the gulf of mexico is the largest gulf in the tenth largest body of water in the world. yet geographers, consider the gulf of mexico, a mere part of the atlantic ocean. i think is a rip off to the gulf of mexico. the gulf began forming long before the atlantic was a puddle of water. technically, makes the the gulf of mexico the big sibling to the larger sibling. we know about the beautiful beaches but did you know when you are walking on those beaches you are walking down mountains? it's a beautiful quartz sand that we have in florida and other parts of the gulf originated as erosion from appellation mountains. at one time, this this was as high as the himalayan mountains. the beaches were not the reason or the reason for the golf tour season. it was a tarpon back in the 19th century launch what was today the gulf multi- billion-dollar tourist trade. were also familiar with the dead zone. it can reach the size of connecticut depending on conditions but i bet you didn't know there is a direct connection between the golf dead zones and the commercial sponsors of saturday m

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gulf of mexico. the low will cross through the state later today and deliver 1" rain totals in most areas with highs in the 40s saturday, partly cloudy, breezy with highs near 60. during the late morning sunday low 50s. this morning an area of low 43 billion dollars. the budget puts an emphasis on 43 billion dollars. the budget puts an emphasis on five themes - education, public finance, public safety, flood recovery and economic development. in haley's explanation of the budget proposal, she made it clear that south carolina is taking care of its issues and moving forward. "i think that our sucess with grown over time. we hope that they'll do it. they seem very accommodating. they seem willing to work with us. what we saw three years ago with education, they just wanted to be they were willing to do it, they wanted to be shown how. for me, i can't sit there and ask them for something if i don't prove how we do it...." the governor's budget proposal goes to the legislature and revenue- generated bill

>> i trace the origins of this book to my childhood on the gulf of mexico, ending a walot of time on the water and when i started writing this book, my mind was constantly cast back to those days. realizing that growing up in the gulf need me an important sense of place of the gulf of mexico which i believe found its way down to my fingertips and my keyboardand into this book . it's extremely important and it also made this book a oulabor of love. >> you still get to the gulf? >> i still get to the goal. i it's also 65,000 miles away to the atlantic when i go to the goal, my daughter goes to the atlantic and i haven't converted her yet . >> we have another question here i myself florida native that grew up in the 10,000 islands or spend a lot of my time there and i've been trapped inchicago for 35 years . but one thing that struck me particularly about the hypoxic zone and the size of 31 states that contribute, how optimistic are you that there would be either interstate cooperation or federal cooperation to really bring about meaningful change there brian bringing back the >> you're

history occurred in the gulf of mexico, and that, of course, was the 2010 bp disaster. which, by the way, is not the worst environmental disaster that the gulf has suffered. not even close. and we can talk about that during q&a if you like. and i began research on this book before the gulf -- the bp oil spill. and initially, i didn't know how to put the history of the gulf of mexico together. i couldn't, i couldn't find the story that i thought should be told. and then the floating oil platform that none of us had heard of exploded 40 miles out from louisiana in april 2010, and 11 people, tragically, died. while many of us were reading in bed oblivious to what was going on, perhaps ready to turn out the light, maybe even thinking about the next day being earth day, the very day that the deepwater horizon sank into the gulf of mexico. and for 87 nightmarish days that spring rain summer -- that spring and summer, it dominated the news headlines. no more could fish and birds escape this oily tide, could we, could we humans x. without quite realizing it, the spill consumed t

the gulf of mexico. the longest barrier island in the world is padre island at a hundred 13 miles is in texas. tabasco sauce was invented on eight louisiana island, avery island, and florida has an island that is distinguished for having the greatest population density on the gulf of mexico in florida. nearly 5000 people. square mile. anybody have any idea, kathy, my dear friend from my teenage days , we grew up together in pinellas county. any idea? treasure island. treasure island and dallas county has nearly 5000 people. at the other end of the spectrum is sanibel island. 400 people. square mile. why would you go live on treasure island? [laughter] barrier islands and more than 100 rivers that run through the gulf are responsible or help make gulf one of the richest extremes environments in the world. there are more than 200 estuaries in the gulf of mexico. a quarter of all estuaries in the united states. you have barrier islands on one side and freshwater coming down and mixing in with the saltwater w

