oil field spilled almost a million tons of crude into the landscape there in twenty ten the deepwater horizon rig exploded sparking the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history and doing incalculable damage to livelihoods and the environment finally two years ago a gas compressor station in colorado belonging to b.p. exploded killing one worker and injuring two the track record was of special concern to greenpeace's arctic campaigner who we spoke to he told us that greenland should think twice. it's very important that the green and the government and the greenlandic population is aware that the risks that they're taking would not only happen moments of consequences but also have a spill happens when a simple happens have massive consequences for for example a fish resecting greenland it is just too big a risk to take and the conditions are extremely harsh. like on a collision course almost on the daily basis women can scottish oil company that did the exploration drilling back in two thousand and eleven they had to show what we around two hundred icebergs still a period of just a couple of m

spilled almost a million tons of crude into the landscape there in two thousand and ten the deepwater horizon rig exploded sparking the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history and doing in kalak of all damage to livelihoods and the environment there finally two years ago i guess compressor station in colorado belonging to b.p. exploded killing one worker and injuring coup this track record was of special concern to greenpeace's arctic campaigner who we spoke to he told us that greenland should think twice it's very important that the green and the government and the green and the population is aware that the risks that taken would have been moments of consequences but also have is a spill happens when a spill happens have massive consequences for for example the fish resurfacing greenland it is just too big a wrist so you get the conditions on extremely harsh. light on a collision course almost on a daily basis when we can schedule company the exploration drilling spot in two thousand and eleven they have to chose what we around two hundred icebergs over a period of just a couple of months b

petroleum has been denied any drilling licenses in the united states for more than a year now the deepwater horizon spill taking its toll on the company's reputation but this mattered little to the new government in greenland drilling. and all exploration off the western coast of the country particularly from the bay has already been underway for some time by the likes of shell chevron and exxon mobil but b.p. and its partners will now explore the concession in the north east which amounts to thousands of square kilometers some believe there may be a huge reserve of oil there up to one hundred ten billion barrels potentially the largest in the whole of the arctic the decision of greenland leadership is a complete u. turn from what it said only nine months ago when a moratorium on any further drilling was imposed due to environmental concerns the latest move is understood to be tightly connected with greenland strive for independence from denmark but clearly it's the black gold which could make greenland both economically and politically independent and the government is happy to have more internati

spilled almost a million tons of crude into the landscape there in two thousand and ten the deepwater horizon rig exploded sparking the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history doing incalculable damage to livelihoods and the environment and finally a year later thousands of tons of chemical that a mix of water and oil were spilled when a pipeline berth in another alaskan oil field this track record was of special concern to greenpeace an arctic campaigner who we spoke to and he told us that greenland should think twice it's very important to green only government and the green only population is aware that the risks taken with you have been moments of consequences but also have is a spill happens when a spill happens have massive consequences for for example the fishery state so you agree it is just to be your wrist say the conditions are extremely harsh. like on a collision course almost on a daily basis women can scottish oil company that exploration drilling spot in two thousand and eleven they had to show what we around two hundred icebergs over a period of just a couple of months becaus

employees alaska actually went on the record to speak about deepwater horizon because he says his union protects him from retaliation good they're said quote it would not surprise me that b.p. is not compensating folks when i saw them backing out of their promises in the gulf i said yep welcome to my world listen it would be one thing that this was a struggling mom and pop business failing to compensate their employees and victims of its own gross incompetence and criminal negligence no this is b.p. a multinational money. sorting machine all things considered one would think that bad press would have at least cut into b.p.'s profits by now but i guess the millions of dollars that companies spent on p.r. to control the narrative is why they posted record profits. just in the first quarter of two thousand and thirteen being me piece profit was twenty billion dollars and which they only paid two point eight billion dollars in taxes. but at least the crisis has made them step up their safety standards right actually nine months ago the petroleum safety authority in norway said that the lack

employee and alaska actually went on the record to speak about deepwater horizon because he says his union protects him from retaliation good there said quote it would not surprise me that b.p. is not compensating folks when i saw them backing out of their promises in the gulf i said yep welcome to my world listen it would be one thing that this was a struggling mom and pop business failing to compensate their employees and victims of its own gross incompetence and criminal negligence no this is being. a multinational money hoarding machine all things considered one would think that bad press would have at least cut into b.p.'s profits by now but i guess the millions of dollars that companies spend on p.r. to control the narrative is why they posted record profits. just in the first quarter of two thousand and thirteen being the peace profit was twenty billion dollars and which they only paid two point eight billion dollars in taxes. but at least the crisis has made them step up their safety standards right actually nine months ago the petroleum safety authority in norway said that t

>> ever since the deepwater horizon blew, it was clear that this was a disaster in the making. the fishing industry came to a stop. tourism was wrecked. the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, anyone who was dependent on these waters, were in deep jeopardy. under pressure from the federal government, bp agreed to create a victims compensation fund. both bp and the white house wanted one man, ken feinberg, to administer it. >> i felt that if asked, i should step up and try and help as best i can. >> what is it about ken feinberg that makes him the nation's arbiter of impossible decisions? >> i think there's something that experience brings to the table in terms of getting these problems solved. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. >> this lawyer's experience in mediation, in placing monetary value on human suffering, is unmatched. president obama made him his pay czar, where he cut the salaries of executives of companies that received government bailouts. but it was his role as special master of the 9/11 victims compensation fund that was his greatest challenge and likely his

