KREVOS Journal #4

Honestly, I enjoyed this reading. It certainly accomplishes its goal, to provide various perspectives on the oil spill and its affects. So far, it has been fairly one sided though. It would have been cool to get an Exxon or Veco person's point of view. They might have a different story, because there is always two sides. The only detail about the Exxon representatives is that they did want it to get better, it just didn't seem realistic at that point. One thing that really struck me from this reading is Jane Eisemann's quote, "You can't repair emotions and you can't repair the loss of an ecosystem." I think this really sums up the community morale. There was a widespread range of emotions during that period, the effects are still felt today. There were those who were angry for lack of an answer, or the notion that Exxon wasn't doing enough, others were just angry that they couldn't fish or make money. They all wanted take care of the oil spill as soon as possible. And those people are just a fraction of who were affected. But through personal background, the people of Kodiak rolled up their sleeves and got to work.