Tar Sands
Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition
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 best…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-55365-627-2
- EAN: 9781553656272
- Produktnummer: 21848069
- Verlag: Greystone Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 771 KB
- Auflage: Revised Edition
Über den 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.
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