Ebook: The Ocean Ranger: remaking the promise of oil
Author: Dodd Susan
- Tags: Ocean Ranger (Plateforme de forage), Offshore oil well drilling--Accidents--Political aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador, Offshore oil well drilling--Accidents--Social aspects--Newfoundland and Labrador, Pétrole--Puits--Forage offshore--Accidents--Aspect politique--Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Pétrole--Puits--Forage offshore--Accidents--Aspect social--Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Ocean Ranger (Drilling rig), Offshore oil well drilling -- Accidents -- Social aspects -- Newfoundland and Labrador, Offshore oil w
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
- City: Halifax;Newfoundland and Labrador
- Language: English
- epub
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.