here is teapot dome naval petroleum reserve parity you see it outlined here in yellow. way andreek flows this down here is the spot where teapot rock is located. teapot rock is how the dome or the -- got its name. they selected that location because very nearby was a very major oilfield. the salt creek oilfield that was one of the largest oil-producing fields in the entire united states if not the world. that was in the early part of the 20th century. when this particular reserve was set aside, there was a belief area thatneath this was named for this rock that looked like a teapot at one time , nowadays it sort of looks like a chimney rock. at one time it had a handle and years, i and over the think it was in the 1920's, the spout got broken off by lightening -- by a lightning strike and a handle disappeared, too, from erosion. now, if you say it is by teapot rock, people say how does that look like a teapot? it doesn't anymore. it once was a teapot. on that location, before 1920, that location was simply fenced off and left in the public byain and sort of watch over o

here is teapot dome naval petroleum reserve. you see it outline here in yellow.reek flows this way and down here is this spot where teapot rock is located. teapot rock is how the dome, or the anticline got its name. the navy selected that verycular location because nearby was a very major oilfield , the salt creek oilfield. it was one of the largest oil-producing fields in the entire united states, if not the world in the early part of the 20th century. when this particular reserve was there was the belief that underneath this area that was named for this rock that looked like a teapot at one time , nowadays it kind of looks like a chimney rock. at one time it had a handle, it had a spout. over the years, i think it was in the 1920's, the spout got broken off by a lightning strike and eventually the handle disappeared, too, from erosion. and now if you say it is up by teapot rock, well, how does that look like a teapot? it does not anymore. it once was a teapot. 1920,t location before that location was simply fenced and left in the public domain and sort of watch

this is my, anytime we get off of petroleum and replace petroleum such as petro plastics are hemp plastics 3-d printers doubling compost at which is 15 to 20% of carbon emissions. these nightmare high energy petro chemical-based building materials we use. anytime you get off of petroleum you to something good for the world. we know about exxon valdez. epic battles going on over oil and terrible things happening. i'm not somebody that in good conscience can criticize the petroleum industry because i believe the petroleum industry helped make america great. i wouldn't be able to type out my -- without petroleum. petroleum did so much good for america we would not have been able to win world war ii without texas crude. if we are on the mall somewhere in d.c. have some sort of gusher next to the lincoln monument i'm cool with that. thank you petroleum for all you have done. that was last century and let's move onto the next thing so we can start healing these situations. a big issue for american farmers now i'm coloradans know this is how do you get your seats? one would like to thank that the

those who are particularly interested in the business side, in the petroleum side of the folger story, let me recommend chapters 3 and 4. so my challenge was to understand and to convey, how did folger do it? how did he rise to the top of two fields, the petroleum industry in the world, and rare books, especially shakespeare's period. the folgers had no children, they had no private yachts to distract them. they had no string of resources. they accepted no business lunches. they had no business receptions in their homes. they limited their family reunions to twice a year. they were single-minded be devoted to -- i you familiar with the phrase by idolatry - a --bardolat --bardolatry? the folders were guilty as charged. annette-said --unabashed bard o bardologis bardologists. although they believe firmly that were shakespeare wrote shakespeare. they developed a very important collection of books on the authorship controversy and they love to collect forgeries of shakespeare. chapter 6 might interest some people from the west coast or people interested in rivalry because folger was not a

so those who are particularly interested in the business side, in the petroleum side of the folger story, let me recommend chapters three and four. [laughter] so my challenge was to understand and to convey how did folger do it. how did he rise to the top of two fields, the petroleum industry in the world and antiquarian, rare books especially shakespeare and the elizabethark n and the ya coke january period. folgers had no chirp. they had no private yacht the disact them. they had no string of racehorses. they accepted no business luncheons. they had no business receptions in hair home. in their home. they limited their family reunions the twice a year. they were single mindedly devoted to provide. are you familiar with the phrase bar dollar tree? [laughter] the excessive worship of -- [inaudible] the folgers were guilty as charmed. unabashed. although the folgers believed firmly that shakespeare wrote shakespeare, they developed a very important election of book on the authorship controversy. and they loved to collect torglies of shakespeare. chapter six might interest some people from

