Small town, big oil : the untold story of the women who took on the richest man in the world--and won

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Small town, big oil : the untold story of the women who took on the richest man in the world--and won

Title remainder

the untold story of the women who took on the richest man in the world--and won

Statement of responsibility

David W. Moore

Creator

• Moore, David W., (David William), 1940-

Author

• Moore, David W., (David William), 1940-

Subject

• Environmental protection -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Environmentalism -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Olympic Refineries -- Corrupt practices
• Onassis, Aristotle Socrates, 1906-1975
• Petroleum industry and trade -- Corrupt practices -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Bennett, Phyllis, 1948-
• Petroleum refineries -- Location -- New Hampshire | Durham -- Public opinion | History -- 20th century
• Protest movements -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Public opinion -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Sandberg, Nancy
• Women -- Political activity -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Petroleum industry and trade -- Environmental aspects -- New Hampshire | Durham -- History -- 20th century
• Dudley, Dudley

Language

eng

Summary

"In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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." --

Assigning source

Page 4 of cover

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

363.7009742/5

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

TD195.P4

LC item number

M663 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography