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The Tar Sands Diplomat

Author : Keith Halliday
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491792655
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Tar Sands Diplomat written by Keith Halliday and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russians have a plan to kill Canadian oil exports. And Canada has a diplomat clueless enough to stop them. Macgregor is on a dream posting to Brussels, until a red-haired Russian prostitute dramatically murders the Canadian Missions star diplomat and plunges Macgregor into a world of spooks, Russian oligarchs and eco-hacktivists. After Ottawa sends the G-7s least competent security team to Brussels to investigate, Macgregor realizes thatfor the first time in his careerhe actually has to do something. Fortunately he has something no one else does: Ottawas biggest collection of spy novels. Unable to penetrate the digital defenses of the opposition, or even operate his own Blackberry, Macgregor falls back on spy-novel classics: disguises, midnight burglaries and hidden microphones. To his surprise, they lead him towards the truth. Unfortunately for Macgregor, they also lead him towards a well-connected Canadian oil company and the Prime Ministers Office back in Ottawa.

Line in the Tar Sands

Author : Joshua Kahn
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629630454
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Line in the Tar Sands written by Joshua Kahn and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tar sands “development” comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. In the tar sands of Alberta, the oil industry is using vast quantities of water and natural gas to produce synthetic crude oil, creating drastically high levels of greenhouse gas emissions and air and water pollution. But tar sands opponents—fighting a powerful international industry—are likened to terrorists, government environmental scientists are muzzled, and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Yet, despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to Indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. Including leading voices involved in the struggle against the tar sands, A Line in the Tar Sands offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective resistance. Contributors include: Greg Albo, Sâkihitowin Awâsis, Toban Black, Rae Breaux, Jeremy Brecher, Linda Capato, Jesse Cardinal, Angela V. Carter, Emily Coats, Stephen D’Arcy, Yves Engler, Cherri Foytlin, Sonia Grant, Harjap Grewal, Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Ryan Katz-Rosene, Naomi Klein, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Winona LaDuke, Crystal Lameman, Christine Leclerc, Kerry Lemon, Matt Leonard, Martin Lukacs, Tyler McCreary, Bill McKibben, Yudith Nieto, Joshua Kahn Russell, Macdonald Stainsby, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Brian Tokar, Dave Vasey, Harsha Walia, Tony Weis, Rex Weyler, Will Wooten, Jess Worth, and Lilian Yap. The editors’ proceeds from this book will be donated to frontline grassroots environmental justice groups and campaigns.

Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats

Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774868589
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats written by Patrice Dutil and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as disparate unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea that creates alignment. And because the prime minister is typically the one proposing that idea, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders. Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ministers from Sir John A. Macdonald to Justin Trudeau have shaped foreign policy by manipulating government structures, adopting and rejecting options, and imprinting their personalities on the process. Contributors consider the impact of a wide range of policy decisions – increasing or decreasing department budgets, forming or ending alliances, and pursuing trade relationships – particularly as these choices affected the bureaucracies that deliver foreign policy diplomatically and militarily. This innovative focus is destined to trigger a new appreciation for the formidable personal attention and acuity involved in a successful approach to external affairs.

When Green Growth Is Not Enough

Author : Anders Hayden
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773596348
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book When Green Growth Is Not Enough written by Anders Hayden and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough, Anders Hayden analyzes the political battle between three competing approaches to this question and how it has played out in Canada and Britain. Defenders of the "business-as-usual" approach reject climate action as too costly and in conflict with economic growth, while downplaying the severity of climate change. Supporters of ecological modernization, or "green growth," on the other hand, aim to use technology and efficiency to delink economic expansion from emissions and find business opportunities through environmental action. While mainstream debate has focused on these two pro-growth models, Hayden pays particular attention to the struggles and limited inroads of a third, more radical perspective: the idea of sufficiency, which challenges the continued growth of production and consumption in the already-affluent global North and asks, how much is enough? Drawing on interviews, participation in climate-related events, and analysis of key documents, Hayden shows the role these paradigms have played in Britain, one of the world’s leaders in climate reform, and in Canada, a nation at the bottom of international climate change rankings. Rich in detail, When Green Growth Is Not Enough is a lively account of the theory and real-world politics of climate action.

