported the ones who can afford to move have

moved and the ones that can't are just begging for help. this is hugh callistemon he has worked for the p.a. for four decades as the lead researcher on toxics. the whistle on high levels of toxics at the now famous love canal he also blew the whistle on the need to protect nine eleven cleanup workers from exposure to toxic dust and now he's trying to blow the whistle on the toxic dispersants used by b.p. dispersions. and they were used to annul mines the deal. so that it's not as visible to the public in other words they're used for a couple o. oil alone in a body of water will rise to the surface there it's collective all it's containable but instead of actually containing it the. dispersant was used of the eighteen

dispersants on the e.p.a.'s authorized list twelve are more effective on the wheezy and a sweet crude than correct b.p. chose to use the only dispersant so toxic that it's banned its own country of england. using corps which we're told has been banned in great britain for the last ten years while toxic human beings on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved feed p.t. use carex at under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of carets of a day into the coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robotic arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that it never did for. four days later the e.p.a.

issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. was a set up to protect d.p. . and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of this persons who need p.a. says you got it could back seventy five percent. and so the people back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native holds a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals. because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the

decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released and why the head of the fisa if you say i would choose either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleaning up forget about the natural resource to average just for releasing that oil just for releasing oil. tins of billions of dollars of foreign well if you can buy. how much oil is released they will get those penalties down from twenty five

billion to maybe one or two billion billion dollars here a billion dollars there you talk to real movie. the company that makes correct it now coke is a joint venture with exxon mobil but received over twenty four million dollars in u.s. government contracts over the past decade. now co-chairs directors with b.p. and exxon mobil. according to its own web site now co has some pretty influential fans so from here to here this is the scope the distance about five hundred miles. west detroit problems central nervous system problems the headaches the dizziness and nausea and the skin problems that intense rashes there are hundreds of thousands of people who are dosed with high amounts of toxic material the more risk of having severe health effects often we're told don't.

worry honey we'll take care of you and it won't hurt we'll we didn't find out that a very good product what we thought was a good product turns out to have vial consequences i don't want dispersants to be the agent. this will still. be calling to cool it accept the current chemical dispersant is the best to come out at night to talk about it with these cards are coming from. good bad damage. done to her good. looks and you're saying here today that b.p. had known as a species. of them somewhere to suppose it always had some corruption but i mean i

never thought it was that this has anyone been thinking inside because of this incident mood solution maybe just think if they throw enough money to good old american pows it looks like success will lead to a movie thinking of plucky american people that you think you can get away with but i think this is a toxic waste kind of brother sister. after even more scrutiny surrounding b.p.'s continued use of correct said b.p. quietly announced in july they had stopped spraying dispersant oil was gone and so were the dead animals. to verify this we interviewed keith seal an b.p.'s incident commander but b.p. denied permission to use this interview. three months later in september

we snuck onto beaches where b.p. was working to find the truth or selves. at night the oil was clearly visible beaches or some young fish as you can see there climbed up into a clump of well dead wildlife was also prevalent now risking ourselves by turning these only the lights on. to tell that something's in the air and we'll have a. respirators on the. t.v. station is just right across this cut. despite the piece claims they had stopped spraying our cameras caught the still transporting and spray dispersants. we should already have been killed if you're a great man. straight ahead right now. can't

think of a place like louisiana as the state it is an oil it is only controlled by the oil industry. i ran one of the regulatory agencies as a result of the environmental quality agency the oil and gas industry lobbyists run our halls every day i mean they're talking to people in the. agency that might have some say over how they would regulate oil and gas the same time they're making campaign contributions in every election that comes along when the time comes for a vote i've seen the oil and gas industry for example kill environmental bills just by putting the. mission. critical should treat in store charges free. range mentioned three risk free studio types

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happens on a larger scale in washington. comes from texas and. louisiana the political structure is the economic structure of those states are so done by well wishers where the number one issues. one thing that is unique about louisiana's were tiny state politically we have single digits in terms of electoral votes but we have an incredible influence on on the national political scene the senate is the most mouat fortune body in the world you have two senators from each state you have two senators from louisiana and two senators from california to california if it was a nation would be the seventh largest nation in the world in louisiana is not close

to that. the senate say only legislative assembly in the world that has a super majority to get things done they need sixty votes to get things done so it only takes a few senators to stop the initiative of the house of representatives. the senate has the power to veto any bill created in the house up to one hundred eleven energy related bills proposed in the last decade. every bill that contained provisions for alternative energy was blocked. the only bills that became law with the five that subsidized fossil fuels and nuclear. another factor that contributes to the lack of regulation by congress is the proverbial revolving door. on a congressional delegation is known as the all delegation are senators with a retard go to work as a lobbyist for walling gas there's a two year cooling off period before you could become

a lobbyist out of the senate senator lott resigned from the senate one month before the end of the session so he didn't have to wait two years he only had to wait one year and then he had a party with john breaux invited all kinds of people to celebrate when the one year was over and now the. a lobbying firm is very successful it will lots of energy clients lots of oil violence little plants gas clients and them a lot of power. since the don't see. your over the oil industry which is enormously don't wish to avoid future go slowly a campaign contribution to that was a very very short law if you present all year if washington d.c. and they've got a number of people on their leash. with only five hundred thirty eight congress members the ratio of lobbyists to congress in d.c.