it needs to be understood by the keep in the country that we have a deepwater horizon occurring with pollinators, and we need to deal with it. >> when you talk about scientists trying to influence evolution, how effective can we really be? >> you can look around you. you see how effective we can be when we artificially inseminate something. we did it with dogs. we are looking at the traits that make successful bees successful and select those and bring them into a muddled population in america. >> worse case scenario all the bees disappear. >> mayby tiny robotic drones. >> i like the robotic bee idea. some researchers at harvard are working on this. environment. >> science is not all like that. you always have to attack fronts. >> speaking of insects you've been doing fun stuff in the amazon. what will we see. >> a trick we played on jaguars, and a neat spider we found. >> we want to hear what you think about the stories. join the conversation. >> your coffee is ready. >> hey, guy, welcome back to "techknow." crystal. >> i know you lead a double life, phil. you are drinking coffee, t

course, watching the risk management in the commodities sector based on what we saw with the deepwater horizonnd the potential impact that something like that, if it were god forbid to happen again, could have on commodities prices. it will be interesting to see the commentary that comes in and what some of the banks have to say about it as well as what some of the industry players and policy makers have to say about this. but it is an interesting development. >> if i may, i found this provocative, too, because we were expecting to see out of the fed some questioning about the so-called complementary authority where banks are allowed to hold physical commodities if it engages their trading business. but this is a much broader set of questions than that. the idea that a bank could be involved in some sort of disaster like this that causes, you know, a potentially soundness risk in terms of the liabilities and the tragedies involved, very interesting. they are obviously thinking about this on a much deeper level than i realized. >> i would agree with you completely, kate, because especially give

they're the best in the industry when it comes to safety but they're the ones who caused the deepwater horizon spill a very not safe accident indeed in the paper's conclusion the researchers state that given leaders' propensity to engage in wrongdoing after they've engaged in c.s.r. boards should be particularly careful after the successful implementation of c s our strategy to ensure that leaders do not become complacent in other words if your c.e.o. has just done something wonderful it's time to keep an eye on or look it's great that corporations are becoming more aware of the fact that their customers would like them to be more socially and environmentally responsible but the truth is these reports are often just stupid marketing tools in fact they're often created by sustainability reporting consultants who said that employees at the corporations often don't even understand what the hell the consultants are talking about the bottom line is if a corporation truly cared about the environment or society in general they wouldn't have to create an acronym to explain all the good they're doing t

are disgusted with how the company has reneged on its pension promises to employees and warns deepwater horizon oil spill victims to expect the same kind of treatment see according to russell's stouffer a former b.p. head of finance for the gulf of mexico the company has cut hundreds of employees pensions by up to seventy five percent from what they were originally promised back in one thousand nine hundred seven.

health disasters in the deepwater horizon oil spill took place in west virginia over three hundred thousand residents were unable to use their tap water after the west virginia american water company admitted that a storage tank of the chemical for meto cycle hexane methanol had leaked into the city of charleston is water supply so you think a story that actually affects hundreds of thousands of americans would garner round the clock coverage from u.s. media this weekend we all know that hollywood celebrities just don't get enough air time. hollywood's biggest names line in the red carpet for the annual golden globe awards caprio got friendly you've got guys walking around with. our love would you think of last night. it was a book hollywood does two things really well water is give out awards to themselves and the other is to throw parties and last night good good both. now to be fair c.n.n. was largely on the case in the beginning but i can't say the same for the other partisan hacks on corporate television thankfully the situation has improved since friday according to west virginia's go

health disasters in the deepwater horizon oil spill took place in west virginia over three hundred thousand residents were unable to use their tap water after the west virginia american water company admitted that a storage tank of the chemical for meto cycle hexane methanol had leaked into the city of charleston is water supply so you think a story that actually affects hundreds of thousands of americans would garner round the clock coverage from u.s. media this weekend we all know that hollywood celebrities just don't get enough air time. it was the biggest names line in the red carpet for the annual golden globe award. you got friendly you've got guys walking around with. only what you think of last night. it was a book hollywood does two things really well was is give out awards the other is to themselves and the other is to throw parties and last night good good both. now to be fair c.n.n. was largely on the case since the beginning but i can't say the same for the other partisan hacks on corporate television thankfully the situation has improved since friday according to west virginia

are disgusted with how the company has reneged on its pension promises to employees and warns deepwater horizon oil spill victims to expect the same kind of treatment see according to russell's stouffer a former b.p. head of finance for the gulf of mexico the company has cut hundreds of employees pensions by up to seventy five percent from what they were originally promised back in one thousand nine hundred seven another former employee kurt wardlaw compared the pensions of two ation to the plight of the gulf oil victims same quote those depending on b.p. to do the right thing in the gulf of mexico should be aware of b.p.'s unfair and callous treatment of employees failure to adhere their own code of conduct and the unwillingness to hide behind a standard of we did what was technically legal but it's not just former disgruntled employees speaking out against the company for its good there was and current b.p. employee and alaska actually went on the record to speak about d. . water horizon because he says his union protects him from retaliation good there said quote it would not surprise me tha

the deepwater horizon controlled by dp exploded in 2010, killing 11 people and spilling nearly 5 million gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico. bp was fighting this settlement, arguing that it did not prevent people from making fraudulent claims against the company, but a federal court on friday ruled that they would have to pay anyway. >>> and finally, sometimes when it rains, it pours, and sometimes when it pours, depending on how much and then how fast and then, of course, the trajectory of the water, you could truck surf. i'm sorry, sounded like i said truck surf. i did. check this out. a very flooded part of southern england, truck surfing happened. these guys hooked up a rope to a 4-wheel-drive vehicle, hopped on their board and made the most of a rainy day, which in england could very well be every day. >> before we know it, it could be a new olympic sport. >> it very, very well could be. >> and we're checking the tape, you said it right. >> i just wanted to make sure that all came out. >> okay. dylan dreyer's here with a check of the forecast. dylan, good morning. >> i'm always