and people organized aggressively in their response to exxon valdez. they shutdown exxon stations and protested and demanded policy and got out of the bush administration a critical piece of legislation, the oil solution act. in 1969 off of the coast of santa barbara when an oil wells blew people were galvanized and ready. they saw imagery that captured their heart and soul. years later they got earth day. they got the clean water act and clean air act and the environmental protection agency and 11 years of organizing later, they got a moratorium on offshore drilling in some places. what happened here was those photographs particularly of the brown pelicans soaked in oil, state bird of louisiana captured people. captured our hea

you have to remember during exxon valdez the evening news and you had the newspaper, morning, evening and newspaper. now you have the internet and 24/7 sea and and so the branding was more complete this time. bp has contributed a lot of dollars to this and a federal government. we have to understand what synapsees are in the consumer's mind and message amount of that connection to where we can change it. we have to convince them, miss lucina's work at the university, what they saw is not just what is happening to seafood. that black streak on the back of a shrimp is not oil. it is not going to be easy. we have to get ted danson to get in front of people and say it 100 times. >> we worked together for many years. part of the problem is we have come out of an era where science -- without being partisan -- science really wasn't a leading the way. so then you have people whose self-interest, we are all full of our own self-interest and every industry wants their way. so science started to get downplayed. you lost trust. people would say something and it would be true. if we let science le

similar to exxon valdez?>> this audit panel was put together this time we have the technical expertise and working groups we pull from academia and the states and agencies as needed and along with the responsible parties as part of the technical working groups we do have experts in the field as we design the studies and long-term restoration projects connected to consider putting a panel together on exxon valdez? >> we've heard that input from some of or ngo partners. i think in as if memory serves me right in exxon valdez that group was set up after there were settlements to look at how many were being spent post settlement. as said in this case where the resettlement we do have a lot of technical expertise within these working groups and alone working with 75 some academics along with their support staff and we feel like we got a strong technical expertise within the working groups and we can speak candidly with some of the experts we are working with under confidentiality agreements >> thank you very much.

similar to exxon valdez? >> this audit panel was put together this time we have the technical expertise and working groups we pull from academia and the states and agencies as needed and along with the responsible parties as part of the technical working groups we do have experts in the field as we design the studies and long-term restoration projects connected to consider putting a panel together on exxon valdez? >> we've heard that input from some of or ngo partners. i think in as if memory serves me right in exxon valdez that group was set up after there were settlements to look at how many were being spent post settlement. as said in this case where the resettlement we do have a lot of technical expertise within these working groups and alone working with 75 some academics along with their support staff and we feel like we got a strong technical expertise within the working groups and we can speak candidly with some of the experts we are working with under confidentiality agreements >> thank you very much

when you talk about exxon valdez, you're talking about a very heavy, heavy crude oil that was already partially refined in a ship that was ready to move forward. you're talking raw coming out of the bottom sweet louisiana crude. in the gulf of mexico we have drilled 40,000 offshore wells. and we leak not from oil activity, just natural seepage, 50 to 100 million gallons of oil a year into the natural environment. we have bacteria as dr. boesch indicated that eat that up annually. i was raised in southern california but with a name like voisin, most people don't know that. but i would go to the beach in southern california and i would get tar balls on my feet because there's oil of that coast as well and there's a lot of leakage there and i've gotten them in the atlantic as well. >> yeah. yes. absolutely. the numbers mean a lot. but it's also true that the natural seeps are fairly low rate and there's a natural ecosystem around them that kind of deals with it so clearly the biologists i've talked to said this was a big hit all at once and it depends on how it sorts out. >> i agree with

one example, the "exxon valdez" is the thing that got her into politics. >> i have a feeling we'll hearvie in the days and weeks to come. thank you so much, joe johns from iowa. >>> sarah palin was not the only one in iowa today. president obama was there, as well. the race for the white house is on. where do the candidates and noncandidates stand thus far? chip saltsman former presidential campaign manager for mike huckabee and jennifer palmieri. what kind of message do you think sarah palin is sending to iowa voters by debuting her movie in their state? >> the first message is i'm relevant, i'm in the game. i want to be part of the conversation. you take her being in pella, iowa, today in a red carpet treatment and what she did in new hampshire with mitt romney's announcement. she is going to be part of this conversation and interject herself and the media will cover it because they can't help themselves. the biggest message is sarah palin wants to be part of the 2012 conversation and she is. >> that's different from running, right? do you think she is going to run? big part of the co

