Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar SandsCostly 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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Contents
A NeoLiberal Klondike | 1 |
Market Fundamentalism and the State | 14 |
State Capital and the Foundations of Exploiting the Tar Sands | 30 |
Building Canadas Oil Factory Reregulating the Tar Sands | 64 |
Landscape of Sacrifice The Environmental Consequences of Reregulating the Tar Sands | 103 |
First Nations Resistance and Compromise | 138 |
Prison Break? The Political Economy of Royalty Reform | 175 |
Taking Environmental Issues Abroad Toxic Tailings Dead Ducks | 199 |
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| Title | Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands |
| Author | Ian Thomas Urquhart |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press, 2018 |
| ISBN | 1487594615, 9781487594619 |
| Length | 364 pages |
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