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 |
 NEW! More Powerful TogetherConversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders |
How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved … | Jen Gobby | 250 | 2020 | 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 |
 NEW! To Be A Water ProtectorThe Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers |
Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of … | Winona LaDuke | 320 | 2020 | 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 NEW! IntroductionFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
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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 NEW! Thinking Together About Changing EverythingFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Global Climate and Inequality Crises – This Research Project – Working Towards Decolonial Research Practice – This Book | Jen Gobby | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 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 NEW! Omaa Akiing: Here On EarthFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
Winter Count – How to Be Better Ancestors – The Holy Land Is Here – The Month You Remember Me | Winona LaDuke | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! The Climate And Inequality Crises in CanadaFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Climate Crisis and Oil and Gas Development in Canada – Ongoing Impacts of Settler Colonialism in Canada – Social Movements in Canada | Jen Gobby | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 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 NEW! RelativesFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
Seeds of Hope: Mino Gitigaaning – Omaakaakii: In Praise of Frogs – I Miss You – Free the Snake – How Do We Grieve the Death of a River? – Amazon Should Save the … | Winona LaDuke | 58 | 2020 | $5.80 Add |
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From NEW! Understanding the CrisesFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Uneven Impacts of Pipeline Development, Environmental Destruction and Climate Disruption – Structures and Systems that Drive Climate Injustice … | Jen Gobby | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 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 |
