Gulf Coast Overflights for Environmental and Disaster Monitoring
Various flights with SouthWings to document Gulf Coast infrastructure and pollution.
Various flights with SouthWings to document Gulf Coast infrastructure and pollution.
Data infrastructure supporting recognition of the anthropocenic air pollution in the context of the 6th Naphtha plants is the collection of health related and biological data, as it could be one possibility to sue. The data collected in scientific studies mentioned in the film were the concentration of a certain metabolite (produced when being exposed to VCM) in the bodies of children visiting the schools nearby and the incidence of cancer in the surrounding area. Doing medical and epidemiological research on these topics could help to set regulations. And - and that's maybe even more important to the people affected - if you can prove that you got a disease from being near the factory, you might be able to sue.
This report is an update to Ecojustice's 2007 Report: Exposing Canada's Chemical Valley that looked at the air pollutants emitted by the petrochemical industrial complex called Chemical Valley in S
Waiting for disaster?
Named “the most polluted air in Canada” in 2011 by the World Health Organization (The Chemical Valley, 2013) and
The Pollution Reporter app in an example of a civic data resource for the Chemical Valley (Sarnia, CA) case study (Group #3).