Analysis Of The Movie Erin Brockovich

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Summary Of The Movie

The movie Erin Brockovich, directed by Steven Soderbergh, is based on a true story, and is an award winning film, starring Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich), Albert Finney (Ed Masry) and Aaron Eckhart (George).

Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three, who has been looking for a job but does not get accepted, as she is not professional, in terms of image and communication, and does not have the necessary skills.

Driving home to fetch her kids from the nanny, she was involved in a small accident, in which was not her fault, and had to go for an operation. She took the incident to court, hoping she would win her money back in order to pay for her surgery. She meets her lawyer, Ed Masry, who promises that shat she will win her money back but unfortunately due to her dress, attitude and inappropriate language, she does not succeed.

Erin demands a job from Ed, states that she will do anything and really needs the money. Ed decides to give her the job, but with no benefits. She begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the PG&E (Pacific Gas and Electric Company) and discovers the company is trying to buy land that is contaminated by hexavalent chromium .

Erin did her research and interviewed the families and came to the understanding that the chromium is the reason why so many people in this area are sick, either with cancer, nose bleeds, tumors and many more dangerous illnesses. She finds out that PG&E pay for all the medical examinations, and she realises that it’s because of the chromium.

Erin, spending most of her time on the case, has no time for her three kids and so her next-door neighbor, George, happens to help out with the babysitting during the day. She sees a goo...

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...ater. In order to help solve this, PG&E decided to provide bottled water to any resident that lives within one mile of the Chromium 6 plume.

Groundwater Cleanup Plan

PG&E claim that it will take 40 years for the cleanup of Chromium. The projects aim is to inject substances like alcohol into the groundwater to stimulate the growth on naturally occurring bacteria. The bacterium turns the Hexavalent Chromium into Trivalent Chromium .

Another clean up plan was to grow more crops . The water is pumped through a drip-irrigation system which where the crop creates conditions that turn the water into Trivalent Chromium.

The process of getting it to Trivalent Chromium, helps with the cleanup due to when the chromium leaves the groundwater, it becomes part of the soil.

PG&E also stated that their holding ponds are lined up to prevent groundwater contamination

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