crimes the left eleven men dead in the gulf of mexico last year as greg palast went on to say. eleven guys didn't die because of bad cement they died because of a lie thank god you're here because you're not going to hear it on the petroleum broadcast system you're going to hear it here it's time for the rise of corporate media and our news dependent on turning a profit investigator it is investigative journalism just isn't profitable anymore especially when you take on profitable and powerful industries that may advertise on or sponsor or underwrite your network and we do so is oil and gas ads for example recently and while the nuclear industry has been keeping their heads down they are huge and influential as well for example did you see this protest over the weekend it was more than sixty thousand people taking over and shutting down a large part of. chanting psion or i'm not nuclear power goodbye nuclear power and you probably didn't hear the two nuclear reactors are being built in the gulf coast in texas with rick perry's enthusiastic support and one of the major partners

so many was done by halliburton and i don't know if the report pointed it out but it certainly greg palast and others have reported in detail about how the exact same halliburton with the exact same kind of drilling technology using similar so many operations created an absolute disaster in azerbaijan actually in that in the caspian sea off the coast. and that blew out before this one did haven't there been. any efforts to at least say sorry you can't do this anymore well that was another country so i think it might have made it a little bit more difficult here but we must learn from our mistakes oil and gas industry must learn from mistakes on our regulators must learn what's important now is for congress to take action to dedicate all the fines that b.p. will have to pay under the clean water act to dedicate that to restoration of the gulf of mexico right now would go elsewhere to general treasury and not at all into the gulf of mexico so we're asking congress to dedicate those funds from gulf coast restoration to same things like sea turtles and not to mention the livelihoods and the li