Unraveling Industry
followtheoil.org
The Unraveling Industry platform is currently in beta testing. If you are interested in helping to troubleshoot the site, please email: unraveling.industry@gmail.com. Disclaimer: all data visualised was sourced from the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. Their website states that this dataset is intended for informational purposes only and that they are not responsible for any discrepancies. As such, Unraveling Industry inherits this disclaimer.
Unraveling Industry is a platform to map oil and gas infrastructure in Louisiana by
company, supporting local and global demands for corporate
accountability and “ecological reparations”—reparations for segregated human communities as well as between human beings and our wider ecosystems.
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Beyond the platform, the project will manifest in various creative outcomes to explore the corporate-colonial cosmologies that our extractive culture follows to the end(s) of the earth. It traces corporate-colonial guiding lines through the continuum of Extractivism, which spans from colonialism and slavery to coastal erosion and climate change. Uses a methodology I call cartographic unraveling, it disentangles and analyzes the GIS lines (pipelines and canals) and points (wells) used to make geography, unmake communities, and break Earth’s geology.

