Small Town, Big Oil
The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World-and Won
How three New Hampshire women triumphed over an oil billionaire: A very timely reminder that when we fight we often win.-Bill McKibben Never underestimate the underdog. In 1973, Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis-husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline, and arguably the richest man in the world-proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham. At the time, it would have cost $600 million to build and was expected to generate 400,000 barrels of oil per day, making it the largest oil refinery in the world. The project was vigorously supported by the governor, Meldrim Thomson,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63576-187-0
- EAN: 9781635761870
- Produktnummer: 27957776
- Verlag: Diversion Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'925 KB
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