it was something called tar sands oil. it was being transported from canada, and as it turns out, we have no freaking clue how to clean up tar sands oil when that spills. crude oil generally floats to the top of it water where some of it can be scrapes off. tar sands oil sinks to the bottom of whatever it's in. how do you get it off the bottom of a riverbed? good question. they saw their pristine river turned into a test bed for how to clean up the oil spills. the best they could come up with was to literally shake the river bed, to agitate the river bed with big machines in order to try to make the oil temporarily rise to the top where they could get at it. sorry, michigan, that's all we've got. ultimately, the people who lived along the kalamazoo river didn't have to wait one month, two months, four months, five months, six months. it took the oil company two years to clean up the mess they made in michigan. that oil spill happened in july 2010. it was not until three weeks ago this year that the kalamazoo river reopened

pipeline of the tar sands in canada and another about the three storms that you mentioned there is no connection. to the tar sands here is that when the largest pools of our planet get environments tradition and hard destruction can are really trying to charge ahead with developing nations at the same time we're seeing the impacts of climate change play out and yet when you look at any of these stories are running in parallel instead of being connected now thankfully it's happening here and there i think that the impacts are getting so it's all. weather is getting so strange that the media can't help but the forests to begin to connect those dots you know your broadcast or here and there your weather map here or there it's beginning to make those connections and i think seeing that the public is hungry for the media to play that role to scientists to explain what's happening but yeah that hasn't happened yet at all and it's one of the places where i think the public needs to stand up and demand that type of coverage and demand that level of seriousness from our media or a public offic

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tar sands oil is not like regular crude oil. it sinks. doesn't float on the top. it sinks, and it sank to the bottom of the kalamazoo. so the company spent two years trying to invent new ways to clean it up, how to shake it loose from the bottom of the riverbed so they could wipe it up on the surface with the old bad technology. the name of the company that owned the pipeline is enbridge. the federal government fined enbridge more than $3 million, which is roughly lunch money for a company with annual revenue in the hundreds of millions. two years after enbridge's disaster on the kalamazoo river, two years almost to the day, look at what's happened now. another enbridge pipe has burst. this time in wisconsin. the spill happened on friday in a field. the "milwaukee journal sentinal" reporting, quote, one horse and one cow in the pasture apparently were the only eyewitnesss to the geyser that sprayed up oil 1,000 feet southwest of the pipeline. along with the horse and the cow, enbridge noticed this time that something had gone wrong, so they did shut off the pipeli

this one is only a major issue because it is dealing with the car had in canadian tar sands.o the canadian government a lot more than talking to the mmc about where they are rung the pipeline. i'm sure the oil i don't mean canada is coming outs of the ground whether we pipe it in the united states or not. >> but you talk about tar sands and get the stuff from alberta, canada, down through the southern states. the global warming question is, this is symbolic of the ecological balance between exploitation of fossil fuels with production of energy and looking for alternative sources. there's no discourse on the alternative sources with the gas submissions and all that. the economy just wants to tap the gas, but they don't want to talk about what happened -- >> that judgment is later. >> we'll talk it broadly. what happens to the environment and government. it's not a correlation between the heat we are feeling now but it is a big question that brought up the discussion. >> environmentalists do not like the tar sands, but the president has already caved on that. this is going to

have been making the last few years is with the whatic oil and coal, with hi is going on with the tar sandsth the shell oil and gas in the western united states, we're talking hundreds of years of fossil fuel driven in the u.s.. practicalmoral and question. >> subhankar banerjee, yet in ae thiyear have been at this fr long time reader talk about your personal story of what happened to at the exhibit at the smithsonian featuring your work. >> during president bush's a ministration, his top energy board was to open a refugee to well drilling. at that time, it was the largest public plant and u.s. history. it is a combination of human rights issues of the alaskan people, that any member used boat with [unintelligible] and activist in copenhagen. my first book came out in 2003. barbara boxer used my photographs at the smithsonian. my exhibit was immediately censored. all the photographs were taken now. >> why was it censored? >> the word oil was not even mention, but just the fear because senator barbara boxer used my image during a senate debate and won. that made it very political. >> for our

