| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 50 sec.) ; 308421833 bytes |
| Summary |
What does it take to have a say about an environmental controversy raging outside your own front door? The residents of Sydney's Botany are about to find out as they attempt to find a sane solution to a dire environmental threat - 60,000 barrels of highly toxic waste in their midst. Nancy Hillier, a defiant and audacious 78-year-old, has led resident action against her polluting neighbours for most of her life, and in what could be one of her last big battles, she has gathered a group of local residents to fight the community's biggest threat yet. Nancy's enemy is Orica (formerly ICI), the owner of the world's largest stockpile of toxic hexachlorobenzene waste. Bruce Gotting, site manager, has agreed to engage in consultation with local residents to find a mutually beneficial solution to the mess. But after decades of explosions and foul smells, cover-ups and broken promises, the residents trust no one. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English) |
| Event |
Broadcast 2013-04-13 at 15:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: PG |
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Factory and trade waste -- Environmental aspects.
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Hazardous wastes -- Environmental aspects.
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Hazardous wastes -- Toxicology.
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Hexachlorobenzene -- Environmental aspects.
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Community activists.
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Castle, Jane, director
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