Energy Policy
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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! Standing on Guard for Our WatersOttawa's Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil From: 1968 in Canada |
The discovery of massive quantities of recoverable oil on the north slope of Alaska in July 1968 and competing shipping alternatives to transit the hydrocarbons south, through or adjacent to … | Christopher Kirkey | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Step One: Face Climate Truth |
In Chapter One the author discusses the potential for the climate emergency to become an emotional burden. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 32 | 2023 | $3.20 Add |
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From Step Three: Reimagine Your Life Story |
In Chapter Three the author describes the process of re-assessing ones relationship to the climate emergency. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From Step Two: Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings |
In Chapter Two the author delves deeper into the emotions associated with climate emergency, and how to address negative feelings surrounding the topic. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 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  The Big ShiftFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … | Tony Clarke | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
 The Big StallHow big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada |
This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil … | 304 | View | ||
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From  NEW! “The hostility in the room”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the charged atmosphere of late April and early May 1981, when the federal government clashed with Alberta over the National Energy Program (as told by the diary … | Ron Graham | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From  The NDP in a World Made for OilFrom: Oi's Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the rise of Rachel Notley’s NDP party in Alberta with focus on the change in policy towards the oil industry that occurred during the … | Kevin Taft | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From The New GospelFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business … | Donald Gutstein | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From  The sun does not shine at nightFrom: Between Doom and Denial |
In this chapter, Leach examines the promise and limits of solar and wind power in Canada’s push toward a net-zero electricity sector by 2035. | Andrew Leach | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
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From The world will always use (enough of our) oil and gasFrom: Between Doom and Denial |
In this chapter, Leach examines Canada’s oil and gas future amid climate action, arguing that while fossil fuel use will persist, the volume and price will decline sharply. | Andrew Leach | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From NEW! “There will be no honeymoon”From: The Coutts Diaries |
In this chapter, Graham examines the first three weeks of the 1980 Liberal government, from March 4 to March 27 (as told by the diary of Jim Coutts, Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudea’s … | Ron Graham | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! “They Had No Intention of Ever Coming to an Agreement”Voices of Unifor 594 Workers From: Unjust Transition |
Chapter Three explores the the complex and contentious relationship between labor, capital, and the environment in the fossil fuel industry, in the wake of the 2019-2020 lockout of Unifor Local … | Andrew Steven; Emily Eaton; Sean Tucker | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
