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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20100819:09:14:00

The marshes. fishermen told him 31 years later, the oysters still have not returned. which brings us to that famous spill, the exxon valdez in 1989. more than 21,000 gallons of oil still infest the shore. alaska s herring have never fully recovered. but in the gulf, animals and plants might fare better. the gulf of mexico is a hugely resilient body of water. there s the equivalent of one to two supertankers per year that seep into the gulf of mexico waters naturally. it populates the entire gulf of mexico with petroleum-eating bacteria. there s lots of them out there that are munching away on this oil all the time. reporter: so a third history lesson in the making. but probably not the last. bob woodruff, abc news, padre island, texas. now sort of the newest word from all of this is that the government s point man, the guy we ve been hearing from so often, thad allen, he is now saying, no time line, we can t give a fixed time line because ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100624:04:53:00

Episodes? is there a group of people. the person in the hottest seat in the nation on this issue would naturally be the bp rig manager. it s his call. it s his decision. and is he getting beep up for profit-saving? is there pressure on him? and he could say i got a call the night before, don t slow this up a day. that s why you need subpoena power. to find that out. people can still plead if fifth so you may not get it from that individual. you may get it from other individuals. i admit, you re expertise in this. is there anything we can do in terms of skimming the surface of the gulf to save the gulf from this continuing spill? it looks like it s not going to stop. i think we have not gone to the scale that we need to go to. you get the shrimp boats tloit with skimmers, you need to be plying this back and forth with supertankers. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100616:20:06:00

And the command central rhetoric and the pr campaign from bp? are they distracting us from the fact and distracting resources from the fact that they are neither containing the well, that they are not providing good data as to how much oil is coming out of well, that they continue to have to change that which is obviously relevant to how we respond to the well and they can t cap the well, and are we all just being distracted from all of that at this point? i think you re right. i think the bigger problem first of all, let me say, i think they are doing everything they can 5,000 feet below the surface. that s hard. it hasn t worked. we re unsuccessful, but containing it, they are trying their best. i m not i don t have a problem with what they are doing there. what i have a problem with is the cleanup above the sea. it is just awful. the president talks about 30,000 people and 17,000 national guardsmen. they are all waiting on the beach. why aren t we going to scale? i think we ve ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100616:20:07:00

Suck that stuff off the ocean. half a dozen supertankers, a million barrels each, could hold a whole lot of liquid, but you know why we re not doing that and nobody is willing to talk about it? there s a little law called the jones act which prohibits foreign-built marine ships from operating in domestic waters in order to protect the domestic ship building industry, but nobody has the courage to say let s waive the jones act and get these supertankers in here to clean up the mess so it doesn t hit the beach in the first place. and real quick what s the rationale behind the jones act, and then i m going to let you go. it was to protect the u.s. ship building industry, but it didn t work. all the supertankers are built in korea, china, japan, anywhere but the u.s. and you re saying because of this jones act, supertankers are not allowed to go into the gulf of mexico to to do surface cleanup? to operate in domestic waters. they can only go point to point, delivering oil and l ....

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