Alberta Tar Sands
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Getting to ZeroCanada Confronts Global Warming |
In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He … | Tony Clarke | 248 | 2018 | View |
 Tar Sands ShowdownCanada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change |
Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four … | Tony Clarke | 312 | 2008 | View |
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From IntroductionFrom: Getting to Zero |
Identifies how the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray should cause Canada to confront climate change. Discusses how oil sand production has increased and why this needs to change for Canada to … | Tony Clarke | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From PrefaceFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the … | Tony Clarke | 6 | 2008 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Big Oil Takes ControlFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the rise of neo-liberalism think tanks in Canada and their impact on energy policy through the 1970s and 1980s. Trudeau’s Keynesian interventions such as the NEP and Petro Canada … | Donald Gutstein | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From Crude AwakeningFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter covers the early development of the tar sands with the following subsections: (a) black gold: the pioneers who developed the technology to extract oil from the tar sands; (b) land … | Tony Clarke | 38 | 2008 | $3.80 Add |
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From A Triple CrisisFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter discusses the convergence of three global and potentially deadly crises with implications for the development of the tar sands: (a) peak oil: the end of cheap, abundant supplies of … | Tony Clarke | 38 | 2008 | $3.80 Add |
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From Energy SuperpowerFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter concerns the promotion of Canada as “the world’s next energy superpower,” largely because of the development of the tar sands, with these themes: (a) corporate … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
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From Fuelling AmericaFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter argues that the prime reason for the rapid development of the tar sands is to provide a secure source of oil supplies for the US. Its sections are (a) America’s oil addiction: … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
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From Ecological NightmareFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter discusses the multiple forms of environmental damage caused by the massive development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) global warming: the emergence of the tar … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
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From Social UpheavalFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the … | Tony Clarke | 39 | 2008 | $3.90 Add |
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From Resistance MovementFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various … | Tony Clarke | 35 | 2008 | $3.50 Add |
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From Dream ChangeFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for … | Tony Clarke | 40 | 2008 | $4.00 Add |
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From  Duped and HowA Case Study: Foreign-Funded Radicals |
Never has there been a greater disparity between what scientists say we should be concerned about and what members of government and the oil and gas industry are doing. In this case study I … | James Hoggan | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sandsFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … | Kevin Taft | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From Oil Sands Binges, RebrandsFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the relationship between the oil industry and the Alberta government. The industry’s approach shifted to accepting a cap on carbon emissions which permitted ongoing operations and … | Donald Gutstein | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
