the story of the beaming ins in iran. the group of british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an ocean of oil and they decided they would take and they formed the an anglo persian oil company and made a corrupt deal with the iranian monarchy. they guaranteed itself all iran's oil. shortly after that the british government bought fifty one percent of the company and of the suggestion of winston churchill the british navy switched from coal to oil the worship of the projected british power all of the world were now running

one hundred percent oil wrong. and that in one thousand fifteen to go ronnie and decided to take their oil. the democratically elected government of prime minister mohammad most and nationalize the anglo iranian oil company. he banished all the british diplomats and along with them the secret agents who were plotting his overthrow so prime minister churchill asked president eisenhower to overthrow most and act on their behalf the cia and the british helped stage the coup that ended the last democratic government in iran ever. after most of that was overthrown he was sentenced to three years in the president and house arrest for life. after the cia deposed most at a place mohammad raise ashot power the shah ruled for twenty five years with increasing pressure until finally swooped provoked them eight hundred seventy nine

islamic revolution. with fundamentalist clerics now in power the company that would eventually be known as b.p. was forced to look elsewhere for their own. oil. for all the product of our environment. i grew up in a place believe yeah. this is one for dances to a different to. louisiana's in my blood feud shaped who i am. a lot of people i grew up with became fishermen or musicians or oil workers. or

chefs. i became the family. my family has deep roots in the easy and. the do praise the daily bars in the show bands all immigrated from france and settled in this region over a hundred years ago. and when oil was discovered we leased our land to the oil companies. the oil companies supplied the jobs and the money. and we all went along for the ride. in the gulf of mexico fifteen a coastal state an accident heard all these by. the rig

known as the deepwater horizon was drilling in over a mile of water and over three miles. on april twentieth two thousand and ten approximately nine forty five pm. methane gas from the well ignited. eleven workers were never found. the deepwater horizon sank on the morning of april twenty second birthday. shortly thereafter the u.s. coast guard began to observe an oil slick spreading from where the rig once stood the well as blasting full force into the dollar and a leak when there's already married well known plates are not there for eighty seven days that oil would flow without pause leaving the u.s. government the oil industry and the world scrambling for solutions or to steal told the truth is we don't know when that's going to start doing everything we can

finally on july fifteenth the well was capped and the oil stops flowing and the world turned its attention elsewhere but the story wasn't over it was a bigger story. southern united states is sort of the rehearsal for us imperialism. the first twenty years the world companies had in the twentieth century in the easy and there was no tax on what they're appropriating from we see how the sociologists call the internal phone deal is we're kind of a colony of the united states or a colony where you can get oil and gas you take all the resources but you really don't ever correct the problems of government in the current state as the demand for oil growth the oil companies grew in power the first ran the wheezy and there was nobody could stand up to them. until

a larger than life character came along. he called. the confession managing. or you beat and you have yet. been cured he was a populist very much for the little man against big corporations and the exploitation of the state by big corporations but out of that ran the fact that they put the element out there now that. he made his reputation on fighting federal and getting them to pay for things that the state could not afford on its own and we may really have to take root. and not i don't know and the editor i know. the reason why our standard came here is because we had something that they would so he made them pay for his position was that these resources below him to the people of louisiana imam ali.

i met that man i think that the faith in that didn't have it but i'm sure that people say if you're going to do the things that he wanted to do provide better roads provide that ahead. people provide books for poor people if they have money and the people who head them i would want to phone him. create a very polarized political system people into whom. look like robin hood he was taken from the. richest to believe among those who do not have enough when he starts to go after standard oil he ends up becoming the target of impeachment attempts i was elected through mr moody three hundred eighty. and they tried to impeach me not be done quite. so many the upper class went on the record saying that there's something needs to be done about the plate if you're going to describe . a month after announcing that he would run

for president long was shot in the louisiana state house in baton rouge on september eighth one thousand nine hundred thirty five his bodyguards riddled the assassin with thirty bullets huey died two days later at the age of forty two. his last words were don't let me die i've got so much to do. this is we gave them all and paul and after he owns them their old companies which have been treated as adversaries have become the sophisticated allies of the powers that be with the kingfish out of the way the oil companies power and we see anna grew on a beta and they drilled wherever they wanted it's been a symbiotic relationship for about one hundred years where you have two massive

employers the fisheries and big oil and it's really become a part of louisiana's culture mississippi's culture that big oil and needs to happen because it's what keeps the food in people's place. in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight the first offshore oil discovery in the gulf of mexico was the creole field near cameron louisiana they drilled in about twelve feet of water there are more than four thousand production platforms drilling rigs off the louisiana coast it is like a steel forest out there. originally the original run off the coast but as those fields played out they began moving further and further as they develop the technology to parish drilling platforms one of those companies that was aggressively pushing into the deepest and most risky was b.p. . by the one nine hundred sixty s. b.p. developed a reputation for taking on the riskiest ventures. b.p.

massive profits it also warned them the worst safety record in the industry. in one nine hundred sixty seven the tory canyon an oil tanker chartered by b.p. ran aground off the coast of england over one hundred tons of crude oil dumped into the atlantic and onto the beaches of cornwall. and brittany the largest oil spill ever. around the time of the torrey canyon spill a young man joined b.p. as an apprentice he eventually rose through the ranks to leave b.p. his name was john brown brown acquired other or oil companies transforming b.p. into the third largest oil company in the world in response to negative press on b.p.'s poor safety standards brown reprinted the company with an eco friendly logo and renamed the company beyond petroleum he also initiated rapid expansion and drove record profits one of the ways he did this was by ruthlessly cutting costs.

