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Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands

Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands

Urquhart, Ian

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1487594615
ISBN13: 9781487594619
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Jan 29 2018
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues. It considers the position of First Nations, the character and strength of environmental critiques, and the difficulties that environmental groups and First Nations have had in establishing a countermovement to market fundamentalism. The final chapter discusses how Alberta's new NDP government, in its first couple of years, has addressed the legacies they have inherited from the previous Progressive Conservative government on climate change, royalties, and the blight of tailings ponds in the boreal forest. Throughout the book, Urquhart demonstrates that too many actors have done too little to prevent Alberta's boreal forest from becoming a landscape sacrificed for unsustainable economic growth.

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