A Warning for Future Generations: Twenty years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, sixty-two men and women share personal stories of what they saw, how they reacted, and how they coped with North America s worst tanker oil spill. Their anger and anguish had receded from view like oil seeping into rocky crevices on the beaches of Prince William Sound, but the terrible memories were never far from the surface. The stories tell of a shockingly slow response, the struggle to save the stricken tanker, the often heroic but largely futile efforts to limit the spread of oil and clean the beaches, a heart-breaking loss of fish and wildlife, a crippling blow to the commercial fishing industry, lingering social problems, and a loss of innocence among Alaskans who believed this spill would never happen. Reliving their experiences are fishermen, Native villagers, biologists, environmentalists, sociologists, Exxon executives, the governor, mayors, journalists, workers who washed oily rocks even the skipper of the ill-fated ship. For many of them, as one sociologist put it, the only way the Exxon Valdez disaster will end is when they die. For the rest of us, the spill is a cautionary tale about the high cost of complacency and neglect, and fair warning of the perils of putting off disaster planning for another day. One day, tomorrow will be too late.
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WINNER: Alaska's best nonfiction book of 2009 --Alaska Professional Communicators
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The Authors: Sharon Bushell, author of the 'We Alaska' series of oral histories, lives in Homer, Alaska. Stan Jones, a former newspaper reporter and editor, lives in Anchorage. He is is author of the Alaska-based Nathan Active mystery fiction series.
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The Spill - An Alaskan Tragedy,
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The Spill is an excellent read. It commemortes the twentieth anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. It is a collection of personal interviews that reflect the long-term ecological and economic impact to Alaska and its citizens. Read the Spill with an open heart and mind and reflect on influence this catastrophic event had on human lives and nature,and the damage that is still with us today. Chalk another one up for Goliath...David lost this battle.
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Compelling, heartbreaking. An unbearable tragedy becomes a lesson that needs to be learned, a story that needs to be told. This one was told extremely well by people who are stronger for going through something no one should have to go through. The authors did a good job of showing all points of view, but I found myself feeling outraged for the victims: the fishing industry,the wildlife,the land and water, people whose lawsuit still isn't resolved equitably. Everyone should read this book to get a clear picture of corporate greed gone amuck.
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I recommend this book to anyone living on the Gulf of Mexico. The stories in it make you realize this is not the first oil spill. It allows you to look at what is happening in your community as a textbook case of what happens in a technological disaster. From the lack of action and equipment to staged cleanup photo-ops to the Exxon workers who worked their tails off to get the 80 percent oil still on the ship to safety...a good read and a good way to make a little bit of sense out of the present-day Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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