5/21/14: Boat support for an ANTI crude oil transport videographer and activist

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Justin Mikulka is an independent filmmaker who lives in Albany with his family. When the tanker Stena Primorsk ran aground on her maiden voyage carrying North Dakota crude oil from Albany in December 2012 a whole lot of us suddenly became aware of an entirely new threat to the Hudson – Justin included.

His first video was unique and greatly helped educate and mobilize grassroots opposition to the transport of North Dakota Bakken crude oil and heavy, sinking Alberta Tar Sands crude in N.Y. State. Justin is now working on a second film and Riverkeeper offered a River’s Eye View of the loading facilities in the Port of Albany. He’ll be aboard again soon.

And on 5/15, as we sampled our way north, the tanker Afrodite sailed for New Brunswick, Canada, with another 8 million gallon load of Bakken crude. She makes a round trip every 8 days or so.