more importantly, one of our great challenges is the brand of the gulf of mexico, the brand of the gulf seafood. we have seven generations of family that have plied the waters in louisiana. people need to understand. there are no questions about what is in the market. there might be questions about fishing areas that are closed. we should ask those questions. this is wholesome and safe, this is a tremendously conservative science. we need to convince people about this. people instead of ordering oysters on the half shell, they are having chicken or stake. we need to overcome that. 100 + days of oil gushing and the right hand corner of the television screen has branded us as something other than what we are. we will meet that challenge. this is a very small part of the whole gulf of mexico. we need to look at the whole. this is 200 gallons of oil that has escaped from the situation. we need to have the microbes that will eat oil. that was not the case in relationship to the valdez incident where they don't have the warm water. >> would you like to see more testing in the areas that have

i wanted my readers to know the gulf of mexico was more than that. it was part of the larger historical narrative. it is not written in these techs that you can check the index and you're lucky to find them even mentioned. if it is, it's only mentioned in passing. i w tontegrate the gulf mexico history with american history. >> you make a forceful argument that it is america and why is it that -- >> in part, i have to blame my colleagues for this, historically there has been within academia, this focus with regard to american history a focus on new england and virginia. in the gulf region is largely ignored in part because it was originally settled by the spanish. they don't figure into that legacy if you will. saint augustine, which is the oldest in existing european city is hardly even mentioned. >> the architecture of the book is set up around homer's truth. you write about people, history and nature. you bring them together mostly through the stories of people. you tell stories in order to get at these issues. one of the people you use to introduc

gulf of mexico sounds outdated. mr. trump said gulf of america has a big beautiful ring to it. sounds like his endorsement of one big beautiful budget bill to cut taxes and seal tthe border. but speaking of ceiling the border, does not sound like mexican president sheinbaum has done much to help u.s. sseal the border. he threatened a 25% tariff on mexico if they don't cooperate and repeated that the today, what happened to monroe doctrine? that was codified over 200 years ago. but u.s. will not permit european interference in llatin america, you toss in the panama canal, you should add u.s. cannot tolerate chinese interfere reason and mr. trump tossed to greenland. the same core principle alies with russia and china, for building a strong hold for air force or naval power, president trump threatened canada with 25 percent tariff, if they don't cooperate on our northern border. now, trump's trolling of justin trudeau about canada the 51 state, knee capped left wing prime minister out of the ballpark into retirement. and speaking of tariffs, a "washington post" article this trump

is the gulf of mexico recovering. anything change, lowering the risk of a blow-out happening again. we'll start the programme with al jazeera's jonathan martin reporting from louisiana. >> reporter: shore lines stained in oil are no longer common in gulf coast communities much the tar-like odour passed. what linger said five years after the worst oil spill are decisions and debate about bp's financial liability. how much should the company pay for polluting the water and other damage to the environment. >> b.p. needs to stop wining and come clean. >> the companies have done its best to repair the damage. it hasn't run away from its responsibilities. >> reporter: since 2010 bp spent more than $10 million on clean-up. removing sludge. regular cleaning ended last year. the company paid $13 billion in claims and settlements. for the thousands of businesses and people like fishermen who suffered losses. since a judge found bp was grossly negligent for the spill, it faces up to $14 billion in civil fines through the federal

in the gulf of mexico the catastrophe actually happened right in the moment drilling. on our platforms we use the so-called equipment used to. help the totally block the border. and all of this is actually controlled. person who doesn't have to be near it. the main task in case of any accident is to cut off the uncontrolled release of oil or gas as soon as possible. problem was solved in the summer of one thousand nine hundred two on one of the fields near the village of part of my sky in eastern ukraine an accident occurred four hundred meters away from the settlement by an oil derrick gas under tremendous pressure burst from the ground. which is very helpful for the environment especially if this hydrogen sulfide. every living thing around this building to which kills flying to the. nuclear explosion isn't environmentally friendly which is very cost effective. to have occurred and everything has been. used to specialize in transporting especially heavy cargo pensioner remembers all too clearly the day he transported a nuclear bomb to an oil well near the village of pe

and the south of the persian gulf and they are actually taking advantage of this issue. and in the persian gulf was strengthened after an important historical event in 1924. the sick man of europe. the sick man was a nickname given by europeans to the ottoman empire the empire, which for more than six centuries covered a large part of west asia, including the arab regions of the persian gulf, declined after the end of the first world war, and in 1924, it gave way to modern turkey, which no longer has any signs of its former power. i didn't have any photos before the official collapse of the ottoman empire in the year 16 england and france had killed the map of the division of west asia among themselves. it had become france, and many areas along the persian gulf came under the influence of england, and in this way, a small country whose name was not on the map of geography until now, one after the other. countries like saudi arabia, uae, kuwait, qatar, and later it was separated from iran with the guidance and weight, in fact, the support provided by england, we have witn

