I loved the Story - a real page-turner, and eloquently written.
Small Town, Big Oil is the Story of how the residents of Durham, led by these three women, out-organized, out-witted, and out-maneuvered the governor, the media, and the Onassis cartel to hand the powerful Greek billionaire the most humiliating defeat of his business career, and spare the New Hampshire seacoast from becoming an industrial wasteland..
But three Women vehemently opposed the project--Nancy Sandberg, the Town leader who founded and headed Save Our Shores
Dudley Dudley, the freshman state rep who Took the fight to the state legislature; and Phyllis Bennett, the publisher of the local newspaper that alerted the public to Onassis\' secret acquisition of the land.
The project was vigorously supported by the governor, Meldrim Thomson, and by William Loeb, the notorious publisher of the only statewide newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader.
At the time, it would have cost $600 million to build and was expected to generate 400,000 barrels of oil per day, making it the largest oil refinery in the world.
Kennedy\'s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the Richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the Town of Durham.
In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. - Bernd Heinrich, author of Winter World and Mind of the Raven Never underestimate the underdog.
And they win Their Story gives us hope that in future battles we can save not only our Small towns, but the planet itself.
Here in this book, unsung heroes - three determined young Women - lead the environmental fight to protect their Small Town against a political-industrial Goliath.
I loved the Story - a real page-turner, and eloquently written
