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Right now, oklahoma, kansas, in the midwest, in wyoming, people are fracking. when my uncle was a geologist, they would drop explosives straight down and fracture or frac the rocks, directly below the wellhead. where you drill into the earth. but now, people are able to drill sideways with technology that s been developed to go at very high angles, north, south, east and west. and people are doing fracking with such aggression and so successfully, that they re actually earthquakes now in oklahoma. so, you could say, well, oklahoma s buildings are not designed for earthquakes, and that s true. but oklahoma has all sorts of other preparedness with respect to tornadoes. so, maybe people will deal with a large earthquake in that area, in the same way they deal with tornadoes. but for me, as an engineer, wouldn t that be good if we ....
Is paying to relocate those thousands of families, it claims there is no reason to worry. the l.a. county department of health says there is no health effect. reporter: the company is trying to drill a relief well, but that could take several months. they are trying to trap the gas at the wellhead but it could take several months. bill: there are new fears in pair rise. a man shot dead at a police station. which republican is best suited for the job. ohio governor john kasich will make his case live in just minutes. ....
Large tar mats off the coast of east grand tear. so obviously their pr people and the folks that are calling the shots are just fumbling the ball constantly, and i think most of the people along the gulf coast just want them to admit, look you did some damage. accidents happen. this was a terrible accident and now what can we do to help to fix the problem? but instead it s time and time again denial lies outright lies, but they lied from the very beginning. they lied from the day the oil spill happened as far as the amount of oil that had left the wellhead to to the amount of equipment that was being used and mobilized along the gulf coast. and we can only speculate other fishes being, of course species being affected not just the dolphin. from an environmental standpoint, scientific standpoint what are the chances of the dolphin rebounding in the gulf or is that not a mobility? do you think we ll see the population back to what it was? well you know that s hard to tell. only tim ....
Oil spill linger on. a rig explosion left 11 work withers dead and spilled crude in the gulf. environmentalist said much more needs to be done. casy ste gal live in louisiana, casy. reporter: yeah john, it was the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. 3 billion. billion with with a b, barrils of oil went in the gulf of mexico over the course of 87 days. no one knew how to stop. it the underwater camera caught the oil gushing from the wellhead. the federal judge rowelled that bp was negligent and were to blame for the disaster. they may be on the hook for ....
Three months on the gulf of mexico floor. according to a federal judge three billion barrels of oil spewed into the water damaging coastlines from florida to texas. that same judge ruled bp s gross negligence and willful misconduct were to blame for the disaster. five years later bp tells us many lessons were learned. new technology has been implemented across the industry like enhanced blowout preventers. this giant piece of gear you re looking at now, developed by bp, and it is designed to prevent another spill we re told of this magnitude. capping stack is an enormous piece of equipment up to five stories tall, weighing tons and tons. and can then be deployed, as far under water as is necessary on top of the wellhead to shut off the flow of oil, coming out of the, out of the well. reporter: but some ....