they will be called. they re going to show up to our committee in september. it is appalling that every other industry has shown up to congress. tech ceos, defense contractors, the pharmaceutical industry, the wall street industry. who do these fossil fuel executives think they are that they don t have to show up in congress? that s going to change. we are prepare today use whatever tool is necessary. they will be showing up and answers the questions of congress. isn t the fact that who they think they are are the people who own the united states and own the government and they feel like they re in complete ownership of not just republicans but some democrats in oily states. oily states. coalish, i guess would be the word, states. any state dependent on the extraction industry. this is a playbook we have seen before. this is exactly what the tobacco companies did. they knew all along nicotine was addictive. they just wouldn t tell anybody. exxon, their document, there s
short version was the american corporations that do business in the extraction industry, oil and diamonds, have to reveal the payments they make to foreign governments. everybody in here get what that s really about? right, rex tillerson, i ve heard that name, said at the time, terrible, terrible. can t do that. if you do, that we won t be able to do business in russia. think about that. and so we finally get this regulation through that says doesn t say they can t do it. all it says is you ve got to be public about it. you re going to have to tell, which frankly means the locals will know about it, and the rest of the world community will know about it. what happened? one of the first bills we do just rolls that back so they can continue to keep those payments secret. i still remember going to the floor to talk about what the
creator. and it s jobs that are being put front and center by republican candidates for president like jeb bush who this week made fracking a centerpiece of his energy plan. it s perhaps the most common refrain of proponents of fracking. what is not often mentioned, however, the jobs created through fracking can be quite dangerous. last year the fatality rate for oil and gas extraction workers was almost five times the national average across all industries. now, a new documentary from the lightning rod director josh fox talks to workers who spent years in the oil and gas extraction industry. fox follows the story of a young man, charles c.j. bechbz, who died in 2011 working at an oil and gas drilling site in central new york. bevins died after being crushed to death by a forklift. osha eventually found that lift operator was not trained in the safe operation of the rough terrain forklift and did not have any certification or documentation of proficiency. according to environment energ
look at that. 26.3% since october first. and that is having a big effect. we we re back with the panel. george? putin s varies with his position. his position is suffering terrific economic damage by southern ohio and north dakota and other places like that that are producing this guiser of oil that is sur planting russia as the principle producer of petroleum products. the reevictions i think restrictions we put on the banking forms having an effect also. demonstrating to the world and good to learn this again, is that russia is a third world economy with first world missiles. there is no consumer product except vodka and caviar. they make nothing. they have a hunter gatherer economy which is to say they are primmives. they extract things, including eggs from fish for caviar. it s a simple extraction
them believe that they will pick up and leave if this suit were to go forward. this is a function of pollution. the oil and gas industry have had a free ride in louisiana. they built all those canals in the wetlands, rachel, that polluted the wetlands with saltwater and with oil field runoff that has destroyed that wetlands. they know it. they left the canals open. it allowed the saltwater to come in. it helped deteriorate the wetlands. they ve also left 6,000 abandoned oil wells in louisiana, many of them in that wetlands. and they have exposed pipelines because the pipelines are exposed because we ve lost the soil and we have rising seas. they know that this extraction industry, this energy industry know that they have created this damage. they did not want this to go to court because in the court it will reveal even more the amount of damage that they ve caused in louisiana. and they had the money to buy the vote.