angola is a petro state. iraq is a petro state. this isn't a petro state. it's not. the people who worked in the industry told me by the end is, you know what? we could do without this work. it's not safe. we don't like it. it's dangerous. give us something else to do. we can't do it. we can't organize for it here. we're in the gulf of mexico. it's hard to organize for the alternatives here. we can work on it, but we need your help. you folks who work with green peace and the center for bilogical diversity and you folks in california and dc, you have to fight so that we can have alternative energy jobs, wind, solar. they are ready, but they need our help, and the one year anniversary is the time. it is the opportunity. this is the time when the world focuses on this issue again, when public attention is gripped again, and we can actually organize to see change put into place, so thank you very much for listening. obviously there's a great deal more about this written in the book. we are eager to answer your questions and have discussion and thank you very much for be

i work in oil so angola is petro state. iraq is a petro state. 90% of gdp is from oil. louisiana is 8%. what the people who worked in the industry told me, by the end, you know what? we could do without this work. we don't like it. it is dangerous. give us something else to do. we can organize in the golf. it is hard to organize for the alternative. we can work on it but we need your help. you folks can work with green beans or the center of biological diversity or california and vermont and d.c.. you have to fight so we can have alternative energy jobs, wind and solar. the hardest cut oil workers said this to me by this time. they are ready but they need our help. and the 1-year anniversary is the time. it is the opportunity. it is the time the world is focusing on this issue again. public attention is gripped again. we can actually organize a see change to put it into place. thank you very much for listening. obviously there is a great deal more about this in the book. we are eager to answer your questions and have a discussion. thank you very much for being with us t

we're on our way to hack sun mobile to the largest petro chemical facility in united states. petro chemical companies in the easy. employ more than one hundred thousand people . there's a lot of folks who are good neighbors but there is this percentage of folks that are really bad neighbors and it really ruins people's lives literally because they aren't obeying the law. a chemical worker told me when he would come home in his clothes with smell he tells children that was a small money. yes it is jobs but we care about the workers too you need to have a safe job. it is hard when people are worried you know where's my next paycheck and a come from my paycheck is coming from my company we are very attune and try to help people who want to do something but they can only do so much and that and there's no judgement there i mean this is just to be about helping people and not not harming anybody. this is going to harm my job it's going to harm my husband. or you know will my people in the community look at me differently or they think i'm a crazy environmentalist for a while people

they produce over twenty five percent of the petro chemicals made in the united states. it's known as cancer alley. the book when i brought my son michael holmes from the hospital they told me he might be blind deaf or brain damage and certainly more the more susceptible cerebral palsy and more susceptible to respiratory infections and monia etc. and then i realized that the air was in on attainment here meaning that it was unhealthy to breathe seventeen times that year the year that i brought him home i felt really like our basic civil rights are being violated that i wasn't certain when i opened up my window that i was getting clean air i wasn't certain that the earth was clean i wasn't certain that the water that i was drinking was all right and i was terrified for my children are. going to go. so i think there's nothing like a mother's instinct lots of misery something about that we already have to watch when our air quality is bad and then i realize the basic civics lesson that. i am that somebody. asked when i got involved i said i do this for six months and now is

. >> other people in other parts of the united states have no idea the job market and availability here. >> reporter: baytown is a petrouring facilities run by big names like exxon mobil, chevron, phillips, and bayer. >> it's very competitive. with our local oil gas and petro chemical companies. we're going after the same talent pool. >> reporter: bayer manufactures high tech plastics vying for processed technology operators. over the next five years, 3800 of them will be needed in the gulf coast region. not engineers with a four-year degree, but skilled workers with two-year associate degrees in science-based technology. >> back in 2000, we had typically about 2,000 applicants for every 20 to 30 vacancies. by contrast, today, we have about 250 applicants for those same 20 to 30 vacancies. >> reporter: it's a similar story at manufacturing plants across the country. in part, due to experienced baby boomers retiring and in part, due to the rapid advancement of technology. schools just aren't turning out enough students with the math and science skills needed. >> we will struggle as an economy if we don't find a way to f

petro bras, the brazilian oil giant. it would indeed provide a windfall given from american taxpayers to the state-owned brazilian oil giant petrobraz. yes, this bill in front of us now. i'm pleased to yield three minutes to representative castor from florida. unlike some of the debators today, someone who actually lives on the gulf of mexico. the chair: the gentlelady from florida is recognized for three minutes. ms. castor: thank you. i thank my colleague for yielding time. mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 1229. this proposal, this republican proposal is very poor public policy. and as a member who represents a community that is dependent on the gulf coast economy, it frankly it is appalling for my republican friends to press, to eliminate safety standards on oil companies who want to continue to drill and come closer and closer to our beautiful beaches really is beyond the pale. i have to ask, did my colleagues not learn anything from this disaster? our economy on florida's gulf coast we depend on clean water and clean beaches. and when you bring up a bill like this it feels like a direct challenge to ou