The Social and Political Meaning of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill |
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| Institution: | 1. Graduate School of Public Affairs, Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York, Milne Hall, 135 Western Ave., Albany, NY 12222, USA;2. Division of Political Science, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA;1. National Cancer Control Institute, National Cancer Center, 323 Ilsan-ro, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea;2. Occupational Safety and Health Research, Ulsan, South Korea;3. Institute of Environmental and Industrial Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea;4. Department of Environmental Health, Korea National Open University, Seoul, South Korea;5. Research Institute of Standards for Environmental Testing, Seoul, South Korea;6. Institute of Health and Environment, School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Gwanak ,1 Gwanak-ro, Seoul, South Korea;1. A.V.Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 29, Moscow 119991, Russia;2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Kashirskoye sh. 31, Moscow 115409, Russia;1. Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece;2. Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Ankara University, 06100 Be?evler, Ankara, Turkey;3. Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we argue that the Exxon Valdez oil spill gained so much attention because of its setting in Alaska. Alaska symbolizes for many Americans the wilderness or frontier that has long been part of American thought. At the same time, American national development has largely depended on the discovery and use of the nation’s abundant natural resources. The setting of the Valdez spill in the seemingly pristine waters of Prince William Sound brought the tension between our national identification with wilderness and our national need for further natural resource exploitation into sharp focus. In the aftermath of the spill, a legislative deadlock was passed and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 was passed. The Valdez accident had longer-term consequences as well, most prominent of which is related to the ongoing debate over whether to open up the coastal plain in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to further development. |
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