Tar sands dirty oil and the future of a continent
Record details
- ISBN: 9781553656272 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 155365627X (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource - Edition: Rev. and updated.
- Publisher: Vancouver [B.C.] : Greystone Books, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Declaration of a political emergency -- 1. Canada's great reserve -- 2. It ain't oil -- 3. The vision of Herman Kahn -- 4. Highway to Hell -- 5. The water barons -- 6. The ponds -- 7. The fiction of reclamation -- 8. Dragons and pipelines -- 9. Carbon : a wedding and a funeral -- 10. Nukes for oil! -- 11. The money -- 12. The first law of petropolitics -- 13. Eighth wonder of the world -- 14. Tar age ahead -- Twelve steps to energy sanity -- Afterword -- Sources and further information -- Appendix I : North American oil pipelines -- Appendix II : GHG emissions from U.S. diesel fuel production -- Appendix III : The problem with steam plants -- Acknowledgements -- Index. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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