Sentences with phrase «bringing whale oil»

In the play Angels in America, Prior, a character living with AIDS, describes the arrival of his ancestor, a ship captain who made his living by bringing whale oil to the Old World and immigrants to the New World.

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Starring Chris Hemsworth as experienced first mate Owen Chase, and Benjamin Walker as the untested Captain Pollard, the film begins by taking us back to 1820 and to Nantucket, New England where the whaling ship Essex has set off to find whale oil to bring back to fuel the city.

Science tells us that exploring and drilling for oil in Alaska would be disastrous to the region's whales and other wildlife, dirtying the water and bringing noise pollution that threatens the survival of many species.

A group of Vancouver multi-media artists are building a 25 foot whale to bring to the Enbridge public hearings to symbolize the expansive and growing community of people with a vision of an oil - free coast in BC.

The IWC meeting in Morocco may have seen the failure of plans to compromise on commercial whaling, to bring Japan and other international law objectors back into the fold, but there is some more interesting news coming from Agadir: More whales are being killed by pollution, getting caught in nets and other threats than by commercial whaling; and, Russian oil exploration in the Pacific is threatening critically endangered grey whales.