. >> taha y matej a piece of video of michael copps last week talking about potential conditions on the merger and get your response. >> i would hope if there's going to be a majority of the commission that it's going to approve of this and we would be obviously looking at market by market and with the messengers might be calling for that is certainly important. i think certainly the open internet and network neutrality is important and looking at the level of concentration in the market power across the board is important. it comes back to all of the considerations that go into deciding whether there's a public-interest convenience and necessity and that is ever charged and pretty wide-ranging charge we have under the statute and i hope we will fulfill that. >> commissioner? >> i served almost five years with mike copps and have known and even longer than that and have a high regard of respect for him so she's absolutely right. when he says our standards are the public interest standard that's what congress told us we need to do, sort of a roll standard different from the antitrust age

want to ask you about the article the cornell university researchers cannot with recently that try to taha will get the impact of the trucking and the fugitive methane and carbon dioxide and other initial finding was that natural-gas is worse than cold in terms of its greenhouse gas footprint over a 20 year period roughly equal to call over 100 footprints which is a real surprise to many of us and is this an issue that epa are analyzing and looking at? >> we've had a voluntary program working with companies to tighten up their system to reduce fugitive emissions of methane which is the natural gas. however this study which i don't think has actually been published yet although it's been discussed in the newspapers and the basic outlines of it are available is an important piece of information we need to bring into the discussion. if it indeed is some leakage out of the system these are generally problems that can be addressed through proper controls or through collection controls at the wellhead so i think it needs to be taken into account. the other issue i mentioned earlier on the clean

want to ask you about the article the cornell university researchers cannot with recently that try to taha will get the impact of the trucking and the fugitive methane and carbon dioxide and other initial finding was that natural-gas is worse than cold in terms of its greenhouse gas footprint over a 20 year period roughly equal to call over 100 footprints which is a real surprise to many of us and is this an issue that epa are analyzing and looking at? >> we've had a voluntary program working with companies to tighten up their system to reduce fugitive emissions of methane which is the natural gas. however this study which i don't think has actually been published yet although it's been discussed in the newspapers and the basic outlines of it are available is an important piece of information we need to bring into the discussion. if it indeed is some leakage out of the system these are generally problems that can be addressed through proper controls or through collection controls at the wellhead so i think it needs to be taken into account. the other issue i mentioned earlier on the clean

those are issues that remain to be determined but i think that as time goes on taha we are gaining more confidence. >> you are encouraging other countries to recognize and support the tnc? >> even though we haven't reached the point where we are -- we made the determination that we would be in our interest to recognize them eight may be that the blacks say the constraints of other countries to do that may well be to recognize the more to give -- if them more support, for simple, closed down the gadhafi in the seas and allow tnc to four examples to push interest office of some kind as we have done here so that's what i meant by that. >> if it is true that it's doing and saying all the right things and basically transform tnc into this city people are frolicking in the streets and reading poetry to each other and doing things like that, why not? i want to get off the recognition thing but why are we seeing them only getting uniforms and radios and not some kind of substantial economic aid other than just the aid relief? >> let's take the view -- >> if you had lived in libya february 16th

want to ask you about the article the cornell university researchers cannot with recently that try to taha will get the impact of the trucking and the fugitive methane and carbon dioxide and other initial finding was that natural-gas is worse than cold in terms of its greenhse gas footprint over a 20 year riod roughly equal to call over 100 footprints which is a real surpre to many of us and is this an issue that epa are analyzing and looking at? >> we've had a voluntary program working with companies to tighten up their system to duce fugitive emissionsof methane which is the natural gas. however this study which i don't think has actually been published yet although it's been discussed in the newspapers and the basic outlines of it are available is an important piece of information we need to bring into the discussion. if it indeed is some leakage out of the system these are generally problems that can be addressed through proper controls or through collection controls at the wellhead so i think it needs to be tak into account. the other iue i mentioned earlier on the clean air, the same