Energy Fact Book, 1976

Author : Tetra Tech, Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Fact Book, 1976 written by Tetra Tech, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Energy Fact Book

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Energy Fact Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements

Author : Maria Grasso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000517942
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements written by Maria Grasso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world, macrostructural conditions and processes underlying their mobilization, the microstructural and social-psychological dimensions of environmental movements and activism, and current trends, as well as prospects for environmental movements and social change. The handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understanding of environmental movements and activism. It encourages dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between social movement studies and other perspectives and reflects upon the causes and consequences of citizens’ participation in environmental movements and activities. The volume brings historical studies of environmentalism, sociological analyses of the social composition of participants in and sympathizers of environmental movements, investigations by political scientists on the conditions and processes underlying environmental movements and activism, and other disciplinary inquiries together, while keeping a clear focus within social movement theory and research as the main lines of inquiry. The handbook is an essential guide and reference point not only for researchers but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.

Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada

Author : Meenal Shrivastava
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771990295
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada written by Meenal Shrivastava and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.

Tar Wars

Author : Geo Takach
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772121401
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Tar Wars written by Geo Takach and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tar Wars offers a critical, inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate the escalating tensions between the need for continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As representations of a place and its identity assume paramount importance in a globalized, visual, and increasingly ecologically conscious society, a rising, international battle unfolds over Alberta's bituminous sands, pitting independent documentary filmmakers against professional communicators employed by the oil industry and government. Tar Wars will engage scholars and students in communications, film, environmental studies, social psychology, and petrocultures. It also reaches out to decision-makers, activists, and those who wish to explore the intersections of energy, environment, culture, politics, economy, media, and power in the world today.

Alternative Fuels for Aviation

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Subcommittee on Aerospace Technology and National Needs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Fuels for Aviation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Subcommittee on Aerospace Technology and National Needs and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oil Sands Scientist: The Letters of Karl A. Clark, 1920-1949

Author : Mary Clark Sheppard
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642288
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Oil Sands Scientist: The Letters of Karl A. Clark, 1920-1949 written by Mary Clark Sheppard and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1989 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of leters from the early 1920s to the late 1940s by Dr. Karl A. Clark chronicles the development of the hot water separation process for producing oil from the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta.

Developing Alberta's Oil Sands

Author : Paul Anthony Chastko
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381242
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Developing Alberta's Oil Sands written by Paul Anthony Chastko and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that examines the origins and development of the oil sands industry over the last century.

American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands

Author : George A. Gonzalez
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137539569
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book American Empire and the Canadian Oil Sands written by George A. Gonzalez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the US oil and gas shale are being 'hydrofracked' to produce petroleum and natural gas. Oil (or tar) sands from Canada is being 'processed' – thereby generating large amounts of crude. This book places the unconventional fossil fuels revolution that is taking place in North America within the context of great power politics.

Economic Diplomacy

Author : M. S. Daoudi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429717822
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Economic Diplomacy written by M. S. Daoudi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1983 collapse of world oil prices revived memories of a time only a decade earlier when the price of a barrel of oil did not exceed three dollars. By the late 1970s, spot market prices had reached peaks of forty dollars a barrel. A major role in creating these new realities was played by the 1973/1974 Arab oil embargo, which formed the psychological, political, and market conditions for the dramatic price surge. This important study probes the embargo in detail, thoroughly examining its history, the motivations that caused it, and its ripple effect on world politics and the international economic order. The authors carefully examine the interruption of oil supplies to Western Europe during the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, the growing momentum of Arab oil leverage beginning with the First Arab Petroleum Congress in 1959, the decline of the oil companies' domination of the petroleum industry, and the Arab political environment between the 1967 Arab defeat and the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The book concludes with a chapter addressing the lessons to be learned from these recent embargoes.

Canada 2019-2020

Author :
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475852509
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Canada 2019-2020 written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an annually updated presentation of Canada past and present continues to provide the reader an in-depth look at the country’s culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students. Now in its 35th edition, the content is thorough yet perfect for a one-semester introductory course or general library reference. Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit student and library budgets.

Canada 2022–2023

Author : P. T. Babie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538165910
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Canada 2022–2023 written by P. T. Babie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Today Series: Canada is an annually updated presentation of Canada. It provides the reader an in-depth look at the country’s culture, geography, people, economy, politics and future. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors and students.

China's Strategic Interests in the South China Sea

Author : Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317999398
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book China's Strategic Interests in the South China Sea written by Sigfrido Burgos Cáceres and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title will explore China’s strategic interests in the South China Sea, with a specific emphasis on power projection and resource security. China’s regional actions and reactions are reshaping the power dynamics in East and South-East Asia, while economic and geopolitical futures depend on the variegated outcomes of these complex relationships with neighbours and the West. An introductory section will be complemented by four case studies (Japan, Vietnam, the USA and the Philippines) and the concluding chapter will discuss the importance of the South China Sea to China as its new leadership deals with growing economic and military might.