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Tar sands : dirty oil and the future of a continent  Cover Image Book Book

Tar sands : dirty oil and the future of a continent / Andrew Nikiforuk.

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  • ISBN: 1553654072 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781553654070 :
  • ISBN: 9781553654070 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 214 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Vancouver : Greystone Books, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Declaration of a political emergency -- Canada's great reserve -- It ain't oil -- Vision of Herman Kahn -- Highway to hell -- Water barons -- The ponds -- The fiction of reclamation -- Dragons and pipelines -- Carbon: a wedding and a funeral -- Nukes for oil! -- The money -- First law of petropolitics -- Eighth wonder of the world -- Tar age ahead -- Twelve steps to energy sanity -- Sources and further information -- Appendix: North American oil pipelines.
Subject: Oil sands industry > Economic aspects > Canada.
Oil sands industry > Economic aspects > Canada.
Oil sands industry > Environmental aspects > Canada.
Oil sands > Environmental aspects > Alberta > Fort McMurray Region.
Fort McMurray (Alta.) > Social conditions.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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