Format:
Streaming Video, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials, Electronic Resources
Title:
Ecocide : voices from paradise. (Kanopy Video Streaming Service)
Publisher, Date:
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
Description:
1 online resource (2 video files, approximately 66 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Summary:
On April 20th 2010 the Deepwater Horizon, a Transocean-owned, BP-leased oil rig exploded. The blaze claimed the lives of 11 workers and the uncapped well gushed for 87 days pouring an estimated 4.2 million barrels of oil into the sea. It is considered the worst man-made environmental disaster in US history. The residents of Grand Isle, the last inhabited barrier island off the coast of Louisiana, thought they were living in paradise until the BP oil spill hit their shores. Ecocide uses testimony from this island community to reveal the devastating repercussions that continue to plague them. No community along the Gulf Coast was hit harder by the oil disaster than Grand Isle, Louisiana, a blue-collar fishing village perched on a spit of sand 50 miles south of New Orleans. The beach community was right in the path of the disaster’s toxic crude and deadly chemical dispersants. How has this island community come to terms with the worst man-made ecological disaster in US history?
Subjects:
BP Deepwater Horizon Explosion and Oil Spill, 2010 -- Environmental aspects.
Oil spills -- Mexico, Gulf of -- 21st century -- History.
Oil spills -- Environmental aspects -- Mexico, Gulf of.
Grand Isle (La.) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Other Author:
Brown, Juliet, film director.
Kanopy (Firm)
Notes:
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by Juliet Brown Films in 2014.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Web Site:
Cover Image Web Link
Publisher or Distributor Number:
1208415
Other Number:
948843817
System Availability:
0
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
684755
Call Number:
Online
Course Reserves:
0
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