that's like having an oil spill the size of the exxon valdez disaster every two years. and the environmental damage was estimated to cost $1 billion. mr. president in addition to the horrific loss sustain by these three families, this explosion caused massive environmental damage. in fact, i had been scheduled to be at this exact site just a few weeks later to dedicate a great newly restored salmon spawning ground. when i went there and saw the damage after the explosion, i was just shocked. that blast had destroyed all of the plant and animal life in the creek and a once very lush and diverse habitat had been burned to ashes. now, again, our community was not unique. at that time on average our nation was suffering one pipeline accident every single day. well, mr. president, while bellingham may not have been unique in our tragedy, we were one of a kind in our response. today, 10 years after this unthinkable happened, the story of the bellingham explosion is also now the story of how a community came together to tackle a nationwide problem and protect other americans f

remember the exxon valdez them all that happened there? these are things that you must focus on and you must make sure these things don't happen. in my country, one of the leading countries in trying to solve and protect against these types of problems. what these people don't understand is, if we don't do offshore drilling, indonesia will. and if you think we are sloppy about oil spills and what happens to the informant, you can't believe how sloppy indonesia is. the disaster in indonesia is the 1,000 times worse than it would ever be here and will have been far more frequently. to get one of these animals covered with oil, they will light a match and flipped it on them and watch out that they can run. what they don't understand is the world's dynamic. they will increase its to do this stuff. you have got to understand basic economics in this stuff. when i look at this stuff as well, and i see the nuclear issue there. and i will stop with this one but i was on the board for years and years and years, which is that general days ago. i used