The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil - Couverture souple

Dodd, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1552664643 ISBN 13 : 9781552664643

Editeur : Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

On February 15, 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland taking the entire crew of eighty-four men – including the author’s brother – 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 – relegated to the “Extreme Weather” section of the CBC archives. Susan Dodd resurrects this disaster from the realm of “history” 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 “lesson learned” 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Susan Dodd is an assistant professor in the Foundation Year Program at the University of
King's College. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1552664643
• ISBN 13: 9781552664643
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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