production from the gulf of mexico which accounts for seven percent of all us natural gas only provided 6.8 percent to the gulf coast coast states. so while 457 and a half million dollars went to wyoming and 707 million to new mexico only $249 million was shared by all for gulf states. i commend senator cassidy for working with senator whitehouse and others on new legislation to reflect an updated approach to revenue-sharing covers revenue from all wind energy production and appropriately updatesrevenue-sharing from the gulf of mexico . we've gone under laws passed in 2006. mister chairman, thank you for allowing me to testify on these vital issues. we are committed to addressing climate change responsibly to an orderly energy transition but we must find a way to take a balanced and responsible approach where we are producing clean oil and gas while mitigating the causes of climate change and environmentally responsible oil and gas production must be allowed to continue on the continental shelf in the gulfof mexico . thank you everyone here from mister holmes. >> good morning chairman m

the more difficult the process the higher the risks the gulf of mexico oil spill is a strike. by a number of technological. as it turns out all existing methods of stemming the flow of oil do not work in a crisis situation the set of measures available today is simply. an ecologist he was a member of an official international delegation invited to mexico in early june two thousand and ten. the russian specialist told the mexican government and united states senators about their proposals on how to block the leaking wellhead. specialists spoke of a concrete solution. in the past they used nuclear explosions still to spread of fires on oil fields. they presented the set of techniques which could be applied to the leaking wellhead. underground explosion was used on august tenth one thousand nine hundred seventy two to deal with an accident on a major gas field near the village of. eastern ukraine many of the villagers employed at the oil derricks four hundred metres from where it was extracted when they were drilling a new will to add to the thirty four already in use gas suddenly

coming up with the disastrous consequences of the gulf of mexico oil spill r.t. takes a look at whether black gold is really worth such a high price in our special report up next here on r.t. . the explosion of the gulf of mexico stunned the entire world according to various estimates six to fifteen million liters of oil tuesday into the water each day for three and a half months in the soviet union underground nuclear explosions were used to deal with leaking whelps they stem the flow of oil within a short period of time. nuclear explosion is safe and very effective economically a different method has been used in the gulf of mexico installed a special cap on the leaking pipe the task now is to skim the oil slick which now covers nearly two thirds of the gulf surface some one million square kilometers one tenth of the oil spilled has formed this slick even if engineers eventually succeed in skimming oil from the surface approximately five hundred million liters of oil will remain on the ocean floor and in various steps it's not the first time such a catastrophe h

gulf of mexico. thank you very much. g to think all of your opening statements that were going to be over their questions. my first question, mr. holmes, or have this discussion on his 11 year after the bp deepwater explosion and oil spill. that action had a norma's financial, environmental and human costs at support to keep in mind that 11 people lost their lives. so, can you walk us through what has changed since then and have we in short insured that it won't happen again? i will follow-up on that is there more to be done? are we still working to ensure that? or do you feel confident we've come to full circle to make sure this ise not going happen again? >> thank you for ear question. i think what we continue to learn every day. part of my role is how can we do better tomorrow than we did today? and how can we continue to constantly learn? that's why customer safety exists we learn from catastrophes and disasters like the people in the incident that happened. and how can we face >> tells what happened what caused allll

he says whatever happens will affect all americans. >> the gulf of mexico offshore produces about 30% of the energy needs of the country. to shut that down even temporarily is going to have a ripple effect. it goes all the way to the consumer. >> reporter: meaning higher energy prices for utilities and at the pump. but david goldston of the natural resources defense council says all drilling is risky. >> these problems are not unique to deep water. and they can cause even quicker damage in shallow water if they are actually closer to shore. so we think that there is nothing about what we know about the problem so far and what past experience shows that indicates it is an exclusively deep water problem. >> reporter: president obama made clear today gas and oil are still an important part of the nation's energy mix. the focus now is how to drill it safely. stephanie dhue, nightly business report on the rowan, mississippi, on the gulf of mexico. >> tom: as we mentioned earlier president obama also outlined new tougher regulations for energy companies including a ban on some deep water of

production from the gulf of mexico which accounts for seven percent of all us natural gas only provided 6.8 percent to the gulf coast coast states. so while 457 and a half million dollars went to wyoming and 707 million to new mexico only $249 million was shared by all for gulf states. i commend senator cassidy for working with senator whitehouse and others on new legislation to reflect an updated approach to revenue-sharing covers revenue from all wind energy production and appropriately updatesrevenue-sharing from the gulf of mexico . we've gone under laws passed in 2006. mister chairman, thank you for allowing me to testify on these vital issues. we are committed to addressing climate change responsibly to an orderly energy transition but we must find a way to take a balanced and responsible approach where we are producing clean oil and gas while mitigating the causes of climate change and environmentally responsible oil and gas production must be allowed to continue on the continental shelf in the gulfof mexico . thank you everyone here from mister holmes. >> good morning chairman m

