Environmental Conflict and Media Coverage of an Oil Spill in Trinidad

ABSTRACT This poster session gives an overview of oil spill statistics on oil spills of at least 10,000 gallons (34 tonnes) that have occurred worldwide over the last 20 years. Included are: the annual amount of oil spilled from different source types as well as in total, and the number and amount of oil spilled by size range. The data indicate that in any one year, the total amount of oil spilled depends largely on the incidence of catastrophic spills. While the frequency of smaller spills under 100,000 gallons (340 tonnes) greatly exceeds those of spills of over 1 million gallons (3,400 tonnes), the total volume of these smaller spills represents only a fraction of one catastrophic spill. While tanker spills have often gotten more media coverage, the amount of oil spilled from these vessels is often less than that spilled from pipelines, storage tanks, and other facilities.

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Mediated Visibility and Public Environmental Litigation: The Interplay between Inside and Outside Court during Environmental Conflict in Australia

Laws ◽

10.3390/laws10020035 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

Cynthia Nixon ◽

Claire Konkes

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Environmental Sustainability ◽

Media Coverage ◽

News Coverage ◽

Environmental Conflict ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The Public ◽

Political Response ◽

Legal Outcomes ◽

Media And Communication

Conflicts over environmental sustainability are increasingly being fought in court, such as the use of Public Environmental Litigation (PEL) to challenge developments impacting the environment in Australia and elsewhere. News media coverage of PEL introduces legal actors to the dynamics of mediatized environmental conflict, which provides a platform for conflict actors to gain mediated visibility for their cause to influence public debate. When legal opportunities, such as PEL, are used as a campaign tactic, the dynamics of contest are exposed and, while courts have some power over legal actors, parties seek news media to favorably translate legal outcomes to the public. This article explores the nexus of PEL, news media, and communication strategies to find greater understanding of who gains from the mediated visibility that occurs when transnational environmental campaigns take their claims to court. Using content analysis and discourse analysis of news texts and semi-structured interviews relating to eight PEL cases instigated to stop the Adani Carmichael coal megamine in Australia, we seek better understanding of the mechanisms at play when PEL campaigns appear in news media, and find that the dominance of outside court sources in news coverage not only privilege the political aspects of PEL over the legal, but highlights how strategic litigation, such as PEL, can be used to influence public opinion and, therefore, a political response, regarding environmental conflict.

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The Role of Place-Lore in Environmental Conflict Discourse: The Case of Paluküla Sacred Hill in Estonia

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics ◽

10.2478/jef-2021-0024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 198-220

Author(s):

Lona Päll

Keyword(s):

Media Coverage ◽

Environmental Communication ◽

Environmental Conflict ◽

Critical Study ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Empirical Examination ◽

Public Discussion ◽

Significant Potential ◽

The Media

Abstract This article is a critical study of how local place-related narratives, i.e. place-lore, is integrated into environmental discussion and how it has significant potential to illustrate local and public, as well as vernacular and institutional, meanings concerned with the environment. Combining the frameworks of ecosemiotics, environmental communication studies, and place-lore research, the article explores how a new storytelling context, ideological selection, and the logic of conflict communication influence the re-contextualisation and interpretation of place-lore. The theory is applied to an empirical examination of public discussion of Paluküla sacred hill in Central Estonia. Tracking references to previous place-lore about Paluküla Hill in the media coverage of the conflict allows a demonstration of how the contextuality and referentiality towards an extra-narrative environment that are originally present in place-lore are often overlooked or ignored in conflict discourse. This, in turn, leads to socially and ecologically disconnected discussion.

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Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Hits Teens: ASHA Holds National Press Club Event to Highlight Dangers of MP3 Players; Media Coverage Goes Worldwide

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.an1.11052006.1 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 11 (5) ◽

pp. 1-27 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dee Naquin Shafer

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Noise Induced Hearing Loss ◽

Mp3 Players

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Spreading the Word: Seasonal Changes Mean New Opportunities for Media Coverage

ASHA Leader ◽

10.1044/leader.stw.18072013.np ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

Keyword(s):

Media Coverage ◽

Seasonal Changes ◽

Swimming Pools

Summer kicking into high gear conjures images of swimming pools and barbeques. But before you book your beach house for the weekend, think about what the changing seasons can mean for you professionally.

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