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Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent    
Format Softcover
Catalogue No. 978-1-55365-407-0
Pages 214
Language English only
Price $20.00
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Written by Andrew Nikiforuk.
Published by Greystone Books, 2008. Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.

Description:
In Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change.

Combining extensive scientific research and compelling writing, Andrew Nikiforuk takes the reader to Fort McMurray, home to some of the world's largest open-pit mines, and explores this twenty-first-century pioneer town from the exorbitant cost of housing to its more serious social ills. He uncovers a global Deadwood, complete with rapturous engineers, cut-throat cocaine dealers, aimless bush workers, American evangelicals, and the largest population of homeless people in northern Canada. He also explains that this micro-economy supplies gasoline for 50 percent of Canadian vehicles and 16 percent of U.S. demand.

Andrew Nikiforuk contends that oil sands:
  • burn more carbon than conventional oil,
  • destroy forests and displace woodland caribou,
  • poison the water supply and communities downstream,
  • drain the Athabasca, the river that feeds Canada's largest watershed, and
  • contribute to climate change.
Tar Sands does provide hope, however, and ends with an exploration of possible solutions to the problem.

About the author: For the last two decades Andrew Nikiforuk has written about energy, economics and the west for a variety of Canadian publications including Walrus, Maclean's, Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Georgia Straight, Equinox and Harrowsmith. Nikiforuk's journalism has won seven National Magazine Awards since 1989 and top honors for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists.

  
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