New business councillor volkow page 4 councillor volkow recommended to the committee members a book by andrew nikiforuk entitled tar sands. Early responses to conflict expansion in the oil sands policy subsystem volume 44 issue 3 george hoberg, jeffrey phillips skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. It is a key question that both the harper government and enbridge have preferred to ignore in the hopes. Nikiforuk a 2010 tar sands dirty oil and the future of a continent vancouver bc. The alberta tar sands and jacques elluls theory of technology article pdf available in environmental ethics 371. Andrew nikiforuk tar sands critically examines the frenzied development in the canadian tar sands and the farreaching implications for all of north america. Tar sands and tar sands pipelines can have a major impact on our economy, health and environment. Collapse and revival in a singleindustry community tells of the northern ontario city of elliot lake, once the uranium capital of the world, which was devastated by the closing of the uranium mines operated by denison and rio algom.
The tar sands issue, from a wide boundary perspective isnt really about whether we can affordably in energy or environmental terms get 35 million barrels per day of oil, but that we have used up the lions share of the easily available liquid hydrocarbons, and the juice that grew. Tar tape archive is a unix utility program to read or write multiple files fromto a single file. In this hardhitting book, awardwinning journalist andrew nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change. The publisher of tar sands, greystone books, believes in the books social importance enough to offer it as a free pdf download through friday. Portable document format pdf is a document file format originally from adobe, based on postscript.
In this new edition of his provocative bestseller, andrew nikiforuk assesses recent developments, refutes industrys claim that steam plants are a greener way to extract bitumen, and argues more convincingly than ever. The tar sands, arguably the worlds largest energy project, clearly illustrate the troubling nexus between energy and water. In the long thaw, david archer predicts that if we continue to emit carbon dioxide we may eventually cancel the next ice age and raise the oceans by 50 meters. The oil sands can be either a blessing or a curse to alberta, depending on how they are developed. These oil sands, hosted primarily in the mcmurray formation, consist of a mixture of crude bitumen a semisolid rocklike form of crude oil, silica sand, clay. However, pdf or portable document format file is one of the highly used file. Fresh from his provincial election landslide, alberta premier ed stelmach has snagged a more international and dubious title as runnerup fossil fool of the year, beating out several of north americas top. Available research suggests that indigenous communities feel resigned to. Geotechnical and geophysical site characterization 4.
Tar sands critically examines the frenzied development in the canadian tar sands and the farreaching implications for all of north america. Environmental impacts of oil sands development in alberta. By understanding tar sands and tar sands pipelines, we. Andrew nikiforuk is a leading investigative journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the past two decades. Dirty oil and the future of the continent an important book. Andrew nikiforuks tar sands and emily carrs klee wyck, and beyond, 40 years. I begin by tracing out how postcold war imaginaries of the tar sands presented the resource as crucial to the future viability of north american democratic. Book exposes the messy conditions of canadas tar sands grist. The athabasca oil sands, also known as the athabasca tar sands, are large deposits of bitumen or extremely heavy crude oil, located in northeastern alberta, canada roughly centred on the boomtown of fort mcmurray.
Dirty oil and the future of a continent by andrew nikiforuk pp. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the tower of babel together, is the worlds most expe. From earthquakes to jessica ernst based on his recent book slick water, a stunning examination of fossil fuel industry and government abuse. Dirty oil and the future of a continent by andrew nikiforuk. This recovery required, and requires, a vision of the region that is long in the making. Here, the z option tells tar to zip the archive as it is created. Strategic encounters the petrostate relies on oil as its fiscal foundation, rather than on the taxes paid by the citizens 2009, andrew nikiforuk, tar sands. Andrew nikiforuk and chris turner prism university of calgary. The potency of the toxins in these ponds was revealed to the world when, in the spring of 2008, five hundred ducks landed on a tailings pond maintained by the canadian oil company syncrude, and all five hundred died. Calgary based journalist and author andrew nikiforuk delivers a powerful and revealing presentation based on his book of the same name on what is really going on with the alberta tar sands.
