to marine conservationist rick steiner, who joins us from anchorage. good evening. how are you? more diskournlgcouraged on t the new drilling method, frequent gas kicks, put extra pressure on pipes and well casings. does that sound like the drilling that s already happening all over the world? well, yeah. extended reach drilling has gone on in various places throughout the world. there s no question about that. because there hasn t been a catastrophic blowout doesn t mean that one cannot occur. i mean, look back three or four months on the deepwater horizon and all the deepwater drilling in the gulf of mexico. until then, until deepwater horizon blew up, they had a pretty good safety record out there until they didn t. the same thing with 8,700 tanker trips out of prince william