| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.1

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Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow. By Nadja Drost, filmmaker. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2005. 66 minutes. DVD or VHS. $348.00.
Petroleum from the Ecuadorian rainforest has proven flammable in more ways than one. While it fuels about a third of the country's economy, its extraction also has sparked controversy and violence over oil-soaked fields, contaminated rivers, sickened children, and ruined livelihoods.	1
Enter EnCana, Canadian energy giant and main protagonist in this award-winning film. The company professes a commitment to corporate social responsibility. Not so, says young Canadian filmmaker Nadja Drost. To prove her point, she follows the company's pipeline from the Amazon and over the Andes, recording what she sees and hears. In the process, she becomes part of the story, confronting police and heavy-handed security personnel. Authorities warn local people not to talk to her.	2
Energy projects seldom make pretty stories, and this is not a pretty documentary. We see rainbow-hued slicks shimmering ominously on a mountain stream. "When we eat fish, it's like eating pure crude," says a local resident.	. . .

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