and it was david lawrence who was put in charge of that. s gearing up to start drilling in the arctic, mr. lawrence gave an interview to dow jones, in which he predicted drilling in the arctic would be, quote, relatively easy. that turned out to be relatively wrong. after getting the permits to start drilling, shell just made a hash of it. these are the two rigs they sent up there to start drilling. the one on of the left is called the "discoverer", the one on the right called the "kulic." last summer, the discoverer ran aground. four months after that, it had a fire break out in its engine room. then the u.s. coast guard found more than a dozen violations involving the rig's safety and pollution equipment. for example, the main engine pistons cooling water was contaminated with sludge and oil. the crew was skimming off the oil with a ladle in a bucket. that's nice. safety violations led the coast guard to essentially detain that rig in port. and then they referred it to the justice department to see if shell was guilty of criminal violation

. >>> america, meet david lawrence.een a high-level executive for the shell oil corporation for 29 long glorious and profitable years. he is the executive vice president of exploration and commercial for shell's upstream americas division, which is a fancy way of saying that he drills the americas for shell. last year, shell's drilling operations in the americas got a big boost when the federal government gave shell specifically the okay to start drilling in the arctic. lots of oil companies wanted that, but shell is the one who got the go ahead. and it was david lawrence who was put in charge of that. as shell was gearing up to start drilling in the arctic, mr. lawrence gave an interview to dow jones, in which he predicted drilling in the arctic would be, quote, relatively easy. that turned out to be relatively wrong. after getting the permits to start drilling, shell just made a hash of it. these are the two rigs they sent up there to start drilling. the one on of the left is called the "discoverer", the one on the ri

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lawrence chung, manny flores already spoke i think. dr. eugene [speaker not understood]. jim lazarus, david canego, john grism, [speaker not understood], angie brown, richard [speaker not understood], and pastor jeffery garner. >>> good evening, president chiu, members of the board. thank you so much for this opportunity to speak in support of the much needed cpmc rebuild. my name is michael smith wick. i am aes are department of the western addition district 5. i've been a resident there for 33 years. ~ my, how time flies when you're having fun. i'm also the executive director of my tree compassionate care. my tree is located at the corner of noe and duboce in scott wiener's district and we are a 24-hour residential care facility for san franciscans with advanced aids, all low-income. we've been doing this for 26 years. we've served 1000 san franciscans. most of them lost their life under our care, 24-hour nursing care compassion, no judgments. i want to share that with you that we are seeing a change in san francisco. we are not filling our beds with people who are there to die optimistic