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A remarkable work by a tenacious scientist, Hidden Scourge is an important expose of the enormous scale and dreadful effects of oil industry spills and the dysfunctional regulatory culture that enables them. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment. Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa and Shredding the Public Interest: Ralph Klein and 25 Years of One-Party Government This is a remarkable investigation that should open many eyes, and perhaps many hearts. Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature This book is bound to become a seminal work for anyone concerned with the impact of the fossil fuel industry on our land, health, and governments. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment. Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State

Oil and gas spill carbon into the atmosphere when consumed, heating the planet - unless they spill on the way to the refinery, in which case they do grave damage to particular parts of the earth and the people on it. This is a remarkable investigation that should open many eyes, and perhaps many hearts. Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and co-founder of 350.org A remarkable work by a tenacious scientist, Hidden Scourge is an important expose of the enormous scale and dreadful effects of oil industry spills and the dysfunctional regulatory culture that enables them. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment. Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State: How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming - in Alberta, and in Ottawa and Shredding the Public Interest: Ralph Klein and 25 Years of One-Party Government

Kevin Timoney has produced an excoriating account of exceptional regulatory incompetence and negligence in the management of oil industry spills, which inspires shock and anger while being an almost confusingly enjoyable and enlightening read. More often than not, the first thing that companies and governments announce when a major spill is revealed is that there is no evidence of environmental damage, and that the cleanup will be complete. Read this work and you'll never believe those words again. William F. Donahue, environmental consultant This is a remarkable investigation that should open many eyes, and perhaps many hearts. Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature This book is bound to become a seminal work for anyone concerned with the impact of the fossil fuel industry on our land, health, and governments. Kevin Timoney reveals the environmental regulation of the oil industry as a national embarrassment. Kevin Taft, author of Oil's Deep State

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Kevin P. Timoney is a senior ecologist and author of the award-winning book The Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem. He lives in Ardrossan, Alberta.

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