The Western Oil and Gas Association is a powerful actor in the air pollution domain especially, from the 1940s up through at least 1988, but I can't tell what happened to it after that. It may have become folded into one of the other oil lobbying organizations, like the Western States Petroleum Association, but I just don't know, which I think is a bit weird. It was bas
Bishop, C. (2012). Artificial hells: Participatory art and the politics of spectatorship. Verso Books. Chapter 2: Artificial Hells: The Historic Avant-gardeIn the second chapter of the book, Bishop (2012) describes three historic avant-garde trends that were influential in the development of participatory arts: Italian Futurism (led by Filippo Marinetti), Russian Proletkult and mass spectacle, and Paris Dada (influenced by Andre Breton).
In Point Comfort, TX, the aluminum producer Alcoa has polluted the waters of Lavaca Bay with mercury, leading to an EPA superfund site.
In her interview, Diane Wilson emphasizes that Formosa plant workers have deep knowledge of the company's violations, but have nobody to talk to about it. If they file complaints to the management, they risk being fired. In consequence, Wilson becomes the go-to person for workers to talk to.
Towards the end of their interview, Brooking Gatewood asks Diane Wilson about her relationship to Point Comfort as a place. In the conversation before, she mentioned that Diane has 120 years of family history in the area -- and how such deep relations are a precondition for successful activism. Her advice is to follow ones "intuition" and get out into the world, not to "stay in air conditioned spaces" and discuss.
Overview of local citizen initiatives that Formosa Plastics has been involved with in Baton Rouge and Point Comfort.
Formosa Plants in US, Vietnam and Taiwan are located close to the ocean, posing a threat to marine life and the livelihood of fishermen.
In his February 2020 letter to the Louisiana newspaper The Advocate, law professor Oliver Houck addresses the recent coverage about Formosa's expansion plans in the area.
Columbia University purports to be concerned about “blight” in the Manhattanville area (part of West Harlem), the remnants of an industrial past that to the eyes of the university and those it seeks to attract may regard it as outdated, useless, “empty,” and perhaps even aesthetically unpleasing (which is important for narratives of “development”).
