Today we have 3 guests with very different backgrounds and very different experiences with the oil and natural gas business.
5 years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico (the worst and biggest oil spill in human history), we talk with documentary filmmaker Stephanie Kovac, who has just completed the new film LUBE JOB about Louisiana’s relationship with big oil. She discusses the lasting effects of the BP oil spill for the entire Gulf region.
Then Roger Cooper joins the group. As someone who represented the natural gas industry in Washington for decades, Roger gives us a sense of what regulations and exploration goes on. Roger is open and honest about the limitations and compromises that oil and gas production requires.
Finally, Nanette Barragan, Mayor of Hermosa Beach California discusses her battle to keep “big oil” from fracking in her seaside neighborhood just south of Los Angeles.
Comedian and documentary filmmaker Josh Weinstein joins Heather Ankeny and Mark Thompson for much of this show.
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