so are you committed that they will lease in the gulf of mexico? >> and then very glad. >> if you speak and with that constructionrs jobs by more hurricanes. speaking to the american and public of the great american outdoors act from the land water conservation fund which depends onn the funding. i yield back i'm just frustrated by this in action. >> thank you senator. mr. chairman. so who is it that you work for? is this a government agency? >> it is a group of an offshore oil and gas companies. >> sometimes we hate to be right. and then to cross-examine but the failure to adequately the pipelines. because of the cyberthreat. i can guarantee your systems are vulnerable to cyberattack today. whatever you tell me i can guarantee putin's hackers could be ine the written several weeks. the data systems are vulnerable the valve serve helpful level. what type of strong systems do you have in place, let me rephrase the question, would you accept regulation by another agency of the federal government to ensure cyberprotection? and we w will see what that c

gulf of mexico. offshore energy production and environmental resiliency is not a partisan issue in louisiana . governor edwards and i have worked together as the best position in our state for the energy transition occurring while recognizing oil and gas will continue to be an important part of the us energy mix for years to come. we work together because of climate change impacting louisiana unlike any other state and we have the largest climate adaptation plan which under his leadership is helping to fight coastal erosion. the revenue we received from this energy production or is so critical to this effort. unfortunately the current posture of the biden administration threatens our long-term ability to fund these projects while putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk. you said it senator barrosso, eliminating productions does not decrease demand. energy will increase but not without american energy produced by other nations with nonexistent admissions or lastly and forced emissions standards. stre

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the dispute between the north of the persian gulf and the south of the persian gulf they are actually taking advantage of this england in the persian gulf was strengthened after an important historical event in 1924. the sick man of europe . after the end of the first world war, it declined and in 1924 it gave way to today's turkey, which no longer had any signs of its past power. photos before the official collapse of the ottoman empire in the year 16, england and france . the map of the division of west asia between them. they were killed when khushi of the persian gulf came under the influence of england in this way, a small country whose name was not on the geographical map until now, one after the other , was separated from countries like saudi arabia, the emirates of kuwait, qatar, and later remixed from iran, with the guidance and support of england. we are witnessing the creation of a number of countries that are greenhouse countries in the south of the persian gulf, and these are actually governments, countries that lack the necessary infrastructure because a country needs it

exploring the impacts of the bp gulf oil spill. articipated in a dive in the alvin submarine, nearly a mile below the ocean surface getting closer to the site of the blowout than anyone had ever been. well, antonia juhasz joins us now to describe what she saw. her report is in the new issue of harpers magazine is titled, "thirty million gallons under the sea: following the trail of bp's oil in the gulf of mexico." she's also author of, "black tide: the devastating impact of the gulf oil spill." welcome back to democracy now! what did you see? how did you do this? >> a pleasure to be here. it was an amazing adventure, to say the least. the alvin submarine celebrated its 50th anniversary last year incredibly important -- the first in the last human occupied summering still available for research on a so it is an incredible experience to be able to go down in it. and dr. samantha joy, one of the leading experts on oil and gas in the gulf of mexico who has led the research, looking at the impact of the bp disaster, was my guide with our

the gulf of a mexico accounts for almost 1/3 of u.s. oil production. if we eliminate that supply, the dependency on foreign oil will indeed go up. saudi arabia will be happy. hugo chÁvez and mahmoud ahmadinejad will be popping champagne, but the consumers will rrmember the good old days when gas was only four dollars per gallon. i asked secretary salazar to ask what went wrong on that the deepwater horizon rig. he said you believed it was preventable, that ii was the result of human error and overlooked safety regulations. [buzzer sounds] i will wait for that. we will not be satisfied until there is no danger to our environment. let us learn from this awful mistake, fix the problem, clean up the gulf, and look forward to fixing our ailing economy and creating private sector jobs. >> we recognize the chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from california, henry waxman. >> thank you for holding this hearing and for your tenacious work on this issue. you have been a true advocate for transparency and admonished traded accountability. accountability

