in 1989, alaska sufficiented the exxon-valdez spill. more than 20 years later, alaskans are still dealing with the gaff math and impacts are still monitored, assessed in the waters of the prions william sound. -- prince william sound. many who who waited kids before seeing justice in the courts still feel impacts that the spill caused in their communities. while the effects are tragic, these could and should have been avoided. the parties cut corners taking unnecessary risks for the promise of greater profits. while the mistakes made leading up to the deadly deepwater horizon disaster, the responses must be measuredded. the united states needs to be put firmly on the path to energy security and cannot do that without increasing our domestic supply of oil. it must be a part of any plan whether the ocs or the arctic waters of my state. we need to rededicate ourselves to take the steps are taken. we need to better implement better standards and practices and regulators must keep them accountable while they may trust, they must also verify.

but it was found by some archaeologists who were working for the state of alaska following the exxon valdez oil spill, and there was great concern that some of these areas that were being impacted by the spill had archaeological sites on them that no one had looked for and that could be damaged by the oil directly or by clean-up activities, and one of the results of the spill was that almost 1,000 new archaeological sites were discovered. when alaska was purchased by the united states, they instituted the census every 10 years, and the first one in 1880 recorded a few people living in one village out on the coast, and by the next census in 1890, there were no native alaskan settlers out here. they had in the meantime resettled in english bay because of the effects of deprivation under the fur trade system, which was really one of forced labor, or probably a substantial impact from smallpox and other diseases. eir population had dwindled. they went to english bay, collected there, and there was a church there. the russian orthodox priest wanted them to come there and settle at one centralize

the bp event takes place or the exxon valdez or hurricane katrina, and we start to focus on that. what were the problems, how do we resolve the. and the alarm goes off and it wakes us up. six months from now the alarm goes off, we tap the snooze and was sleep for 10 more minutes. a year from now we slap the snooze three more times. we snooze for 30 minutes. i think we lose the passion, enthusiasm base on the event. we've got to engage in the private industry. who not only has the funding for it but also has the greatest risk and the greatest possibility for loss of revenue in the event you have another event like this. >> i'm from the naval graduate school. when this event first rolled out, there was a lot of confusion on emergency management side because it's different, it's an oil spill. there's different regulations. where's the stafford act, all of these things you were doing? and when you bring up the issue, admiral, about what if this was a terrorist attack happening? how would we respond and how it emergency management or the control, the command and control be different in

oil pollution act of 1990 you may result is the direct result of exxon valdez.navigable waters ways are coast guard is the authority. also responsible party in the state. kind of upside down what we typically have under disaster management. typically the locals, then region, then your state and then your federal partners. this is what it looked like at houma at the unified command. governor's office called me. i was on vacation with friends of mine from saskatchewan. there is really a place in canada. i was at eau gallie plantation. can you, be brief. need you to help run the operation be the deputy state director and coordinator with the bp oil spill. so he sent me down to houma to the command post. how many are you there working a command post? okay. how many people is in your command post typically? 5, 10, 15, 20, 100? this is what it looked like in houma on the first day. i was the one in the middle. i was the fox with all the hounds. the hounds had been down there for about a week and a half before i got there. now what my job was to get all the hound and t

valdez. they shut down exxon station, protested, demanded policy and got out of the bush administration, the bush senior administration, critical piece of legislation. similarly in 1869 at the coast of santa barbara when an oil well blue, people organized, people ready. they saw the imagery that captured hearts and souls in a year later they got birthday. they got the clean water act, the clean air act, the environmental protection agency and the levin long years of organizing later, in moratorium. what happened here was that those photographs, particularly of the brown pelicans soaked in oil captured our hearts and minds. but those pictures started to go away. what most people assumed his pictures are going away because oil birds were going away. that's not have been. but i was able to track in the book is in fact is the number of oil birds is increasing, photographs were decreasing. the reason why was because we started being threatened to be thrown in jail if we went within 40 miles -- 40 feet of boom. if we went onto beaches where there is oil. i was trying to go in those who take pictur