major. backlash. on march twenty third two thousand and five fifteen people died an explosion at b.p.'s texas city refinery one hundred seventy more were injured to save money major upgrades to the one nine hundred thirty four refinery had been postponed. brown pledged to prevent another catastrophe three months later b.p.'s giant new production platform in the gulf of mexico. nearly sank because of a workman's error. then in march two thousand and six a hole in b.p.'s probe a pipeline caused over a quarter of a million gallons of oil leak the worst spill ever on alaska's north slope b.p.'s cost cutting and poor maintenance of the pipelines was responsible. in may two thousand and seven after committing perjury regarding his involvement in

a sex scandal brown was succeeded by a new rising star his name was tony hayward. hayward promised that he would be focused on safety like a laser this is about ice fundamental lack of leadership and management in the area of safety. the deepwater horizon had just completed drilling the deepest well ever in north america b.p. hoped the rig could extract oil record apps in the gulf of mexico but eleven days before the disaster on april ninth drilling mud pressure dropped and the oil well showed signs of a dangerous gas build up. the president's commission on the oil spill would later find that b.p. and its contractors ordered the crude to ignore the rigs warning systems and keep drilling according to the christian science monitor on the day of the explosion a team of engineers who had flown to the rig to run a critical safety test were ordered by b.p.

to skip the test instead. b.p. threw a party aboard the deepwater horizon to celebrate the rigs flawless safety record the engineers were air lifted off the rig. twelve hours later. the safety alarms and shut down systems that could have saved lives and possibly altered history had been manually disabled so the rig could drill faster. it's a quick fix for a long time to increasingly intoxicating addiction the u.s. may have avoided a fault but it keeps dragging the world into an ever deeper debt. is it still possible to break this vicious cycle.

to limp the torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred and twenty three days. through two thousand one hundred towns and cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand kilometers. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. a length think torch relay. on our cheat sheet dot com. we see it produces about thirty percent of the seafood the same in study number one in blue priam shrimp and oysters are down so it is a huge industry a multibillion dollar industry. for many of the health and human services the f.d.a. sent a letter to the state of louisiana and

a state of mississippi saying we think it's ok to reopen these fish grounds state officials having someone to pass the buck to the ground or improperly opened open them we have to gain back the market share that we've lost the perception of folks that there could be a problem in the gulf we have to overcome that and we're busy at that every day something goes wrong they can say well we were told we could do it by the f.d.a. our department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug and ministry. what. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached

a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in the trial the wall of 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 are 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 the 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 and contained it where was the equipment and that's the entire industry that was in 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 and 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 think black oil that had been covered. it stretches for miles in each

direction this is like a tar that has faults like liquid as faults. in nearby orange beach and dolphin island alabama machines plowed the oil into the sand while people swam in the water. we were approached by a representative from b.p. has he been any i don't let me explain you. know. how they're nothing more i reset all of this let's talk about tar balls because it's largely been tar balls we have boom deployed throughout the hurriya but we're pulling out a lot of that boom off because there simply is no surface oil. we have had as many as nine hundred people going to be to pick up the beach for 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 believed all along we came down here

to find solutions. for 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've got a concern focus on. yourself 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. everywhere in the fishing grounds that had been reopened showed signs of visible oils not. 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. turnback. 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 an oil slick floating out there we noticed that some of the dolphins and they came up with cough and i asked the dolphin expert is that dolphin coughing or my imagine this and he said no that's it's a coffee said dolphins often react this way to stress. sort of a heart wrenching moment we're 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 on a ship in washington d.c. . they're still serving gulf seafood all over the country. to the.

minute one of the cleanup crews you do while. on the boat one time in the morning the milestone coming up. soon now those will not be mine. in the aftermath of the oil catastrophe in the gulf the line between truth and fiction blurred so easily. everyone wanted the oil to be gone and there was certainly evidence to suggest that it once. this is professor. and i speak 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 at such an incredible speed the bacteria that are out there the billions and billions of these hydro and utilizing bacteria looking for

somebody there rapidly degrading the residual all it's out there orbit seventy five percent is gone right now it's it's 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 the 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 is alice you environmental scientist has over to over to after dr overton got its grant he went on the media to ultimately this all will will get converted by natural bacteria back to call the dockside where it came from initially you say this is about all that's leaking each day with as little a bottle full of stuff that that's all that it does seem that bad honestly i'm microbes will try to degrade it 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 sound. rabia 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.

large research this. was the last. eleven hundred meters below the surface is not the next. four hundred meters late. on august fourth the white house senate climate an energy advisor carol browner on a series of t.v. interviews where she countered simmonds assertions more than three quarters of the oil is gone and the vast majority of the oil is gone it was captured it was standing it was fur and 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 you

know when's it going to get capped there is this soap opera quality to it that happened on this day in the well for 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 more suffering sea turtles and then the next night we're going to go meet the guys who are 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 pristine alaskan waters. exxon developed its own proprietary chemical compound to disperse the oil. they called it correct and correct 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 damaged to red blood cells when that some left local residents were left with oil beaches fisheries and long term health problems. for the next twenty years

dr riki ott track that helped of local residents and tested the alaskan water and soil during the last time the least worst is used the dispersants worst friday. which leaked out caustic regular dissolved the plastic raise your right and eagles good bird rashes blood to your nerves the urine was sickly the worst to this day and the sickest ones are the ones who used to disperse. to music city good leverage sure to mccurry was able to build three hundred most sophisticated robots which on fortunately doesn't do do would. learn about anything mission to teach music creation and why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only.

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