earlier with the chinese national petroleum corporation, they have a credit line. in the short term they'll be fine. if the sanctions last more than a few months, rosneft could look at the arctic developments. it could take a hit and slow down. the sanctions at the moment are on financing. there's nothing else that would prevent rosneft and russian explorers from continuing. >> yes, there's two spects. wr financing, which is one expect. and we have the technology, as you mentioned we are going into the arctic. that is advanced technological need. that's where a company like exxon or chinese national petroleum corporation come in. you need to partner on the offshore developments. that's where the tricky wart will come in on the long term. rosneft by itself does not have the capabilities to develop arctic offshore abilities. >> why does russia not have the technological abilities. they are an advanced country. >> a lot of the oil and gas areas are offshore, started by gazprom. this is the second. it's the first one offshore, a few kilometres. it's 80 miles offshore.

. >> canada has the world's third largest petroleum reserves.ng it to ports in asia is challenging. a new pipeline project has run into opposition because it will go through untouched wilderness. daniel liak has this report in northwest canada. >> reporter: from canada's land-locked oil sands to the mountainous western shore, the e mvr idge pipe leip is supposed to carry bitumen bound for asia. it got a green light from the federal government in june. but opposition is growing. protesters in the city, rural indigenous people, coastal communities of fishermen and tourist guides all object. >> we have a sustainable forest industry. we have a sustainable fishery. we have a blossoming tourism industry. and everything that northern gateway represents jeopardies all that we are talking about. we don't need to depend upon a product that will destroy the rest of the economy that we already have. >> that opinion resonates here in kitamat, the port at the end of the pipeline. residents have already voted to reject the project and town kill council followe

the board of san francisco to create a policy to prohibit the transcript of fuel materials like petroleum and other in san francisco. and again, we approved the motion to as a full commission to approve working with the port to work on developing the policy. and then we had a report climate consumption inventory we've had discussions will consumption how to help the consumer make wise choices and the head of our staff gave a stock home requirement consumption inventory for san francisco which gave specific quantities of green house gases released for the goods and certifies we consume in san francisco it was useful when we go forward how to educate the customer about carbon related impacts of our purchasing. on june 9th we had a presentation on the stakeholder engagement for the policy construction we've discussed and a presentation from nick from the san francisco unified school district on the school districts sustainability program we found infest the school district is doing a lot of things to promote a sustainability agenda we talked about the ability of the future resolution we send

but promises more than petroleum. >> nickel zinc.a hole host of resources including renewable energy such as tidal and wind as well. >> also opening new shipping routes. each summer tourist cruise ships crowd the northwest passage, a once impanel link between the atlantic and pacific. >>> cargo ships traveling from europe to asia. russia ep sent its first supertanker through the nsr in 2011. predicting 30 million ton of goods could attractive the area each year. despite president putin's claims russia is just one of five nations with clear land rights in the arctic. norway denmark canada and the united states can also claim up to 200 miles off their shores aexclusive economic zones. but beyond that limit the rights to riches beneath the arctic sea is up for grabs. so far, all territorial claims have been settled peacefully, a law of the sea, a treaty the united states shas owners has refused to join. >> all the world where the jurisdictional lines are. and the bedrock of international law in oceans management and embarrassingly the u

to happen if suddenly we're in a middle of a war that w a fleet that is being powered petroleum fired ships and we don't have oil? decision was made by the department of the navy to go out public land some that werereserves still on public land, set them ande from exploration development. in essence, save them in case of future need that the navy isht have in the event there a war and we run short on oil. field ist dome oil essentially in, e wyoming.al of here is the salt creek field. it was an active field at the time of the teapot dome affair. teapot dome navy reserve. little teapot creek flows this way. here is the spot where andot rock is located teapot rock, of course, is how got its name. that particular -- particularat location because nearby through was an oil field. the salt creek oil field was one largest producing oil fields in the world at the early the 20th century. when this reserve was set aside, belief thate area that wass named for this rock that looked teapot at one time. chimney it looks like a rock. at one time, it had a handle, it had a spout. the years, i think i