the exxon valdez was a heavy crude oil that was already partially refined and ready to move forward. you are talking about light, sweet louisiana approved -- louisiana crude. we have 40,000 offshore wells. we leak 50 to 100 million per year. i was raised in southern california. i would go to the beach in southern california and i would get tar balls on my feet. there's a lot of leakage there. >> yeah. >> absolutely, the numbers mean a lot. it is also true that the natural seaps are a low rate and there is a natural ecosystem. this was a big hit all at once and we are now trying to understand how that sort out. let me turn to don. i imagine people not only care whether their food is safe, but whether it is sustainable and what is the overall health of seafood from the gulf. in answering that question, you could remind us this is not the only insult that has ever happened to the gulf of mexico. >> we have talked about the effects of the seafood we captured and enjoyed last year and its safety. those species, those populations, of those fisheries have a set of long-term problems they ar

exxon valdez, the water was very, very cold.retty dang warm and the light touch, the benzines, the toluenes, they all evaporate faster in that warm water. >> i thank the gentleman. the time has expired. i recognize mr. clay for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, governor, for coming today to the hearing. >> thank you, sir. >> governor, the national commission report noted something that may seem obvious which is that offshore oil and gas industry is inherently dangerous. but the commission also reported the accident are surprisingly comment that involved loss of well control. here's what the report said. drilling rigs are themselves dangerous places to work. hence, heavy work, chemicals flammable oil and gas all surrounded by the open sea environment far from shore. where weather and water conditions can change rapidly and dramatically. the seriousness of these risks to worker safety and the environment are underscored by the sheer number of accidents. governor, the commission report then says that there ha

exxon valdez, the water was very, very cold. the water here is pretty dang warm and the light touch, the benzines, the toluenes, they all evaporate faster in that warm water. >> i thank the gentleman. the time has expired. i recognize mr. clay for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, governor, for coming today to the hearing. >> thank you, sir. >> governor, the national commission report noted something that may seem obvious which is that offshore oil and gas industry is inherently dangerous. but the commission also reported the accident are surprisingly comment that involved loss of well control. here's what the report said. drilling rigs are themselves dangerous places to work. hence, heavy work, chemicals flammable oil and gas all surrounded by the open sea environment far from shore. where weather and water conditions can change rapidly and dramatically. the seriousness of these risks to worker safety and the environment are underscored by the sheer number of accidents. governor, the commission report the

chairman, of the relief during exxon valdez.much of that was dispersed to chemical disbursement's to remove more than a day in coldwater belasco. but we don't know the impact all of that will have on our system environmentally. for a season, the incident follows miles of beautiful beaches, persuaded tourists from frequenting the area and cause joint economic loss to the region seafood industry. maybe a show mr. chairman to photographs that give a feel for our area from the alabama gulf coast. we were really hammered in the tourist industry. can you about a? this is the condition of the beaches -- public beaches where people live and go for recreation there. it's been cleaned very well. bp people are still there. it's some oil comes up, they will clean it up promptly. now, this chart is that the wildlife refuge area on the beach. the wildlife service are uneasy about using equipment to clean it up for environmental reasons. it may have to be cleaned by hand, but this is an area that are not public beaches, but is an area of envir

very hard to quantify, document, see a fish egg that was dead, and one of the legacies of the exxon-valdez spill was new knowledge about the impacts of oil on the development of fish larva, and we know they are very sensitive to oil, and so i'm putting a marker down and flagging that there are some very real concerns about long term impacts that we won't know for awhile, and that's part of the natural resource damage assessment process is to evaluate that and to track it, not just say everything's fine now because it looks okay because there's a lot we don't know. >> all right, let's remember in prince p.m. sound, there were fish populations that looked just fine for a couple years and then crashed so you don't want to call the all clear too soon. >> right. there's a difference between fish that you might be catching to eat who can process hydrocarbons, they ma tab lies it, and so they don't, you know, the hydrocarbons don't build up in their bodies and that fish that was swimming in the gulf if it encountered oil can be safe to eat now, but that's not true at the young vulnerable stages t

