Developing Alberta's Oil Sands

From Karl Clark to Kyoto

Paul Chastko (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

2007
University of Calgary Press (Verlag)
978-1-55238-244-8 (ISBN)

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Alberta's oil sands represent a vast and untapped oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for the next 475 years. This book is the first comprehensive volume to examine the origins and development of the oil sands industry over the last century.

Alberta's oil sands represent a vast and untapped oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for the next 475 years. With an estimated 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil at stake, the quest to develop this natural resource has been undertaken by many powerful actors, both nationally and internationally. Using research that integrates the economic, political, scientific, and business factors that have been influential in discovering and developing the sands, this book provides a comprehensive history of the oil sands project and a window on the nature of the complex relationships between industry, government, and transnational players. This book is the first comprehensive volume to examine the origins and development of the oil sands industry over the last century.

Paul Chastko is a research fellow in the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.

List of Tables
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introductions
Part 1: 1920-45
Early History of the Oil Sands in Alberta
Abasand and the Federal-Provincial Conflict
Picking up the Pieces: Reclaiming a Provincial Resource
Part 2: Since 1945
From Scientific Project to Commercial Endeavour
"Within Reach" and "Beyond Reach" Markets: The Reluctant Expansion of the Oil Sands, 1960-69
Flexibility and Paralysis: The Oil Shocks, Government Policy and Intervention, 1970-77
Lost Decade: The National Energy Program and the Collapse of World Oil Prices
Competition's "Cold Shoer": Remaking the Oil Sands Industry in the Era of Globalization and Free Trade, 1984-2000
Green Patch? Oil Sands Development in Post-Kyoto Canada
Afterward
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Zusatzinfo	7 tables, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Calgary
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 229 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-55238-244-3 / 1552382443
ISBN-13	978-1-55238-244-8 / 9781552382448
Zustand	Neuware