"Small Town, Big Oil" - The Fight to Keep An Oil Refinery Out of Durham
Podcast |
The Exchange
Publisher |
NHPR
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
News
Publication Date |
Aug 06, 2018
Episode Duration |
00:57:17
We talk with the author of "Small Town, Big Oil" about a David-and-Goliath tale of community activism that played out in N.H. In 1973, Aristotle Onassis, arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build the world's biggest oil refinery in the town of Durham. We learn about the three women who led the fight against the project: activist Nancy Sandberg; Dudley Dudley, a freshman state representative; and Phyllis Bennett, a local newspaper publisher who alerted the public to Onassis' secret acquisition of the land.
We talk with the author of "Small Town, Big Oil" about a David-and-Goliath tale of community activism that played out in N.H. In 1973, Aristotle Onassis, arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build the world's biggest oil refinery in the town of Durham. We learn about the three women who led the fight against the project: activist Nancy Sandberg; Dudley Dudley, a freshman state representative; and Phyllis Bennett, a local newspaper publisher who alerted the public to Onassis' secret

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