and
there was a memorial week in the yellowstone river
uh... which is run through laurel montana at part of its heat packs of
that's what rivers have i'd just invented that but
uh... it does go through laurel montana there was an or oil leak there and exxon
you'll be shocked to know lied about what would happen when there was a week
lied about
would be like were there to be a leak and of course lied about what it health
for the leak is gonna go of minnesota i mean montana governor brian schweitzer
is on the story but let's let's tell you what what happened at the beginning this
is which whites are civil this was a much wider first let's let's see some of
this devastation listen to brian schweitzer refer discounts which i like
because you know you're from montana when that happens
uh... this is clip number one but no it's not that someone the property
exxon mobil today expanded its cleanup effort putting more people in the field
there are three hundred sixty workers assigned to the spill
as the giant oil company tries to figure out what went wrong with its pipeline
i really can't speculate on what
costas it was a very big surprise to us
montana governor brian schweitzer toward the spill aryan today
observing the cleanup and promising landowners like jim swanson that he'll
keep after exxon mobil to get rid of the audio this cleanup is done when the
state of montana says it's done nobody else going
finite crunches are personally beyond its like to know what's going to go to
the along another part of the riverbank
but about a mile riverfront
comcast will bury showed us his flooded homes
his land reeking of crude oil there was a dream home
and what is it
green
we want to stay here forever now the house will be torn down and bob and his
wife will have to rebuild on higher ground
the oil stain on the side of his garage is the high-water mark from the flooding
bob said he was shot the night he first look down at the smelly water
surrounding is house ice and that's followed up with more on that side
that river with black with crude
this black to do it
yes but its
it's not surprising that you know i love when the guy from exxon uh... says that
we have no idea what happened here's what happens
the oil broke
the deal will build the pipeline broke and all well when all over the place and
uh... everything that you said what had happened didn't happen the reason it
happened
whatever the reason it happened and natural reasons it would have happened
the the there's been eight they very high at level of flow in that river
abt sort of more fierce water because of uh... of rain uh... and runoff thanks
saying things that i never really talk about rain and runoff uh... button all
these things that happen
still you said that there were twelve feet of land between that and the
pipeline everything would be fun turns out there were four erosion whatever
that arose was cause this pipeline to break
and to to go down stream of course this is what they said exxon mobil became
uh... under fire on wednesday from governor brian schweitzer said the oil
giant had assured montana that any still on the yellowstone river could be shut
off in a few minutes this is what's amazing it took nearly an hour for that
to happen fifty six minutes to be precise
uh... on july first when and this is the longest underhand river in the united
states
uh... there's a trivia question that'll get you know where we were told that
they were all the matic shutoff valves and that is not possible that it could
run even a couple of minutes into the river before it shut off well it turns
out that these shot off was not nearby it was in houston and it took much
longer to thirty minutes and then fifty six minutes summer saying fifty as many
as fifty eight minutes uh... and of course
they're saying initially that it wouldn't run much
past where was now they're saying they're seeing it ten miles away
some twenty five miles away and governors for thursday in the third
people that are seeing aural in north dakota and i don't know exactly the the
the lay of the land there but what's happening of course is exxon is not
being
totally honest
the oil companies not being totally honest why don't they just say we
screwed up we gotta clean this up this is a disaster when the river start to
rise this spring in laurel officials again said they were concerned
that's before any of this happen after exxon has assured them uh... at some of
the content of exxon mobil what told by the company on june first
but it was not at risk it was buried twelve feet beneath the riverbed i'm
gary pressing hui sarra pressing uh... as who we saw in that video
said that the company did not know where the twelve-foot meter figure came from
but was looking
into the matter will good i'm glad they're looking into it that's going to
be helpful and they figure out who said it was twelve p the point is
there's oil everywhere
and brian schweitzer seems to be honest
but he's going to be on it
like smell on skunk