i will not be able to use my mac without the petroleum. we would not have won world war ii without texas crowd and hemp for that matter. if we have a gusher up there next to the lincoln monument i am cool with that. but that was last century and let's move on to the next thing. the big issue for american farmers now and you colorado residents know that is how do you get your seeds. one would like to think that the employees that work for us and are paid with our tax dollars follow the law of the land, which now says university research is cool in hemp states so and by the way, there is great further hemp legislation in congress that we should be supporting and getting involved in that. and if you want me to get more specific on that. does anybody know the name of the current within the state multiple people are developing seeds including people here tonight. so you can find them within the state rebuilding of the plasm for heme hemp. but the ditch weed in nebraska is still the and hemp's foot long tap roots -- it is an annual plant and has

realizing the vast petroleum potential is proving a challenge for canada. al jazeera.itamin. >> talk about a 1-2 punch, hawaii was virtually shut down after being hit by tropical storm iselle and now residents have to keep an eye out for hurricane julio. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back to "al jazeera america" live from new york city. i am morgan radford. here are today's top stories. palestinians andits israelis act a new deal to begin at 5:00 p.m. eastern time today. an israeli delegation is expected to return to cairo for more talks. kurdish forces appear to be taking advantage of the u.s. air strikes against the islamic state group in northern iraq. today, pershmerga forces say they have driven rebels out of erbil. the third african country to declare a national emergency because of the outbreak. all closing their borders just to stop the spread of that virus. so far, nearly a thousand people have died from the disease. tensions are running high in st. louis missouri after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer just yesterday. well, doz

it is among the world's largest petroleum exporter. people are boasting the united states is producing more petroleum than saudi arabia but that is not important because we use all of it and import more. they only use a little and explore the rest so they are getting a lot of money in the bank and we are not. so that wealth allows the government to bribe people. so sense the revolutions of 2011, the saudi arabia state has increased the perks you get for bogue a citizen. they have free health care, free education, low interest on housing. it is good to be a saudi arabian in some ways. and kuwait as well which is an oil imerate in the gulf. they gave each person $2500 in 2011 to keep them quite. you could get a nice home theater system so he was saying you could have a revolution or you could have a home theater. so far the the people went for the home theater and other perks and quited down. whether they are only quite on the service and bubbling underneath we don't know. and if you asked is egypt on the verge of the explosion they woul

today we saw over four times the average daily volume in marathon petroleum.t they were doing is buying the september 90 calls that's up about 5% by september expiration. that's what the goal is. why might they be doing something like this? they just announced earnings at the end of july they comfort aeblg beat a name trading les then ten times earning on an ebitda basis. both look good on a liss torical valuation, when you take a look at the downstream energy companies like marathon, the thing that matters most is going to be the crack spread. right now the crack spread is trading at a three-month high. >> we can catch more "options action" every day at 5:30. check out our when site at optionsaction.com. >>> you tweeted. guy, what are your thoughts on facebook breaking out of the 73 range? >> facebook traded down to 59. i said it was unjustly punished when the rest of the social media spots got whacked. i thought the last two quarters were fantastic. i got close, i still think it's going there. >> john what are your thoughts on the next tweet. >> when we got