. >> tar sands, will drilling, disasters around the world. >> the mock award ceremony at the olympicck in trafalgar square descended into force after police arrested six people taking part. three people pretending to be corporate representatives from bp, down, and rio tinto were awarded gold medals for been the worst corporate sponsors of the olympics before having small quantities of cream custard poured over their heads. the good nature performance took about 15 minutes, clearly amusing to a number of passerbys until 25 police officers arrived and arrested six people, including the three corporate representatives and people who are mopping up the small amounts of custard on the ground. for more we go to london where we're joined by jules boykoff, says a professor of political science at pacific university and curley a visiting scholar at the university of brighton. he was born in england or has been in england since april following the build up to the olympics. he is writing a book on dissent and the olympics. he played for the u.s. olympic soccer team in international competition

in tar sands production.ica, so north american supplies, north american crude oil supplies are in very, very, very good shape and the u.s. refining capacity has continued to debottleneck in response to historically high prices and margins. >> the shale story is just so incredible. in fact, you're saying nat gas could go to $1, is that possible? tell me under what circumstances do we see nat gas fall further than what we've seen so far? >> i think the dollar is unlikely but it's possible. what will happen this summer if we don't have a hot summer and don't use natural gas in terms of electricity demand we're running out of places to put it. our ability to produce it has exceeded our ability regionally to transport it and certainly to store it. if you're a natural gas producer you have the up front capital costs in the well, you produce that well and when you produce that well you have to make the gas go away. it hasn't been a challenge for the last 15 years but it's beginning to be a challenge now as a consequ

the politics of the pipeline is from the underlying questions of climate change regulation, the tar sandsare the oils and in the global oil market. recently the keystone pipeline is a continuation of earlier. they're just trying to attack the problem. look, even the environmentalists would admit, i am sure that if they could not a universal price on carbon as a basis for addressing climate change and global warming they would come of that they fail to do that. so now they're looking understandably to keep the issue of life by looking for opportunities to call attention to the problem and keep challenging the status quo appears to be sure you send the oil sands because it's available, not because they are solutions to global warming. but they certainly made an example. and basically they are trying to leverage the unpopularity of pipeline of general and not in my background politics to kind of keep the issue moving. and from canada's dave, i'm sure it's aggravating from the oil industry's it's definitely aggravating because the pipeline that would otherwise make economic sense is punished

intensive engineering intensive projects, big offshore projects, shell, the gulf of mexico, or the tar sands project in canada. that is their business. this north american business is largely independents. some of the majors are looking at this. this is a big resource plate. independents run their business for production growth. it is a different model and a real shot edge -- a real challenge. ed, do you want to touch on the support? >> my feeling is it does not change dates as much as people would like or as quickly would like. susan pointed out the somali piracy problem has not been solved. just pick up what it would be like if we did not share that responsibility. this is the beginning of our experiment. we have not done this thing very much before. it would be interesting to see how that goes. it is a shared irresponsibility with our traditional allies as well, but in a time of plenty, it allows you to think more about the shared protection of the global commons people we were once concerned about as their power inevitably, i would submit, increases in places like india and china. the tr

republicans can stick their heads in the tar sands all they want, but pumping more fossil fuels out of the ground and into the atmosphere will not sustain the american economy nor provide the kind of economic prosperity that will benefit all americans. as i have said before and i repeat again, i'll be the class person standing against drilling in the offshore of florida. at the same time, preventing the federal government from acting on behalf of public health and safety will not create new jobs. it won't return the unemployment rate to 6%, and it won't send a signal to the american public that their elected representatives are abling minding public reform. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentlelady from north carolina is recognized. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. i just would like to point out to my colleague from florida that we certainly agree on our side of the aisle with governor romney that we need regulations. these bills don't do away with all regulations. we obviously, republicans know you need government.

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sands of pensacola beach and it looked like the entire beach was covered. well he, that shot around the world and people started canceling vacations. only a few tar balls got as far east as panama city beach, and the rest of the gulf coast beaches all the way down to the southern tip of florida, no oil. but the tourists stopped coming. and when the tourists stopped coming, there's nobody in the hotels, and the hotel workers can't work. there's nobody in the restaurants, and all of those workers aren't working. and all the ancillary businesses that depend on that major component of the economy. and then of course the seafood industry, the source of a third of our domestic seafood in this country, the gulf of mexico -- of course the fishing industry was devastated. and even those that could fish outside of the danger zone of where the oil was lurking, people stopped buying gulf seafood because they were afraid that it was tainted. and even when the oil was finally shut off after three months, the gulf was left with this public perception that the gulf was tainted. well, you remember the president asked the secretary of the navy, ray maybus to recom