Tar Sands (eBook)

Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

Andrew Nikiforuk (Autor)

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2010 | Revised Edition
240 Seiten
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-55365-627-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 worlds 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.

Autor

Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include Pandemonium, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Oil, which won the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses, which won critical raves in England, Canada and the United States. His work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean's, Report on Business, Harrowsmith, The National Post, and in The Globe and Mail.

Inhalt

Declaration of a Political Emergency 11 Canada’s Great Reserve 62 It Ain’t Oil 113 The Vision of Herman Kahn 184 Highway to Hell 385 The Water Barons 606 The Ponds 827 The Fiction of Reclamation 1028 Dragons and Pipelines 1129 Carbon: A Wedding and a Funeral 12710 Nukes for Oil! 14611 The Money 15712 The First Law of Petropolitics 17113 Eighth Wonder of the World 18714 Tar Age Ahead 192Twelve Steps to Energy Sanity 200Afterword 206Sources and Further Information 220Appendix i: North American Oil Pipelines 244Appendix ii: ghg Emissions frm U.S. Diesel Fuel Production 246Appendix iii: The Problem with Steam Plants 247Acknowledgements 257Index 259

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2010
• Reihe/Serie: David Suzuki Institute
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-10: 1-55365-627-X / 155365627X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-55365-627-2 / 9781553656272