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The Seabird Trials: How a Scientist Took Big Oil to Court and Won

The Seabird Trials: How a Scientist Took Big Oil to Court and Won

Penn, Briony

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Environmental StudiesGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

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ISBN10: 1998526666
ISBN13: 9781998526666
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Pages: 288
Language: English

Through lyrical storytelling and vivid science writing, The Seabird Trials reveals the fragility and wonder of seabird life, the great cost of oil dependence and--at a time when scientists are increasingly questioned and silenced--the enduring importance of evidence and truth.

In the aftermath of one of the deadliest oil spills in the Pacific, two friends--one Canadian, one American and both seabird biologists--were called up as expert witnesses to represent opposite sides of a landmark court case. Their friendship became one of the many casualties of the spill, along with 10,000 seabirds. The court battle charted the breakdown of the relationship between the two men through the tools of international corporate warfare: targeting vulnerabilities, manufacturing doubt, spinning false narratives of mitigation and--the ultimate weapon--discrediting the men's love of the natural world. However, the final David and Goliath settlement of the 1986 Apex Houston spill set a new legal precedent for the global rights of nature. Orchestrated by the brilliant team of Canadian scientist Harry Carter and US prosecutor Valerie Lee, it was the first settlement in North American history to compensate for the destruction of wild animals, and it set the stage for the two-billion-dollar settlement of the Exxon Valdez spill that followed three years later. The settlement led to the establishment of a successful twenty-five-year experiment to encourage the surviving seabirds to return to their home nesting colony.

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