and then i advanced to cleaning tanks that carry liquefied petroleum gas can, all right? and that's exactly the story we element as i am in a beautiful sunny be northern california day in the summer. i am working with money one of my co-workers that i mention in the book, pablo, and i am in charge of fixing the security -- [inaudible] so these tanks wouldn't explode or release all the gases that they carry, lpg. so i am at the top of this 35,000 gallon tanker, and i have a hole about this big, and a big bolt falls into the tank. i tell my coworker, i'm going to go down and get it. talking about arrogance, all right? that's exactly what happened. my friend goes to me, my co-worker, no, no, no, we'll get somebody else. it'll take me a minute. this is when i thought i was at the top physical shape of my life. and i went down, and as you can imagine, i didn't make it back out. but i did try. as i landed at the bottom of this liquified petroleum tank, you know, and i realized that there's no oxygen and i am with my whole equipment, you know, steel-toed boots, big overalls, a l

it is also, however, among -- it is the world's largest petroleum exporters. producing more petroleum than. that actually is not very important because we use most of it. we use all that and then import more. the saudis use a little bit of it and then export all the rest. they're putting a lot of money in the bank, which we're not. so that wealth allows the government to bribe people. so since the revolutions of 2011, the saudi state has substantially increased the purchase you get for being a saudi citizen. you know, free health care, education, very low interest loans on houses and all kinds of things. it's good to be a saudi. and so kuwait as well come in the gulf, the emir give each person $2,500 in 2011 to, you know, keep them quiet. so you could get our really nice home theater system. you could have a revolution or you can have a home theater. so so far the people in the oil states have gone further on theater or the other perks. they have quieted down. but whether things are on the quiet on the surface and a bubbling underneath, we don't know. if he we

they signed a few deals, ideal earlier this year with the chinese national petroleum corporation andy have credit line as well. so i think in the short-term they should be fine. but you are right, if these sanctions should last more than a few months or two to three years, i think they could look -- arctic developments could take a hit and slow down stan shaly. >> the only hankse hankses are n financing, am i right? there is nothing he is that prevents russian explorers and developers from continues something. >> yeah, there are two aspects. financing is one aspect and we have the technology as well, as you mentioned we are going in to the arctic, going offshore, that's quite an advanced technological needs right there. that's where companies like exxon and chinese national petroleum corporation come n you need to partner on those large offshore developments. and that's i think where the tricky part will come in in the long-term that russia by itself does not have the technological capabilities to develop resoreses by itself. >> why does russia not have these technological abilities?

realizing its vast petroleum potential is a challenge for canada. >> time for sport. >> thank you so much. play has just gotten underway in the final round of the pga championships. it has been delayed for two hours due to water logged conditions in kentucky. we take look at fine round where roar. >> mcilroy takes the lead. the leader board going into the final days, on saturday, the northern irish man birdied three of the last four holes. >> golf was once condemned as a bourgeois past time, but chinese are taking up the sport in record numbers. >> it could already boast about the world's biggest golf resort and the there are hundreds more courses to come if current growth forecasts are accurate. china likes its golf. >> there are more young people playing and it's becoming more popular since becoming an olympic sport. >> weekends are always busy on the course, but even weekdays, there are more people playing. >> growing an impressive 10% a year, it's estimated china is now a country of 1 million golfers. that's still huge potential for growth, especially when it's so easy. >> making

a fire breaks out at a liquified petroleum filling station in 1998.n site are hundreds of tanks that could explode, and a tanker truck ready to blow sky-high. thousands are evacuated from the densely packed city neighborhood as firefighters use water to try to cool down the canisters and keep them from rupturing. tv news crews on the ground and in the air record the chaotic scene as the fire grows bigger, but what the camera can't see is massive underground storage tanks filled with tons of the highly flammable liquid gas that is used to fuel cars. the inferno rages out of control. there's nothing firefighters can do. the tanks keep catching fire. finally, the flames reach the indian ground tanks, and they ignite. a massive fireball launches into the air. the enormous blast consumes an entire city block and is felt for miles. thick smoke consumes the entire sky. dozens of vehicles are scorched by the inferno, and several nearby buildings are set on fire. police report 30 people, eight of them firefighters are injured during the disaster. incredibly, t

