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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Poitras, Jacques, 1968-     Subjects     Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Petroleum pipelines -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Petroleum pipelines -- Social aspects -- Canada.     Environmentalism -- Canada.     Global warming -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Energy industries -- Canada -- Forecasting.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Poitras, Jacques, 1968-       by title:      Pipe dreams : the fi...       by call number:      338.27282 P757p     Search the Web     Poitras, Jacques, 1968-     Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Petroleum pipelines -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Petroleum pipelines -- Social aspects -- Canada.     Environmentalism -- Canada.     Global warming -- Political aspects -- Canada.     Energy industries -- Canada -- Forecasting.       MARC Display

Pipe dreams : the fight for Canada's energy future / Jacques Poitras. by Poitras, Jacques, 1968- Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, 2018. Call #: 338.27282 P757p Subjects Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects -- Canada.   Petroleum pipelines -- Political aspects -- Canada.   Petroleum pipelines -- Social aspects -- Canada.   Environmentalism -- Canada.   Global warming -- Political aspects -- Canada.   Energy industries -- Canada -- Forecasting. ISBN:  9780735233355 (hc.) Description:  xviii, 318 p. : maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "A timely, accessible approach to how Canada's oil pipelines become crucibles for debate about our energy future, Indigenous treaty rights, environmental activism, and east-west political tensions. Pipe Dreams is the story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline. The project was to be a monumental undertaking, beginning near Edmonton, AB, and stretching over four thousand kilometres, across two hundred First Nation reserves, through Montreal to the Irving Oil refineries in Saint John, NB. The crude oil flowing across six provinces would have found a much higher price shipped to world markets than south to the United States. Conceived as a back-up plan for two other pipelines stalled by political opposition, the project became the crucible for Canada's debate over its energy future. Told as an account of a cross-country journey, the book explores how western Canada alienation, Quebec separatism, Indigenous activism, and climate action combined to question the role of fossil fuels in Canada's economy. The events took place at a time when the government of Canada, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was expressing its commitment to a carbon-reduced economy. Across the landscape of Pipe Dreams, Poitras talks to oil industry executives, prairie ranchers, First Nations chiefs, small-town mayors, premiers and cabinet ministers, refinery workers, and ordinary Canadians. The book also explores Canada's perplexing relationship with the United States around oil: our oil industry is literally tied to its American counterpart with sinews of steel. The Energy East pipeline represented a new direction: designed to get Alberta oil sands crude to world markets, it was marketed in explicitly nationalist terms. After decades of rhetoric that Canada was destined to surrender to the north-south reality of continentalism and globalization, the country seemed to be reorienting itself along its east-west axis, tying itself together, again, with a great feat of engineering. To listen to the premiers of Alberta and New Brunswick, it was a journey both new and familiar, akin to John A. Macdonald's national dream of a cross-country railway. Their optimism was palpable. But it didn't--perhaps it couldn't--last. By the time the journey ended, the story had become a kind of whodunit: Poitras would witness the slow-motion killing of the fifteen billion dollar project--a series of blows dealt not just to a single pipeline proposal, but to Canada's carbon economy. It was a death that also signaled, perhaps, the birth of something new."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.27282 P757p Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 338.27282 P757p Adult books Checked out Jul 15, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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