you have to remember, during exxon valdez, you have the evening news, and the newspaper.oday, you have the internet, 247 cnn, so the branding was more complete this time. what we will have to do -- bp has to check did a lot of dollars, as well as the federal government -- we will have to see what synopsises are connected in the consumer's mind, and message them out of that connection to where we can change that. we are never going to forget about the tylenol scare all. -- tylenol scare. we will have to convince them through dr. lu chan a -- dr. lubchenco's organization. will not be easy. we will need to get ted danson to stand up in front of everybody and say a 100 times. >> hi, dawn. we worked together for many years. part of the problem is we came out of an era where science, without being partisan, it was not really on the throne. was not really leading the way. then you have people -- it was not leading the way. you have people -- we are all products of our self-interest. every industry wants their way. science started to get downplayed, and you lost trust that people

exxon valdez, the water was very, very cold. the water here is pretty dang warm and the light touch, the benzines, the toluenes, they all evaporate faster in that warm water. >> i thank the gentleman. the time has expired. i recognize mr. clay for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you, governor, for coming today to the hearing. >> thank you, sir. >> governor, the national commission report noted something that may seem obvious which is that offshore oil and gas industry is inherently dangerous. but the commission also reported the accident are surprisingly comment that involved loss of well control. here's what the report said. drilling rigs are themselves dangerous places to work. hence, heavy work, chemicals flammable oil and gas all surrounded by the open sea environment far from shore. where weather and water conditions can change rapidly and dramatically. the seriousness of these risks to worker safety and the environment are underscored by the sheer number of accidents. governor, the commission report the

valdez. they shut down exxon stations they proposed and they demanded policy and they got out of the bush, sr., administration a critical piece of information, the oil pollution act. similarly, in 1969, off the coast of santa barbara, when an oil well blew. people organized. they were galvanized. they were imagery that captured their hearts and souls and a year later got the earth day, the environmental protection agency and 11 long years and they got an moratorium on offshore in some places. what happened here was that those photographs, particularly of the brown pel kins soaked in oil, the state bird of louisiana, captured people. captured our hearts and our minds. but those pictures started to go away and i think what most people assumed those pictures were going away because what? the oil birds were going away, right. less oil birds, less images. that's not what happened. what i was able to track in the book is, in fact, as the number of oil birds were increasing the photographs were decreasing and the reason was because we started being threatened to be thrown in jail if we went within 4

because if you remember in valdez it was the photographs of the royal soap that really captured people's souls. people organized aggressively in their response. they shut down exxon's stations. they protested and amended policy. they got out of the bush administration, the bush senior administration a critical piece of legislation, the oil pollution act. similarly in 1969 off the coast of santa barbara when an oil well will people organized, there were galvanized. there were ready. they saw the imagery that captured their heart and souls. a year later they got earth day, the clean water act, the clean air act, the environmental protection agency and 11 years of organizing later they got a moratorium on offshore drilling in some places. what happened here was that those photographs, particularly of the brown pelican soaked in oil, the state bird of louisiana -a people, captured our hearts and mind. but the pictures started to go away. most people a sense there were going away because the birds are going away. less birds, as images. i was able to track and the board that impact as the number of birds as increasing the photographs for decreasing. the reason why was be

it is larger than the entire nrda restoration process for the exxon valdez spill. under the framework for early restoration, each trustee, the five states and the department of interior and know it will intimate $100 million in projects with remaining $300 million user projects selected i know and the department of interior from proposal submitted by the state trustees. disagreement would not been possible without the combined and concerted efforts of all of the trustees working together. with so many resources and agencies involved in this daunting but a credit important task, it's essential to ensure continuing cooperation and coordination to guarantee that restoration of our natural resources is carried out to the benefit of all. both from an early restoration perspective and for the long-term benefit of the gulf as a whole. in order to manage these early restoration processes and continue the assessment that's been ongoing for some time, the trust accounts and has formed an executive committee. the committee is made up of representatives from each of the truste