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Title: |
The Ocean Ranger |
| Sub-title: |
Remaking the Promise of Oil |
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| By (author): |
Susan Dodd |
| ISBN10-13: |
1552664643 : 9781552664643 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Weight: |
.331 Kg. |
| Published: |
Fernwood Publishing - January 2012 |
| List Price: |
18.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| On February 15, 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland taking the entire crew of eighty-four men â including the authorâ s brother â down with it. It was the worst sea disaster in Canada since the Second World War, but the memory of this event gradually faded into a sad story about a bad storm â relegated to the â Extreme Weatherâ section of the CBC archives. Susan Dodd resurrects this disaster from the realm of â historyâ and maps the socio-political processes of its aftermath, when power, money and collective hopes for the future revised the story of corporate indifference and betrayal of public trust into a â lesson learnedâ by an heroic industry advancing technology in the face of a brutal environment. This book is a navigational resource for other disaster aftermaths, including that of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, and a call for vigilant government regulation of industry in all its forms. |
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