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The Human Cost of BP's Rise to Power
St. Martin's Press
March 2011
On Sale: March 1, 2011
432 pages
ISBN: 031255494X
EAN: 9780312554941
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The story is all too-familiar: On April 20, 2010, the
Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers
and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S.
offshore drilling. But, this wasn’t the first time British
Petroleum and its cost-cutting practices destroyed parts of
the natural world. It also was not the first time that
BP’s negligence resulted in the loss of human life, ruined
family businesses or shattered dreams. Journalist Mike
Magner has been tracking BP’s reckless path for years and,
for the first time, focuses on the human price of BP’s rise
to power. From Alaska to Kansas to the Gulf, Magner has talked to
people whose lives have been destroyed by BP’s almost
unparalleled corporate greed. When BP acquired an
abandoned Kansas refinery in 1998, it discovered one of the
most contaminated groundwater plumes in the U.S. Rather than
begin a full cleanup, BP declared there was no cause for
concern. A former schoolteacher alarmed by cancer cases in
the town pushed her community to take BP to court. In 2005,
an explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery, operating with a
raft of safety problems because of neglected maintenance,
killed fifteen people including the mother and father of a
young woman who was driving there to spend the Easter
holidays with her parents. A year later, thousands of
gallons of oil spilled onto Alaska’s North Slope from a
corroded BP pipeline. Following a hurricane, BP’s Thunder
Horse rig almost sank because of a flaw in its construction,
and repair work exposed even more serious problems. Poisoned Legacy is the searing true story of the rise and
fall of BP, a company that went from being a green maverick
promising a world “Beyond Petroleum” to one of the most
notorious corporate villains in history.
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