contents IN PICTURES 12 MY BEAUTIFUL BAKU
64 ATHABASCA TAR SANDS
146 MADE IN CHINA
28 BUILT ON OIL
99 CRUDE PROFIT
163 SOUR LAKE
44 CAPITOLIO
124 BOTTOM OF ‘DA BOOT
176 SAUDI STREET RACERS
62 FOLLOW THE MONEY
119 INTERVIEW
180 CONSIDERING THE CHOICES
97 OIL ON WATER
158 CRUDE WORLD
117 E CONOMICS OF EXTRACTION
174 ECUADOR: OIL VS NATURE
Rena Effendi
Yann Mingard Christopher Anderson
Polly Braden
Christian Lutz Kael Alford
Samuel Bollendorf
182 LEGACY
Maurice Broomfield
Johan Bävman Bryan Denton
IN WORDS
Kevin Smith
Helon Habila Ben Amunwa
Ed Kashi
Jeremy Lovell
Peter Maass John Vidal
REPORT: SPILLS 73 AMERICA’S GREAT OIL SPILL
Michael Shaw
78 MIDNIGHT OIL
Espen Rasmussen
88 THICKER THAN WATER
Jiang He and Arthur J D
COLOPHON Founder and Publisher Jon Levy
Design Jack Hamson
HOST Gallery Director Harry Hardie
Editors Lauren Heinz Max Houghton
Contributors Ben Amunwa Helon Habila Ed Kashi Jeremy Lovell Peter Maass Michael Shaw Kevin Smith John Vidal Sally Williams
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Contributing Editors Sophie Batterbury Maurice Geller Ken Grant Leo Hsu Colin Jacobson Steve MacLeod Feature Writer Guy Lane
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