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Love Canal" was a segment in the premiere episode of Michael Moore's television series TV Nation, which featured realtors attempting to lure prospective residents to the area. "Love Canal" is the name of a 7" single released by the punk rock band Flipper in February 1981. The lyrics are about the disaster. [96]
Gibbs has authored several books about the Love Canal story and the effects of toxic waste. The earlier and most quoted is Love Canal. My story, written with Murray Levine and published in 1982. Her story was dramatized in the 1982 made-for-TV movie Lois Gibbs: the Love Canal Story, in which she was played by Marsha Mason.
Levine visited the site in 1978, shortly after Love Canal was labeled a national disaster. Levine’s book chronicles the history leading up to the Love Canal disaster, and details the development of local community organizations in response to the government’s lack of a response. [6]
The Love Canal Disaster is also credited as the start of the environmental activism movement in the United States. Amoco Cadiz oil spill , 1978 – The vessel broke in two, releasing its entire cargo of 1.6 million barrels (250,000 m3) of oil off the coast of Brittany, France.
The film alleges that Hooker Chemical Company "never warned the state that dioxin was in the canal." In response, Bruce Davis, executive vice president of Hooker Chemical Company, states that "the quantity of dioxin that was located in that entire large canal site was a very, very low quantity."
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While the widely publicized Love Canal disaster is often credited as the reason the Superfund law was passed, Love Canal activist Lois Gibbs has said that Love Canal looked like a suburban community, while "Valley of the Drums became the visualization of the problem." The site became a collection point for toxic wastes starting sometime in the ...
The Love Canal disaster was obviously significant but it is inconsistent to essentially define a neighbourhood by an event. By barely describing Love Canal, the article in its current state also manages to be simultaneously recentist and not current. --pmj 06:38, 2 March 2017 (UTC)