is almost one hundred to one there's probably one hundred thousand people in the lobbying business in washington d.c. so it's big business after the federal government lobbying is the next biggest business washington d.c. . lobbyists function as the razor to cart off for big industry making sure congress does their bit but big loyal uses a far more aggressive means of tightening up. leash around congress' neck here's the real you're sitting there is a billionaire you make money on bullshit making money maybe your excellent job you should know contribute to some fully fund organization which can then millions and millions of millions of dollars on television ads in two campaigns holding this country what it really is same is that we are giving unbelievable power to him full of people who control the politics and the nature of our democracy.

on a national scale fuel companies have huge power over our government. didn't we throw those oil guys out in the last election. didn't we elect the guy who is going to change things. i believe that americans of every political stripe are desperate they are hungry for a new kind of hope that. most people who are willing to go to go in because they care about what happens there to change something. i will never forget this truly belongs to us. it belongs to you. it belongs to you. brock obama and the most successful campaign ever it was very smart it was very well done it was particularly laid out and it capitalized on the desperation in this country and it was so prevalent i

thought that. to bring about a sensible energy policy the stuff. this past quarter. seasonally. you know a lot of people on the left demonized president bush thought it was all about president bush and if you could just get rid of bush in light movement take over and you don't. the driving around in solar powered cars and life would be beautiful within three or four weeks. old chris hedges it's a form of war correspondent author of nine books and a member of the new york times pulitzer prize winning team a democracy gives expression to the desires and concerns of ordinary citizens whether that's through the press or the labor unions whether the culture. and oligarchy exist and co-ops all of those institutions if you're

a billionaire you can sit down and say ok i'm going to put three hundred thousand dollars into the race in colorado four hundred thousand dollars into mexico half a million dollars into vermont and use for them on it and nobody has to know who i am i can do that with no disclosure whatsoever this is a huge step backwards for the marchese it's a step forward for oligarchy or a handful of extraordinarily wealthy individuals and large corporations have a major major major influence over all political life after the obama administration came in with his big hopes of changing everything getting serious about energy getting serious about global warming in certain ways has been as disappointing as president bush was. there's a great deal of in tipis the distrust even anger toward liberals and i don't think it's misplaced it was the democratic party under bill clinton that deregulated the

banking system allowed our commercial banks to become hedge funds and precipitated the meltdown that we are now undergoing. this was done consciously bill clinton understood that if he did corporate bidding he would get over money can buy the one nine hundred ninety s. the democratic party late ninety's and fund raising parity with the republican party and by the time barack obama ran for president they got more. when having. the american people been as betrayed investing so much hope energy money in barack obama's campaign. today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas exploration. medaling take responsibility for solving this crisis and the president and the buck stops with me. obama flies down to florida jumps in the water briefly with his daughter

for the photo op and from that point on most of the media has left beaches all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business that's one of the reasons michele saussure and i are here. in reality neither he nor his daughter touched the water of the gulf they swam at st andrews bay a protected area. what happened with safety regulations in the gulf of mexico in the wake of the b.p. disaster rename a couple of agencies change a couple of faces business as usual full steam ahead what does that tell you. the administration that it promised us change made no alteration to be antiquated spill response plan it still cites wall versus the most threatened species in the gulf of mexico and it still lists deceased people as the contacts and policemen emergency. obama might have had a good reason to tread carefully when he dealt the spill the largest oil consumer

in the world as the u.s. department of defense and guess which company is the pentagon single largest supplier of fuel to b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the us war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil. during the last ten years b.p. has been the single largest energy contractor. to the various branches of the us military receiving over seventeen billion dollars in direct contracts for jet and diesel fuel oil is true and b.p. in particular is crucial to the military intelligence and diplomatic complex. on june sixteenth two thousand and ten obama called a meeting at the white house with b.p.'s c.e.o. tony hayward gets managing director bob dudley and its chairman of the board carl hendricks bamberg the us government took no action against b.p.

or its executives instead it agreed that b.p. would simply create the claims fine for victims of the oil spill the people of the goals have my commitment that b.p. will meet its obligations to the. b.p. as probably pledged to make good on the claims that it owns to the people in the gulf i hear coleman sometimes love large oil companies are greedy companies or don't. think lazy weak above the small to the. last. laugh. for days after his meeting with president obama tony hayward was enjoying a yacht race in england. instead of being fired in the wake of the gulf oil spill hayward was sent to run b.p.'s operations in russia and it was back to business as

usual you can throw out tony hayward and they'll just call another one out of their frankenstein machine with a different hairdo and a different name they all operate they say you got to get the oil out the cheapest way is the filthiest dangerous way in the most corrupt way. that's what makes these guys rich. by january of two. eleven the obama administration announced it would start issuing permits for new drilling operations in the gulf of mexico why you may wonder big oil is paying the federal government a percentage of walty that comes out of each barrel that comes out of the ground it's enormous amount of money. behind the i.r.s. the collection of offshore oil field revenues and royalties is the second largest generator of money for the united states government. the first new permit issued by the obama administration was for

a while in the gulf of mexico operated in partnership with b.p. . these planes are cool less. battle in charge of being responsible for the. assume we're searching for the. past me of that of them possible i'll tell you there is the moon is a proud open for nasa is a pursuit. of this stuff. to see.

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