gulf . this is the intrinsic importance of the persian gulf itself . if we turn the pages of the history of the persian gulf, we can see that, in fact , for many years in our history, the year 1508 ad was occupied by the oranges, and at that time, there was neither oil nor gas. but the persian gulf is important. which has this importance by nature and until 162 ad there will be 117 years left here and today is actually the end of the portuguese occupation in the persian gulf. the persian gulf has a very important position in terms of economic status. both oil and gas in this region are 40 gas in the region and 622 in oil in this region. it shows the importance of this area. the persian gulf region is very important in terms of security, and we in the islamic republic have given the message of peace and friendship many times in this region, and we are looking for peace and friendship. today, we are proud to ensure the safety of the strait of hormuz and the daily traffic of 80. and we secured three ships in this area. all these actually show the importanc

devices used to soak it up from the surface of the gulf of mexico need to be somehow. a research lab and has come up with an unexpected solution. you know quite a number of. two hundred feet on patrol in one hundred. trying to make use of. the researchers have developed a new population of salt resistant microorganisms that feed. breaking it down into components that are harmless to the environment. the final product of hydrocarbon breakdown are carbon dioxide and water but it is a gradual process after several years of laboratory tests scientists have decided to publish their results microorganisms begin to interact with the oil spill spreading on the bay in front of our eyes a future pollution control exercise naturally without human intervention the only serious drawback of this method is that it's very time consuming. we have already seen the first environmental effect that we were trying to prevent the spread of the oil. it has been localized and the destruction of the spill will take from a few weeks to several months to be. currently microorganisms are a bulky ex

we will speak to one man in the gulf of mexico. it is the annual pageant of pop and pat in equal measure, but this weekend is about politics as much as music great -- as much as music. here is our correspondent. >> drip, drop, produced by swedes has been made back -- performed by 17-year-old sarah, who has visited nine european countries sakura. azerbaijani really wants to win. each year the countries who may not otherwise get much attention shine on its local stage. and here on a norwegian ship, some of the contestants were getting acclimatized to the weather, and the pressure is on another of the favorite spirit, i do not see us as a favorite, so everything is cool. >> but in a global downturn, it is expensive business, and hungry and montenegro have skipped this year -- and hungry and montenegro have skip this year's -- and hungary and not the letter have skipped this year's event. you are doing it in front of how many people? >> 120 million people, so no mistakes. no mistakes allowed. >> while he too has a hugely successful rout

i'm a sign the activist at the gulf of maine research institute at the gulf of maine and the gulf of maine is one of the fastest warming regions in the world' ocean. since we sort of realized how rapidly the gulf of maine was warming, a lot of my research has focused on how these warming patterns are affecting fish populations, fisheries, and fishing communities and i'm here today to share with you some of the experiences related to fisheries in the northeast u.s. and hopefully using these examples to demonstrate that the findings and the key messages that are coming out of the special report on oceans and cryosphere are not far away and far into the future, they are messages that are relevant here and now. we're already seeing a lot of these changes occurring in fisheries in the northeast u.s. so i am going to -- in my talk today, attempt to highlight a few examples related to some of the key themes in this report and i thought this report does an excellent job of highlighting some of the physical changes we're seeing in the ocean, particularly that the ocean is warming, warming rate

and the gulf of mexico is part of global tech assistant. what we learned in the united states should be shared worldwide. operations and safety can constantly improving everywhere. >> and bank you very much. >> it is a pleasure to be here today and a pleasure to give you an overview of offshore drilling in the gulf of mexico, and also provide an overview to you or were the challenges are and what we see is the solutions to those challenges as we go forward in deep water drilling. what i like to take away is that there is an operating environment and an are within which we can operate and build these will safely. it is enabled by a framework of standards and procedures. it is assisted by a great faking management system and a great safety culture. it will help manage the top risk. the third thing is that there are risks of a physical nature when we look at the forces unloads involved, but they can be managed as we drill these wells. we cannot really talk about the challenges in deep water without having an understanding of what the processes

mexico or the gulf of america, and in the case of the ap, they are saying gulf of mexico.ut president trump change did to the gulf of america for americans. >> this is such an important point. outlining what it is the ap does, i don't think most people, even well-informed people, understand this role. what they may be hearing is somebody from some news organization can't get into the white house briefing room. so what? there are 500 of them in there. why does that matter? you can get into fights with individual news outlets all the time. this is meant to send definitely a message and we have already seen a number of news organizations who trump has gone after legally, decide to settle or give over, in the case of cbs, the footage. so it goes back to your point, he is getting everything he wants. why would he do something different? geoff: why doesn't the press band together and boycott press availability and stick it to the white house and show them that the freedom of the press matters? >> maybe that could still happen, but right now with the -- if the press corps were to