minton bridge will be rebuilt and reopened by march, and upriver an agreement on a new bridge from utica to louisville will be in place, cementing indiana's place at the forefront of the public/private partnership movement. we will build the state's 3,000th mile of bike and hiking trails and reach our goal of a trail within 15 minutes of every hoosier. unknown to most citizens, the air and water of indiana is now the cleanest in living memory. in 2011, every indiana community met all national air quality standards for the first time in the history of the clean air act. [ applause ] last year we wiped out the last of a 550-case backlog of old and, therefore, less strict environmental permits and are now the only state completely current. our goal for 2012 is to maintain this status. and if national limits are lowered yet again, to find a way to meet those standards, too. we'll complete our successful overhaul of what was once america's worst welfare system when in february, the tenth and final region is converted to our reformed public/private system. backlogs have been slashed by 80%. ti

on with rise much remains the shiite majority began campaigning for more rights from the sunni in utica. trying to bring you more of russia close up as we continue to explore the country's far east. we have our oscar regionalize on the chinese border and is russia's main gateway to the pacific it's also a center of coal and wood exports to the heavily populated in fuel hungry asian economies but as our teams tom barton discovered keeping industry alive there doesn't have to be at the expense of tradition. the baro screeching in russia's far east is becoming a growing center for export to the hungry economies in the south china south korea and japan increasing material exports of warden coal are going out to the pacific and south and it's that that we're looking at in my report. this monster called coal stacker is the new face of russia's far east coast it can load over four thousand tons of coal an hour into ships at this rapidly expanding sea terminal this year they exported ten million tons of the stuff almost exclusively south asian markets which was the board we've noticed there's a

happen as drilling perks up in ohio they're going to be tens of thousands of gas wells in marcellus and utica and ohio too so there's a limited number of places to put the waste and that's the problem that's amazing how are other countries regulating or treating fracking. fracking has been going on for a long time what we're really talking about here is a certain form of cracking it's necessary to produce gas from shale formations in producing gas and shell formations in the relatively new process then here in the u.s. it's now being picked up in a couple of countries abroad in some countries it's currently under moratorium. grants for example south africa. there are many places where it's under moratorium temporarily for example. so different entities different countries different provinces and different countries are treating the issue in different ways because many of them are concerned that a proper science hasn't been done especially with regards to waste disposal well it seems like we've just leapt into a technology without considering the long term consequences not unlike the nuclear e

. >> reporter: underneath this rural farmland lies the highest energy resource right now, utica shaleit's what's everyone is talking about. >> the ripple effect of the utica development is really pretty incredible. >> in december of 2008 going into 2009, i lost my job, so i was totally devastated. >> these are the kind of manufacturing jobs that states are drooling over right now. i think the average compensation for the hourly folks are somewhere between 40 and $50 fully loaded. >> reporter: the question is, is this going to be america's next boomtown? it's a hot topic in youngstown, ohio where a well for fracing wastewater is believed by scientists to have triggered 11 earthquakes since mid-march. >> i've never had an earthquake in my whole life. never even heard of one around here. >> reporter: many are also worried about the possibility of pollution from chemically treated water used to break up rock and free trapped gas, but the industry says it can be done safely. youngstown's mayor has been hearing about it all around town. y >> yes, we need jobs, yes, we need good-paying jobs,

we are very close to the marcellus and utica shales.erything works out like we would like it to, it would be late 2016 or early '17. >> they're in the out years, right? i know that given your balance sheet and what you're able to do unlike the other companies trying to do it, you actually can get this thing going and make a ton of money for people. >> we can do well. if we do it right, we can do well. natural gas is so low. is there a time that you've got to go back and just go and make long-term contracts with natural gas companies that are hurting for capital right now? >> that's something that we're looking at for -- we produce a lot of power through natural gas as the fuel, and we're getting ready to build a very large plant that will burn 250 decatherms a day. that's a lot of gas. gas low now. i don't believe it will stay this low for an extended period of time. so you've got to look at the volatility of the fuel mix for your customers. so hedging makes sense. >> speaking of hedging, tom, i look at this election and i've got to bri

especially, why should people watching us far away in portland maine, utica new york, why should theycare? >> really, this book talks about the differences today and when i started. when i started, the newspaper was controlled by families. not all were angels by any means. but they really had a public service mantra and basically no one could ever have put it better than my cools who is a leading member of the family that on the first newspaper he worked for, that domain registered. the only thing the newspaper really has to worry about is that the public respects it. if the public respects it, you will have readers. and if you have readers, you will have advertisers and that is the main source of income and revenue for news papers. so you really have to be respect to by the public to be in a successful business. around the 1960s and 70s, that sort of got turned on its head when the families wanted to get out of the business and started selling off their newspapers. a lot of times they sold them to people of corporations owned by stockholders and the people who are nice corporations h

of them flee to canada, and my favorite, garrett smith, checks himself into the lunatic asylum in utica new york, to avoid prosecution. [laughter] so i thought these are the kind of characters, tortured islists, that my wife loves to write about, but i'm a little more drawn to action figures, i don't know why, and it kind of drew me back to brown. and i guess, also, while a lot has been written about brown, the raid itself, i think, hadn't gotten it full -- this is a really thrilling, sweaty, tense event, and i wanted to see if i could tell that in all its, all it drama and also these characters i've been talking about. yeah. >> did you talk about frederick douglass and how he changed his support of brown's raid? >> yeah. the question's about frederick douglass and how he changes his support of brown's raid. and he's threaded through the book. he's a major figure in the book. some of the problem with frederick douglass, he's such a great orator and writer that when you go to quote him, you just want to quote the whole speech. it's hard to pull out a quote because he's really one of our