Edition |
Rev. and updated. |
Description |
1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Note |
Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Declaration of a political emergency -- 1. Canada's great reserve -- 2. It ain't oil -- 3. The vision of Herman Kahn -- 4. Highway to Hell -- 5. The water barons -- 6. The ponds -- 7. The fiction of reclamation -- 8. Dragons and pipelines -- 9. Carbon: a wedding and a funeral -- 10. Nukes for oil! -- 11. The money -- 12. The first law of petropolitics -- 13. Eighth wonder of the world -- 14. Tar age ahead -- Twelve steps to energy sanity -- Afterword -- Sources and further information -- Appendix I. North American oil pipelines -- Appendix II. GHG emissions from U.S. diesel fuel production -- Appendix III. The problem with steam plants -- Acknowledgements -- Index. |
Summary |
"Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world's most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now owns a lease in the Alberta tar sands. The region has become a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, Muslim extremists, and a huge population of homeless individuals. In this award-winning book, a Canadian bestseller, journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands, arguing forcefully for change. This updated edition includes new chapters on the most energy-inefficient tar sands projects (the steam plants), as well as new material on the controversial carbon cemeteries and nuclear proposals to accelerate bitumen production"--Provided by publisher. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Subject |
Oil sands industry -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.
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Oil sands industry -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
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Oil sands -- Environmental aspects -- Alberta -- Fort McMurray Region.
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Fort McMurray (Alta.) -- Social conditions.
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Human ecology -- Study and teaching.
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Environmental engineering.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Petroleum.
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Oil sands -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01044738
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Oil sands industry -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01044751
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Oil sands industry -- Environmental aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01044753
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Alberta -- Fort McMurray.
(OCoLC)fst01214931
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Alberta -- Fort McMurray Region.
(OCoLC)fst01342064
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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Added Author |
David Suzuki Foundation.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Nikiforuk, Andrew, 1955- Tar sands. Rev. and updated. Vancouver ; Berkeley, [CA] : Greystone Books ; [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, ©2010 9781553655558 (OCoLC)480901940 |
ISBN |
9781553656272 (electronic bk.) |
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155365627X (electronic bk.) |
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