Alberta Tar Sands
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From ![]() Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 8 Harjap Grewal focuses on the Canadian responses to Chinese investments in the tar sands, exploring topics including international trade agreements, xenophobia and the history of … | Harjap Grewal | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Secondary Targeting: A Strategic Approach to Tar Sands ResistancePart III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 26 Stephan D’Arcy examines strategies to tar sand resistance by Indigenous communities, environmental NGOs, trade unions, and community defence organizations, and how to bring it … | Stephen D'Arcy | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 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 ![]() NEW! Taking Stock of Where We Are At and What Stands in Our WayFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: What’s Working and What’s Not Working in Our Movements – The Barriers to Decolonizing and Decarbonizing Canada – Note | Jen Gobby | 39 | 2020 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() Tar Sands, Extreme Energy, and the Future of the Climate MovementPart III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 28 Brian Tokar explores lessons from the past and how this can be used in fighting the tar sands, discussing topics including the “No Nukes” movement in North America, … | Brian Tokar | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
![]() 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 … | 312 | View | ||
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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 ![]() The Enbridge Pipeline Disaster and Accidental Activism along the Kalamazoo RiverPart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 18 Sonia Grant focuses on the oil spill into the Kalamazoo River and the controversies that surrounded cleanup efforts. It discusses topics such the health impacts and gaps in … | Sonia Grant | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Environmental NGO Industry and Frontline CommunitiesPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 5 Dave Vasey reflects on the deep historical narrative of activism, examining the relationship between environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and tar sands campaigns, and … | Dave Vasey | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Last Tar Sands PipelineFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
A Pipeline Runs Through It – Sandpiper Timeline – Not Minnesota Nice – Palisade: Let’s Be Good Neighbors – The Necessity Defense – Whispering Dirty Secrets: … | Winona LaDuke | 110 | 2020 | $11.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Rise of Reactionary Environmentalism in the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 3 Ryan Katz-Rosene examines how federal and provincial governments alongside industry and high-profile apologists have constructed narratives by reframing environmental concerns. … | Ryan Katz-Rosene | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Rise of the Native Rights–Based Strategic Framework: Our Last Best Hope to Save Our Water, Air, and EarthPart III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 22 Clayton Thomas-Muller examines how the present environmental framework is being developed from native rights, discussing the cost of loss of ecosystems, the global climate crisis, … | Clayton Thomas-Muller | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() The Tar Sands Healing WalkPart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 12 Jesse Cardinal discusses and explores healing, through topics such as Tar Sands Healing Walk. | Jesse Cardinal | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 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 |
![]() 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 … | 320 | View | ||
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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 |







