Over one million americans are still without clean, safe Drinking Water. Rebuilding puerto rico and u. S. Virgin islands will take years. The Health Care Systems are in direcondition and most of the operational facilities need some degree of assistance. To make matters worse the electrical grid has been devastated which has significantly hampered recoveryefforts. We dont know the full extent of the damage let alone when we will have electricity and Running Water restored. We are trying to make sure we do Everything Possible to addressthe short and long term needs. Especially in the face of Thepublic Health risk that resulted and will continue to resultfrom these storms. I would like to thank the witnesses for testifying today and i look forward to hearing your testimony. I yield five minutes for Opening Statement to the Ranking Memberfrom colorado. This 2017 Hurricane Season has been one of the most damagingon record. Hurricane harvey broke the record for the greatestamount of rain rec
Friends and family members that lost their lives. I am deeply sorry. The debate starts at 8 eastern tuesday night on cspan. Now a discussion on fracking. The procedure of creating fractures in rocks by injecting a substance. This is 45 minutes from the Annapolis Book festival. Good afternoon. I am a professor at the school of Public Health. I teach environmental and Occupational Health sciences. I am hear to moderate the panel on fracking with our guest. I will give a brief overview of fracking and terms and then each author will give their discussion and then we will take questions. If you think you have a question we ask you to come up to the mike. These are the books. Second slide. So i want to start off by defining fracking. The term is short for hydraulic fracturing which is a technical term used by the oil and gas industry for shell gas extraction. It can be spelled with a c. The term is hydraulic fracturing which is what we will be talking about. The thing that is important when
Straight up until 1988. Just never minded if the wells were dads, which often they were. They could not figure out how to open the rock. Just believe in it. He was stubborn. The other thing is, you do not think of an oil man as being someone interested in sustainability, but 1970s, after he had enriched his mind starts to wander, interests change. He meets the midcentury futurist and becomes incredibly interested in Spaceship Earth and how we can survive with 5 billion people on the planet when we will have 7 billion. And this becomes his obsession. One of the largest contributors to a sciences, sustainability. But he never took that into Renewable Energy, just never believed in Renewable Energy. Probably a man of his time. When he lived Renewable Energy just was not ready for prime time yet. I would argue that he is now he sells off his company, discovers the shell, proves that it can be done, sells Office Company in about 2001. Right about the same time you have this young guy in Okl
The war on terror and the soul of the obama presidency, because he finds in the Counter Terrorist reggie lot of revelations about obamas nature and style. Would you like to say a few things . As steve has said these men seem diametrically opposed at least in style and looks. They both confronted a great humbler for president s and that is reality. What you can do and what you cant do. Although it is still the most powerful job in the world there are enormous limits which every president discovers sometimes to their grief and sometimes their wisdom. Sometimes a combination of those two things. We have a lot to talk about. 50 years apart, cold war versus war on terror and yet lots of connecting dots. Let me stop there and turn it over to dan. I started thinking about this little bit when i was reading ikes bluff and i recently finished my book and was thinking a lot about obama and obama fighting wars and trying to get out of fighting wars and as i was reading evans book it came as upgra
Accelerately or with overtly or with indirect warfare, youre going to break things. And people dont like to be occupy toed by you. And they, you know, imagine if we had afghan troops walking down our streets. We, you know, wed resist. And so it kind of goes with the territory. In eisenhowers a case, they did a lot of they broke a lot of rules. The cia, people always think of the cia plot now long after the cia stopped doing those plots, everybody just assumes it was the cia. So that was a longterm harm x. Some of those plots were stupid and wrong. On the other hand, the western alliance and europe, the seventh fleet in the pacific have kept a kind of International Order to that has kept us from world war not little wars, but kept us from world war created a fairly free global trade zone and permitted the advance of democracy not everywhere by any means, but in many parts of the world. That is a great legacy. We have three minutes. I will take less than that for my question. Good. Can c