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construction of an airport and petroleum projects on the island's north coast including drilling for new oil and vast volume offshore deposits. next stop argentina. president putin visited the arch argentinian president and signed agreements with her involving the massive russian atomic corporation. >> president obama's belief this is not a cold war, a new one, is that wishful thinking? >> no it is not. there is not a new cold war. putin is playing in our backyard because we are in his backyard. he doesn't want a new cold war. he and angela merkel are working to cut off aid to the separatists of ukraine in return of his recognition of the ownership of the crimian peninsula. after that russia comes in from the cold. europeans don't want russia in the cold. i don't want russia in the cold. putin doesn't want to stay in the cold. i believe he sees his future with the west. i think down there they are playing games. >> putin is in our backyard because he can. he sees the u.s. in his backyard and he wants to let us know how it feels. he'll sign sweet heart deals for the recipients. just l

and occidental petroleum is a blue chip that is very well known.iz: pavel, great to see you, picks on facebook.com/liz claman. >>> tesla has hit a potential speed bump just months after the unusual consumer magazine, "consumer reports" gave model s sedan a near-perfect score. 99 out of 100. now after driving a tesla for 10,000 miles, "consumer reports" says the car has, quote, more than its share of problems. a center screen went blank, it eliminated drivers' access, automatic retracting door handles. edmunds.com is reporting few problems with model s car, faulty main battery pack, frozen touch screen and trouble opening the sun roof. the problems were fixed under warranty. in a statement, tesla said, quote, we are particularly attentive in addressing potential issues if they appear to have minor or low likelihood of causing future problems. tesla stock closed at record high yesterday after an upgrade by deutsche banc. it was down flat. it shows there is real resilience for the company which is up 17% over the past year. i have a friend i know who

some in the community feel petroleum pollution is making them ill. i'll find out more. >> in sport, a 15-year-old produces a huge shock at the u.s. open. sanaa will have the details later. . >> world health organisation has closed a laboratory in sierra leone, after a health worker became infected with ebola. this leaves one remaining lab in the country where almost 400 died from the virus. the number of cases and deaths have been underestimated. latest figures show 607 cases, and 406 deaths in guinea since the outbreak started in march. liberia recorded the largest number of cases. 1,082. 624 of those have died of the virus. >> sierra leone, 910 people have caught the virus. of those, 392 have died. in nigeria, there has been 16 cases with five deaths. we have this report. >>> another blow in the fight against ebola. one of two labs used by the who in sierra leone has been closed after a medic caught the virus. more than 224 health care workers have been infected. half died. the u.n. says the outbreak is having a devastating effect on poorly resourc

poisoned by the petroleum industry or not.here's no doubt these waters are causing fear for some in this community. fear from swimming, eating fish from the lake, fear that just being here could give you cancer. >>> i'm david foster, and we have this coming up, counting their chickens, why brazil's pull try farmers could benefit from the crisis in ukraine. >>> and a call from lebron james helps cleveland sign a new star. we have the details, stay with us here on the news hour. ♪ vé ♪ >> you are watching the al jazeera news hour. these are our top stories. palestinians in gaza have been trying to assess the damage that has been caused over the last seven weeks. hamas says it is a victory. israel says hamas could have accepted the same deal offered a month ago. >>> in afghanistan both presidential candidates of pulled out of the audit into the disputed election results. abdullah abdullah has described the effort as a joke. and a formal investigation has been launched into a long-running case about a $500 million-plus payment to

realising vast petroleum position is proving a challenge for canada. >> all right. rebecca steve son is here with the weather. i'm trying to get my open sneak peek. >> we are looking at the temperatures deciding where is hot and where is the cooler side. looking at the u.s., you can see we are in the '80s, and low 90s. that's close to sea level. if you go up, you'll have cooler temperatures. for the first part of august we are getting to day 10, and we can see above the normal mark are places in the west. seattle - 3.5 inches above the normal mark. we get to the east coast. it's also wetter in the areas that are cooler. in large part thanks to cloud cover. but the warmer temperatures into the west, where we are dealing with drought and dry conditions going up in flames. this photo taken by a firefighter, looking at two different fires and the smoke plumes in the air. impressive. these have been contained at the time. in washington state we have had the largest wildfire on record. this fire, the photo from this, is one that is just about 10 miles to the west of the f

