Jonathan P. Thompson

River of Lost Souls (eBook, ePUB)

The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A vivid historical account…Thompson shines in giving a sense of what it means to love a place that's been designated a 'sacrifice zone.'" ¿ -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Award-winning investigative environmental journalist Jonathan P. Thompson digs into the science, politics, and greed behind the 2015 Gold King Mine disaster, and unearths a litany of impacts wrought by a century and a half of mining, energy development, and fracking in southwestern Colorado. Amid these harsh realities, Thompson explores how a new generation is setting out to make amends. JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Torrey House Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781937226848
• Artikelnr.: 51599417

Autorenporträt

JONATHAN THOMPSON is a native Westerner with deep roots in southwestern Colorado. He has been an environmental journalist focusing on the American West since he signed on as reporter and photographer at the Silverton Standard & the Miner newspaper in 1996. He has worked and written for High Country News for over a decade, serving as editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2010. He was a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and in 2016 he was awarded the Society of Environmental Journalists' Outstanding Beat Reporting, Small Market. He currently lives in Bulgaria with his wife Wendy and daughters Lydia and Elena.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I
HEADWATERS
1. Blowout
2. Holy Land
3. Awful in their Sublimity
4. Dandelion Brew
5. Olaf and the Gold King
6. Perfect Poison
7. Slime Wars
8. Hard Rains Gonna Fall
9. Blackest Week
10. Slime Wars II
11. Strike
12. Radiate as Directed
PART II
FOSSILS
13. Moving Mountain
14. A Pumpjack is not a Coalmine
15. Hot Spots
16. This can't be the United States
PART III
WE'RE ALL DOWNSTREAMERS
17. Sunnyside
18. Men with Boots
19. Fishy
20. Mine Pool
21. Superfund
22. Water is Life
Index