god installed the trial the wall the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast or not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why then you're prepared or you're not ok they obviously weren't prepared because they were prepared they could have actually responded to the b.p. spill contained it where was the equipment and that's the entire industry that was it just they were supposed to have eventually respond that's said it didn't exist it just didn't exist they lied it was. the response group who put together these bill response plans the same spill response plan that

b.p. use is used by shell exxon and chevron and it talks about walrus is in the gulf of mexico now we don't have walrus is in the gulf of mexico the scenarios that they were planning for were not even close to what happened in real time at the deepwater horizon we went down to the water to see what we could find. just in the sand was thick black oil that had been covered. it stretched from miles in each direction this is like a tar like as faults like a liquid as faults. in nearby orange beach and dolphin island alabama machines piled the oil into the sand while people swam in the water. we were approached by a representative from b.p. has there been any on ellen explaining. no no nothing more that would you say are let's talk about tar ball because. largely been tarball we have no moon deployed

throughout the hurriya but we are pulling a lot of that boom off because there simply is no surface oil. we have had as many as nine hundred people claim to be to pick up the beach every day and sometimes at night. b.p. and its contractors were hard at work making sure it looked like nothing had ever happened. local residents were getting fed up demonstrators believe the tragedy in the gulf now more than ever bolsters what they believe along. the. only way to get around the roadblocks was just to avoid the road completely ac cooper a local fisherman agreed to take us out into the gulf ninety percent of this delay so we got a concern most of. the stuff you just the whole life we were advised to wear masks because the air was thick with the smell of oil and the chemicals used to break it

up our captain took a more fatalistic attitude toward wearing protective gear he felt the damage was already done. in memory of the fishing grounds that had been reopened showed signs of visible oil. swimming in the middle one patrick oil was a dolphin. we tried to track it but once again we were stopped by the authorities and told to turn back. this is jeff goodell a new york times celebrated author writing an article for rolling stone he spent months in the gulf interviewing people and investigating the oil spill you know i've been looking out at this day and it sort of looked normal to him there wasn't like there was oil slick floating out there we noticed that some of the dolphins and they came up with coffee and i asked the dolphin expert is that dolphin coughing or by the. maginnis and he said no that's that's

a coffee said dolphins often react this way to stress. sort of a heart wrenching moment where i really understood the real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds. they're serving our shrimp in washington d.c. . they're still serving gov safer than all over the country. without. any one of the cleanup crews would need a while. on the most wanted time in the morning in the milestone coming up a little so now those will not be mine. in the aftermath of fuel catastrophe in the gulf the line between truth and fiction blurred so easily. everyone wanted the oil to be gone and that was certainly

evidence to suggest that it wants. this is professor ed overton from louisiana state university like many of the science departments of state universities in the gulf coast after the deepwater horizon disaster his department quickly received a large grant from b.p. there's always going away it's such an incredible to believe the bacteria that are out there the billions and billions of these hydro and utilizing bacteria looking for somebody they're rapidly degrading the residual all it's out there orbit that seventy five percent is gone right now it's gets rapidly go and if we're going to talk about it over ten when you talk about how he was talking one way right when the oil disaster happens this is not louisiana sweet crude to very dark crude it's going to be harder to clean up and have other other ramifications and then all the sudden the department he works under for ls you gets a ten million dollar research grant from b p. now all of

a sudden it turns into the nicest louisiana sweet crude ever now all the sudden the microbes are just going to eat it all up joining me as well as you environmental scientist as over to over to after dr overton got his grant he went on the media to ultimately this all will get converted by natural bacteria back to call the dark side where it came from initially you say this is about all that's making it stay with this little a bottle of full of stuff that that's all that it does seem that bad honestly apart gropes will drive through a degraded i think our environment is going through a come out relatively easily unscathed i mean it doesn't take a genius to see what's happening here people are being paid off or they're being threatened. on july fifteenth two thousand and ten heads tour ended with good news b.p.'s contractors had stopped the undersea oil gusher with a temporary plug. but there was at least one person who felt the oil hadn't gone away. this is matthew simmons the founder of simmons and company the largest oil

investment firm in america in the late ninety's simmons discovered that saudi arabia was lying about their oil reserves the realization that the largest oil fields on earth were soon to decline changed his life he became an advocate of wave energy invested into its development she wrote a book about the coming and middle eastern oil. as the drama of the deepwater horizon played out matthew spoke up and what he said was shocking yes we were. just large research this. was the most specific information we know eleven hundred meters below the surface is not the next is the four hundred four hundred meter lake i'm very. pleased. on august fourth

the white house sent a time out an energy of size or carol browner on a series of t.v. interviews where she countered simmonds assertions more than three quarters of the oil is gone the vast majority of the oil is gone it was captured it was standing it was burned it was contained but mother nature did her part there was certainly an effort to control the way this event was seen in this event was a media story it had that quality to it of every night the drama who did it and you know when's it going to get capped there is this soap opera quality to it that happened on this day soon the wealth of the and then here we go we're going to each day each day come back tomorrow night and see more birds and we're going to go look for poor suffering sea turtles and then the next night we're going to go meet the guys who were working on the rig and then you had an ending oh it got capped oh good the story is over we can all go home now who's going to stick around to see

what the real consequences of this were. apart from a handful of bloggers and activists the major media networks left the gulf coast. but something wasn't adding up five days after carol browner was on the today show matthew simmons was found dead in his hot up. according to the autopsy the cause of death was drowning. symons death might have been just a freak accident the timing of events a coincidence. in one thousand nine hundred nine the exxon valdez oil tanker carrying fifty three million gallons of crude oil ran aground in prince william sound spilling oil into christine alaskan waters. exxon developed its own proprietary chemical compound to disperse the oil. they

called it corrects it corrects it contain another chemical capable of breaking apart the oil into small droplets that would sink below the sand and water that chemical was to talk c f and a known side effect to become a coal was damage to red blood cells. left local residents were left with albie choose fisheries and long term health problems. for the next twenty years dr riki on track that helped of local residents and tested the alaskan water and soil during the time the lease were used the dispersants work friday. which leaves no classic rain gear to solve the plastic raise your right hand eagles good bird rashes blood here it is good to hear it was simply not true this day and this is just one of the ones who used to disperse.

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