it's among the world's -- it is the world's largest petroleum exporter.eople are now boasting the united states, you know, is producing more petroleum than saudi arabia. that actually is not very important because we use most of it, or we use all of it, and then we import some more. the saudis only use a little bit of it, and then they export all the rest which means they're getting a lot of money in the bank which we are not. .. the paid people to keep some client. be $2,500. you could get a really nice home theater system but it was saying, you could have a revolution, or you can have a home theater so far that people in the oil states have gone for the home theater and have quieted. whether things are only clients on the surface, we don't, no. if you would ask my sex earths they would have certain who lou. so things could still to change a lot. at the moment is now seems so. >> the radical islamist fundamentalist, the people palm aren't they also young people? the question is whether the radical groups in new in cerium and and so forth are also you

registered locations businesses that had scanners we we used the scales from our dies from our gas petroleums to begin the process of identifying the businesses with point of sale stations we sent out 2 thousand invoices in 2011. and we got a subsequential number of them we sent out a letter in multiple languages to try to explain what we were doing. that was we know there are more than 2 thousand so the following year if you go to the mid of that page you'll see that we decided to go to the sf data po s 5 hundred and 54 thousand businesses that's unreasonable that's the entire we can't do that so we ended up encouraging as many as we could we ended up in 2012 sending out well - let me back up in 2012, we sent out over 2 thousand invoices and then we obtained an sf data source there was that was unreasonable to building we had 5 hundred and 54 thousand. i put everybody that i had on cleaning up the list. and that will be reflected and you'll see how much more we spent in 2012. so in 13 we sent out 15 thousand plus invoices we got over half of them back. it was boxes and boxes of them that wer

people are now boasting the united states is producing more petroleum than saudi arabia.hat actually is not very important because we use most of it, or we use all of it, and then we import some more. the saudis only use a little of it and they export all the rest which means they're getting money in the bank, and we are not. and so that wealth allows the government with to bribe people. so since b the revolutions -- since the revolutions of 2011, the saudi state has substantially increased the perks that you get from being a saudi citizen. and, you know, they have free health care and education through the ph.d. and very low interest loans on houses and all kinds of things. it's good to be a saudi in many ways. and so, and kuwait as well which is an oil emirates in the gulf. the emir just gave people, each person, $2500 in 2011 to, you know, keep them quiet. so it's sort of, you know, $2500 you could get a really nice home theater system. so the emir was saying you could have a revolution, or you could have a home theater. [laughter] so so far the people in the oil state

. >> once it got to the products, typically the mineral oil and the hydrocarbon based products petroleumcts, that's going to light off and continue until there's no more fire load. >> fireballs explode while a thick black blanket of smoke spews hundreds of feet in the air. the morning sky grow so dark local resident chris dillinger believes a storm is brewing on the horizon. >> at first i thought, man, is that a rain cloud? i thought the skies were clear. i take a second look. that's not a rain cloud at all. it's absolutely huge. that's crazy. this is insane. absolutely enormous clouds. the first thing that pops in your mind is somebody's house is on fire. then you realize, oh, that's not a house. that's something a lot bigger. look at that, dude. >> i doesn't even look real. >> no, it don't look real. >> like we're sitting here looking at some crazy -- >> local firefighters attempt to get the blaze under control, but their numbers are no match for an inferno of this magnitude. >> they do not have a full-time haz-mat team like we have here in dallas. so when we received the mutual aid ca

