Oil slick off Texas arrives from Mexico
- Title
- Oil slick off Texas arrives from Mexico
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:02:25
- Description
- Andrew Manderstam interviews an American male naturalist (not identified) about an oil slick off the coast of Texas. Nearly 20,000 barrels of oil a day are flowing from the Mexican government’s Ixtoc 1 well, which blew out in a shower of flame (03/06/79).
- Contributors
- Andrew Manderstam
- Keywords
- USA; Oil; Mexico; Petroleum industry; Oil pollution; Texas; Marine pollution
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LBC/IRN, "Oil slick off Texas arrives from Mexico". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0011900519013 (Accessed 26 Jul 2025)