The sands contain naturally occurring mixtures of sand, clay, water, and a dense and extremely viscous form of petroleum technically referred to as bitumen or colloquially tar due to its similar appearance, odour, and colour. Bitumen, a difficult and dirty hydrocarbon, requires more water for its production and upgrading than conventional light oil. The book is, in essence, a revolting, blushmaking case for canada to develop integrated energy and environmental regulation suitable for the postcarbon age. Andrew nikiforuk is a canadian journalist who has won multiple national magazine awards. Canada now produces more oil than texas or saudi arabia. Bituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. How the tar sands are fueling the global climate crisis. Tips to resolve the problem encountered with your pdf file. Hydraulic fracturing, a highly disruptive technology, has been presented as a novel innovation and economic boom. Hooked on energy dollars, the canadian and alberta governments only make decisions that favor growth of the energy industry, nikiforuk says. In theory the pdf file format is specified in detail and is very precise. His work has appeared in a variety of canadian publications including the walrus, macleans, canadian business, report on business, chatelaine, georgia straight, equinox and harrowsmith. Community economic development simon fraser university. Tar sands bitumen is extracted in canada and is transported by pipeline through minnesota and wisconsin and points further south.
Tar sands need solid science tar sands need solid science schindler, david 20101124 00. Host stephanie potter speaks with andrew nikiforuk, author of tar sands. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the tower of babel together, is the worldocos most expensive hydrocarbon. The sierra club estimated, between 2010 and 2012, northern midwestern pipelines transporting the greatest volumes of tar sands crude spilled 3. Dirty oil and the future of a continent, revised and updated edition. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the tower of babel together, is the worlds most expensive hydrocarbon.
Ercb letter and tar sands download this response as a pdf the ercb has accused andrew nikiforuk of making a number of factual errors in his book tar sands and has posted a long letter enumerating them on its web site. Cambridge core natural resource and environmental economics climate change, capitalism, and corporations by christopher wright. His work has appeared in saturday night, macleans, canadian business, report on business, chatelaine, alberta views, equinox, alternatives journal and canadian family, and in both national newspapers. The central issue for the haisla nation is their sovereignty over their territory and their right to be properly consulted. Now it is a common storage method for bundling and transporting sets of files. From wade daviss a light at the edge of the world to david suzukis the sacred balance. This difficulttofind resource has made canada the numberone supplier of oil to the united states, and every. Yet this outofcontrol megaproject is polluting the air, poisoning the water, and destroying boreal forest at a rate almost too rapid to be imagined. The unrestrained release of greenhouse gases ghgs from the burning of fossil fuels now threatens the political stability of human civilization. Pdf unconventional oil is frequently presented as the future of. Nikiforuk and chris turner, two leading albertan environmental writ ers with distinct approaches to. Dirty oil and the future of a continent ts by andrew nikiforuk.
Alternatively, if your system does not use gnu tar, but nonetheless does have gzip, you can still create a compressed tar file, via the following command. As reported on northwest coast energy news, the haisla nation has filed a legal document outlining their opposition to enbridges northern gateway pipeline. Dirty oil and the future of a continent, revised and updated edition andrew nikiforuk on. In addition tar sands production exerts negative externalities on the region afflicted with construction and operation of tar sands. We draw on a range of recent published and unpublished sources. Dirty oil and the future of a continent a couple of years ago, while most canadians were out shovelling the sidewalk or sipping a coffee at tim. The book is a critical expose of the worlds largest energy project the. Andrew nikiforuk s nova scotia tour join awardwinning journalist and author andrew nikiforuk for a presentation the legacy of fracking. The ercb has accused andrew nikiforuk of making a number of factual errors in his book tar sands and has posted a long letter enumerating them on its web site. Andrew nikiforukwhether nuclear energy presents a legitimate alternative to. Applying rock physics tools to reduce interpretation risk. In the lush, sweeping boreal forest in the athabasca valley northeast of edmonton, tension is.
Albertas lack of public investment of oil revenue is essentially the opposite of norways planning for the future. Andrew nikiforuk is an awardwinning canadian journalist who has been writing about the oil and gas industry for more than two decades. Canadian tar sand oil is dirtier and more environmentally destructive than conventional oil. Reading data pa driver manual pdf from a pdf file using java. We find that social science research on oil sands extraction has been inadequate, even as the region has undergone transformation. Comparison of emissions of tar sands and select eu countries, in mt co2eq. To me the environmental, energy, economic trifecta is an extremely tangled web. A humandriven, planetwide thaw has already begun, and will continue to impact earths climate and sea level for hundreds of thousands of years. In addition, tarmageddon is written with a wellput together structure, including information written in order from lesser importance to most important ideas. The unregulated, poorly monitored royalty rates dropped so low that in 20012004 the alberta government actually made more money from video lottery terminals than the tar sands nikiforuk 159. In the service of growing the tar sands, the canadian government gives tax breaks to the worst polluters. In 1990 the toronto star newspaper awarded him an atkinson fellowship in public. Given that nikiforuks paper has the capability of persuasion, the article has a considerable impact on many individuals who are concerned about the effects of the tar sands.
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