S6 Part 1 | Plastic Pipelines | Ep 5: Whack-a-Mole

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 13 September 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In the final episode of part 1 in our Bridge to Nowhere season, we look at the chronic whack-a-mole problem in frontline communities. Just as one facility gets shut down or cleaned up, another is waiting to take its place. In a lot of ways, the plastic problem itself is a whack-a-mole issue catalyzed by progress in shifting away from fossil fuels in the transport and building sectors. How can policy makers and activists predict and prevent these sorts of problems?

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0:00.0	The situation is escalating as Diane Wilson had locked herself by the neck to a fishing
0:10.5	boat blocking the entrance of the Army Corps, the police have just arrived.
0:15.8	And Diane Wilson is on her 36th day of hunger strike.
0:21.9	She hasn't eaten a thing that's her and her white fishing boots.
0:26.4	It is her coffin that she brought over here to the Army Corps of Engineers.
0:30.7	She said to kill the bay is to kill the fishermen and kill a community.
0:38.5	I was arrested because we did a lockdown right in front of the U.S. Corps of Engineers in
0:45.4	Galveston, Texas.
0:47.3	And we had a boat.
0:49.0	We had a motor.
0:50.3	We had a coffin.
0:52.7	We were locking the entrance to try to get Captain Timothy Veil's attention because
0:59.8	he is the one in the U.S. Corps of Engineers who can revoke that project.
1:07.7	And he can at the very least force a supplemental environmental impact study.
1:14.0	So it was trying to get his attention.
1:22.0	This is Diane Wilson.
1:23.9	The Shrimpboat Captain turned environmental activist you met in the first episode of
1:29.2	this series.
1:30.9	Diane still lives in her hometown, Point Comfort, Texas.
1:34.7	And after fighting for decades to save her local bay and the fishermen who depend on
1:40.1	it, she won a big lawsuit against Petrochemical Giant Formosa.
1:46.0	It came with a $50 million settlement.
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