Naphthenic acid agents, thickening agent of napalm and oil drying agents used in painting and wood surface treatment. Industrially useful naphthenates include those of aluminium, magnesium, calcium, barium, cobalt, copper, lead, manganese, nickel, vanadium, and zinc. One oft-cited study stated that "naphthenic acids are the most significant environmental contaminants resulting from petroleum extraction from oil sands deposits." However "under worst-case exposure conditions, acute toxicity is unlikely in wild mammals exposed to naphthenic acids in AOS tailings pond water, but repeated exposure may have adverse health effects." Naphthenic acids are present in Athabasca oil sands (AOL) tailings pond water (TPW) at an estimated
Incendiary: The Willingham Case Festival, "Incendiary" won the Louis Black Award. "Variety"'s Joe Leydon called it "a frequently unsettling account of how dubious 'science' possibly led to an irreversible miscarriage of justice." At its East Coast Festival Premiere at AFI/Discovery Silverdocs, "Incendiary" was an audience favorite. Art Levine of The Huffington Post called "Incendiary" "A gripping, visually stunning indictment of a miscarriage of justice as great as that chronicled in Errol Morris's groundbreaking THE THIN BLUE LINE..." In limited theatrical release in the fall of 2011, the film was a "critic's pick" of "The Washington Post", "The Village Voice", "The Austin Chronicle", "The Los