to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability drilling was eliminating a moratorium on shale development in the united states now shale development in the United
around from issue to issue, from day to day, as if the previous day hadn't happened, as if the previous problem hadn't happened. So all of a sudden, everybody’s concerned about oil drilling and the dangers of oil drilling , offshore oil drilling . Whereas the problems that created the conditions that led to the Gulf of Mexico being inundated with oil had been there for years. And if you look back, if you go back and look at
from being an ecological disaster to being an ecological model model and have some very Advanced Technologies in terms of deep sea Drilling and so forth that's become very relevant in the last couple of years so all examples of things that we might not expect and yet uh which are out there and I'd submit that within your own world there are dozens of
Lawrence Lessig: And of course, it was Congress that had required these fast track approval processes, leading again to the question, "What would ever convince them that fast track approval on experimental drilling wells made sense?" Lots of possible answers to that question. The one thing we know is endless campaign cash driving to this conclusion.
of war. So this is Carter warning about national catastrophe. in mountaintop removal mining or going out into deep water oil drilling leading to the disastrous spill that took place in the Gulf, a whole variety
But on the other hand, it's creating connections again. fishing, more oil drilling , more fracking, more everything, more discharge of waste.
commentator: So one thing you didn't mention in the discussion of methanol, which I think is very relevant, is the fact that in the last five or ten years we've seen a revolution in natural gas production in the United States with horizontal drilling and shale gas. If you look on the Web you can find maps of the U.S. with shale gas deposits that are really quite striking. Now there's some environmental issues with respect to extraction here, but
to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability moratorium back and the the moratorium on offshore drilling was put in place for a number of reasons but let me just
to the oil that is left and I would argue in the same time block our ability before we get any meaningful amount of oil from offshore drilling that's because it is in the words of a chevron offshore drilling expert I quote in here
I'm sure many of you, when you saw these images, had a question in the back of your head. How was it that it's possible to launch such an experimental drilling platform, as the Deepwater Horizon, without extensive environmental impact and risk studies? All right. In my part of the country, we've just spent nine years and ten thousand pages of environmental impact studies to permit the construction of this green energy technology.
government is insuring our nuclear power plants what's interesting is we've never stopped and said well are we willing to insure all our wind farms are we willing to insure all our geothermal drilling companies who are out there working with a lot of risks in their environment the answer is no so what's what's interesting is I wanted people to have a
500,000 members but we never hear from them in the media uh there's also a group called Republicans for Environmental Protection and I met three members in Dallas and they oppose offshore oil drilling they would never be caught instead driving a Hummer they drive recycle in a lot of towns in Texas they don't have curbside recycling so they
awarding Guantanamo terrorists with Constitutional Rights, putting the interests of the teachers' union ahead of the needs of our children, stopping nuclear power plants and offshore drilling , making us more and more dependent on Middle Eastern tyrants and replacing opportunity with dependency on government largesse.
Let's move to Alberta, Canada, and look at some of the things happening around the tar sands. To be able to answer things like, what is the rate of change of the drilling wells?
All right. In my part of the country, we've just spent nine years and ten thousand pages of environmental impact studies to permit the construction of this green energy technology. So, exactly how much was required before they were able to build the experimental deep water drilling platform, which was the Deepwater Horizon? The answer is 17 pages before they were exempted from any further need for review, leading
failures at it, well you know that's--that's when we start scorning them. But we would have been perfectly happy tossing them little treats as long as they kept doing it anyway. looking at the full extent of our--our supply chain. Where drilling is happening, what happens, people die doing it. And that's actually true all the time, it's just not a big enough news
This is physical infrastructure in the ocean. When you look out in the ocean off the coast of California, you see almost none of this physical infrastructure because thereís moratorium in oil drilling . The Gulf of Mexico is a very different story and the waters of a lot of countries around the world is a very different story in terms of oil exploration This is changing the way
when I've followed, you know, any like the Pat Tillman story that you had on which was absolutely, absolutely brilliant. I subsequently saw the, uh, Pat Tillman documentary at sun, uh, since lost some hope with respect to decisions such as corporate bailouts, and Alaska oil drilling , and escalation of the war in Afghanistan. What would you say to us who have lost hope
when I've followed, you know, any like the Pat Tillman story that you had on which was absolutely, absolutely brilliant. I subsequently saw the, uh, Pat Tillman documentary at sun, Amy Goodman: Um, on the issue of, like of oil drilling is, of course, grave concern as we look at what's happening off the coast of Louisiana.