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The Ocean Ranger : Remaking the Promise of Oil - Susan Dodd

The Ocean Ranger

Remaking the Promise of Oil

By: Susan Dodd

eBook | 2 January 2012

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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 — 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.

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