Encore: Exxon Valdez | Oil Meets Water | 1
American Scandal
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🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A supertanker carrying 53 million gallons of crude oil runs aground in Prince William Sound sparking the worst man-made ecological catastrophe in the country’s history at the time. As Exxon struggles to get the cleanup underway, fishermen worry that this is the end of life as they know it
Links to recommended reading:
Out of the Channel by John Keeble
The Spill: Personal Stories from the Exxon Valdez Disaster
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| 0:07.0 | It's March 23, 1989. |
| 0:14.5 | Just past nightfall, and Frederica Rickey Aught is barreling down a mountain through the |
| 0:28.5 | dark in a toboggan. |
| 0:31.1 | Rickey lives alone on a mountain, three miles outside the tiny fishing village of Cordoba, |
| 0:36.3 | Alaska. |
| 0:37.3 | She's miles from the nearest plowed road, so getting anywhere means hopping on that |
| 0:41.6 | old sled and letting it rip. |
| 0:44.4 | The sled sends a shudder through her body as it skids over the hard, pax-no-dodging towards |
| 0:48.8 | spruces and boulders. |
| 0:50.5 | She smells the sap of the trees as she flies past. |
| 0:53.2 | The cold air stings her face. |
| 0:55.2 | God, she loves this place. |
| 0:58.1 | The lights of Cordoba come into view in the distance, and Rickey's heart swells with excitement. |
| 1:02.8 | It's not just the thrill of the ride, it's where she's headed and what she's about to do. |
| 1:08.9 | Rickey's addressing a government committee about her favorite subject, oil safety. |
| 1:13.9 | Specifically, how to protect her beloved Alaska from the billions of gallons of oil being |
| 1:18.4 | piped through its forest and shipped across its waters. |
| 1:22.2 | Rickey parks her sled at the bottom of the mountain. |
| 1:24.6 | When she hops on a bike and rides through town making her way to a cramped conference room |
| 1:28.5 | above the local fisherman's union home. |
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