Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry, they have warmly praised a few lumber and paper companies for enlightened use of Maine land. What they do oppose is destruction of the unspoiled Maine coast by high-risk industries like oil and aluminum. As Editor Cole puts it: "There is no such thing as a little rape...
Protests and Payoffs. With punchy headlines and a tabloid format, the paper unflaggingly alerts its 10,000 readers to each week's environmental toll -an oil spill off Casco Bay, a fish kill at Mystery Lake, a historic barn razed at the University of Maine. Much vitriol is aimed at the paper industry, a major source of water pollution in the state. The Times recently flayed a new wave of fly-by-night operators who reopen abandoned paper mills for "short-term profit and long-term pollution...
...worry is the oil industry. Maine still has no laws regulating oil spills, offshore drilling and the like. Yet oilmen are now surveying the state's harbors, the only ports in the East deep enough to berth the industry's ever larger supertankers. The key trouble spot is Machiasport, where three companies plan major refineries despite thick fogs and tricky currents that pose serious risks of tanker mishaps and oil spillage. Devoid of controls, says Cole, "the state is standing stark naked to the oilmen...
...Wages of Fear is about four men who are employed by some pretty unattractive American big businessmen who run an oil company in South America. Their harrowing task is to transport truckloads of nitroglycerine to an oilfield to blow out a blazing fire there. Clouzot takes great pains in getting across the proper atmosphere. The first half of the film or so is devoted to probing the squalor, primitivism, and baseness of the town. Clouzot had spent some time in Brazil working on a documentary, and his intimate familiarity with the repellent conditions in towns used as bases for American...
Residents of Santa Barbara so far have been unsuccessful in their attempt to convince officials to ban oil drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel, despite their pleas for "freedom from pollution...