habitat. florida, more than 90% restoring beaches, wildlife, oysters and sport fishing. what is alabama doing wrong here? well, they re not rebuilding their ecosystem. aaron viles of gulf restoration network says what alabama is proposing is not restoration. this is an economic development project. reporter: they re going to make money off this? absolutely. somebody has to be hired and build it and design it. if you re talking about that, yes, there is an economic development component of it. but it s restoration project addressing injury. the state s going to be making money off this. when you say the state is making money reporter: people paying for hotel rooms and conference space. well yeah, sure, the state we should. we lost people coming to our coast. reporter: but there could be other losses as well. you are doing more harm than
their ecosystem. aaron viles of gulf restoration network says what alabama is proposing is not restoration. this is an economic development project. reporter: they re going to make money off this? absolutely. somebody has to be hired and build it and design it. if you re talking about that, yes, there is an economic development component of it. but it s restoration project addressing injury. the state s going to be making money off this. when you say the state is making money reporter: people paying for hotel rooms and conference space. well yeah, sure, the state we should. we lost people coming to our coast. reporter: but there could be other losses as well. you are doing more harm than good-bye plop be down a huge beach front development on
here? well, they re not rebuilding their ecosystem. aaron viles of gulf restoration network says what b alabama is proposing is not restoration. this is an economic development project. reporter: they re going to make money off this? absolutely. somebody has to be hired and build it and design it. if you re talking about that, yes, there is an economic development component of it. but it s restoration project addressing injury. the state s going to be making money off this. when you say the state is making money reporter: people paying for hotel rooms and conference space. well yeah, sure, the state we should. we lost people coming to our coast. reporter: but there could be other losses as well. you are doing more harm than good-bye plop be down a huge beach front development on important habitat. reporter: one example, endangered alabama beach mice, the only place in the world you find them is on this coast. they don t co-exist well with
viles. what s wrong with putting it into the ocean? hasn t it helped the cleanup? tell us what s wrong with this. well, dispersants has been explicitly about a tradeoff. you re trading off marine impacts for coastal impacts. you can break up the oil and keep it from getting to shore. the problem is that they ve been usi using dispersants in a very unprecedented way. rather than putting it at the surface, they ve been injecting it at the well head a mile down below the surface. so we don t know much about that ecosystem except for it s very important. and so the dispersant oil interaction is having impacts on the marine ecosystem. we don t know what those impacts are and marine biologists are very concerned, it s significant it s going to be long lasting and significant decrease in productivity in the gulf of mexico. aaron, here s something that congressman ed marky, a democrat from massachusetts wrote in a letter to thad allen on friday.
video of the leak but company officials will only tell us that they ll look into it. but environmentalists and scientists say bp s unwillingness to share this video highlights a bigger problem with the company s response to the oil spill. and the critics say that s a lack of transparency about the extent of the disaster. aaron viles is with an environmentaled a have cass say group called the group restoration network. they ve been critical of the oil spill. why do you think we haven t seen much of that video yet? if i had to guess, it s that bp doesn t exactly want the public to see what s happening. they want to control the message and the information but the public needs to see what s. aing both at the surface and at the seafloor. reporter: on monday we asked bp officials again about releasing the video. once again, they said they would look into it. but bp insists this isn t about controlling the message. we re being extraordinarily open and transz transparent, whether it s ou