believe if it's going to be a benefit i'll do it and i accept that i have other device and gas petroleums and scales and weigh masters and have the wealthy masters it treat all the grod gold buyers and balance the activity but because this proposal in 2010 was adapt and you had to implement the program. >> right. >> i directed resources to it. >> i'm assuming the resources you have to direct are the distraction from the other activities that you have to do this is. >> - >> the less energy you spend on wealthy and goals for example, this is additional stuff and you're under staffed; is that correct. >> currently there is only so many hours. >> so for some reason this disappeared as a responsibility that will be fine you could allocate additional resources to the things that are currently on your - >> (laughter). >> that's not going on our document. >> i'm not asking you to tell me to get rid of this (laughter). >> no, i'm not in disagreement with you. >> i have to go do this. >> commissioner riley. >> i have a question on the $3.7 million saving for the consumer on the second page of the l

in petroleum-poor jordan oil shale reserves are available in 28 locations. among the richest is a government in the southern province. the reserves were discovered around a century ago. no extraction took place. >> the main reason for not exploiting oil shale reserves in jordan and else were is the price of oil. over the years the price of oil dropped to levels with investing in oil shale is not feasible. nowadays at $100 per barrel. the conditions are ripe for investing in oil shale. >> several international companies signed multi billion contracts to start capitalizing on jordan's oil shale. production could start as early as 2017. >> jordan's $70 billion tonnes of reserves are the fourth largest in the world. the country has been importing 96% of its energy needs at the cost of over one-fifth of its g.d.p. for decades. jordan used to rely on a supply of affordable natural gas for a decade before the egyptian resolution. of since the pipe line has been sabotaged. this put the government in a desperate situation to expedite oil shale agreements. each tonne

oil and gas, individual companies gave us a briefing from british petroleum, from tim smith, the vice president. 41 billion barrels produced at 2012. potentially 27 billion barrels yet to produce, beyond 2050. so if the industry estimate is up to 24 billion, and if major companies are saying 27 million. they they not bring themselves to realize that whether it is 16.5 billion in 2050, whether it is 27 billion confront 2050, that is many, many bills of barrels of oil and in wholesale terms worth trillions of pounds. every country in the world would believe that is a tremendous asset. why would the labor party believe it is a liability? >> with all due respect to the first minister, that is not why sir ian said he felt the need at this critical time to speak out. sir ian has no worlds left to conquer. he is not trying to win any votes. he just wants the scottish people to know the facts before they make this irreversible decision the throughout this whole debate, the first minister has twisted facts and simply closed his ears to inning that doesn't fit his life-long obsession of indepen

iran cut off petroleum exports to the united states.merica felt it was held hostage by dependence on foreign oil. as the price of a gallon of gas passed a dollar, congress debated closing off 100 million alaskan acres to mineral exploitation. the bill would double our national park system. alaska congressman don young was outraged. how selfish and ridiculous can we be when we think we can live within ourselves? we have billions of people in asia alone, south america is suffering from starvation, and we're going to set aside 175 million acres of land for a playground that has all the minerals and oil and resources-- timber and hydropower? that's asinine! other congressmen saw the issue in more personal terms. arizona congressman mo udall. the most important thing to me is that it's there. you get a real lift from getting out of the artificial world and being with nature. not only oil lay beneath the tundra. minerals vital to national defense were being imported from the third world while unknown quantities waited in alaska. the amounts w

situation where the city and county of san francisco owns a lot of land and has wells that will petroleum from that aqua to supplement the hetch hetchy system i'm sure you have mitigation measures in place, in fact, back to the dazed of the spring valley water company i assume this is a somewhat similar situation. >> i'm not as informed apparently as you but we have members from the puc that can speak to that other situation. >> well, i guess my point this is not the situation points been going on for a long time and i assume it's been dealt with with success i grew up in that area and don't hear complaints that the ac what has being somewhat similar. >> i can't speak to the speculators but sure the commission that the impacts to other eir garters will be mitigated to less than significant levels with the measures outlined in the eir. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner antonini. >> unless dollars others commissioner, i think we can approve parts ab together. >> yes. commissioner antonini the dpaupt of the sequa and the adaptation of referral. >> i will move that 13 a and b. >> commission