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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Turner, Chris, 1973-     Subjects     Oil sands industry -- Social aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands industry -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands industry -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands industry -- Economic aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands -- Environmental aspects -- Alberta -- Fort McMurray Region.     Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Turner, Chris, 1973-       by title:      The Patch : the peop...       by call number:      333.8232 T945p     Search the Web     Turner, Chris, 1973-     Oil sands industry -- Social aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands industry -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands industry -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands industry -- Economic aspects -- Canada.     Oil sands -- Environmental aspects -- Alberta -- Fort McMurray Region.     Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.)       MARC Display

The Patch : the people, pipelines and politics of the oil sands / Chris Turner. by Turner, Chris, 1973- Simon and Schuster, 2017. Call #: 333.8232 T945p Subjects Oil sands industry -- Social aspects -- Canada.   Oil sands industry -- Environmental aspects -- Canada.   Oil sands industry -- Political aspects -- Canada.   Oil sands industry -- Economic aspects -- Canada.   Oil sands -- Environmental aspects -- Alberta -- Fort McMurray Region.   Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.) ISBN:  9781501115097 (hc.) Description:  340 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Summary:  "In its heyday, the oil sands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oil sands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. The future seemed limitless for the city and those who drew their wealth from the bitumen-rich wilderness. But in 2008, a new narrative for the oilsands emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the scientific reality of the Patch's effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combatting climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviews - one of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardship - each backed by major players on the world stage. An account of this ongoing conflict, showing just how far the oil sands reaches into all of our lives. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it requires us to ask: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch? Chris Turner is the author of The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need and Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation. He lives in Calgary"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 333.8232 T945p Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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