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. However, pdf or portable document format file is one of the highly used file. 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. The sierra club estimated, between 2010 and 2012, northern midwestern pipelines transporting the greatest volumes of tar sands crude spilled 3. Andrew nikiforuk tar sands critically examines the frenzied development in the canadian tar sands and the farreaching implications for all of north america. 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. In addition tar sands production exerts negative externalities on the region afflicted with construction and operation of tar sands. Cambridge core natural resource and environmental economics climate change, capitalism, and corporations by christopher wright. The book is a critical expose of the worlds largest energy project the. To me the environmental, energy, economic trifecta is an extremely tangled web. The publisher of tar sands, greystone books, believes in the books social importance enough to offer it as a free pdf download through friday. Dirty oil and the future of a continent ts by andrew nikiforuk. Tar sands and tar sands pipelines can have a major impact on our economy, health and environment.
As reported on northwest coast energy news, the haisla nation has filed a legal document outlining their opposition to enbridges northern gateway pipeline. Andrew nikiforuks tar sands and emily carrs klee wyck, and beyond, 40 years. Dirty oil and the future of a continent lays bare the idiocy of this malignant neglect. Hooked on energy dollars, the canadian and alberta governments only make decisions that favor growth of the energy industry, nikiforuk says. 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. The alberta tar sands and jacques elluls theory of technology article pdf available in environmental ethics 371. In the service of growing the tar sands, the canadian government gives tax breaks to the worst polluters. Andrew nikiforuk is an awardwinning canadian journalist who has been writing about the oil and gas industry for more than two decades. Tar sands bitumen is extracted in canada and is transported by pipeline through minnesota and wisconsin and points further south. Albertas lack of public investment of oil revenue is essentially the opposite of norways planning for the future. In 1990 the toronto star newspaper awarded him an atkinson fellowship in public. From earthquakes to jessica ernst based on his recent book slick water, a stunning examination of fossil fuel industry and government abuse. New business councillor volkow page 4 councillor volkow recommended to the committee members a book by andrew nikiforuk entitled tar sands.
Host stephanie potter speaks with andrew nikiforuk, author of tar sands. 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. We draw on a range of recent published and unpublished sources. The central issue for the haisla nation is their sovereignty over their territory and their right to be properly consulted. Geotechnical and geophysical site characterization 4. 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. This will also reflect negatively on the writing giving. A proposal for the political economy of green criminology.
Bitumen, a difficult and dirty hydrocarbon, requires more water for its production and upgrading than conventional light oil. Here, the z option tells tar to zip the archive as it is created. Tar sands need solid science tar sands need solid science schindler, david 20101124 00. 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.
Environmental impacts of oil sands development in alberta. Bituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Tar sands critically examines the frenzied development in the canadian tar sands and the farreaching implications for all of north america. Nikiforuk and chris turner, two leading albertan environmental writ ers with distinct approaches to. Hydraulic fracturing, a highly disruptive technology, has been presented as a novel innovation and economic boom.
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. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the tower of babel together, is the worlds most expensive hydrocarbon. Portable document format pdf is a document file format originally from adobe, based on postscript. Dirty oil and the future of a continent by andrew nikiforuk. From wade daviss a light at the edge of the world to david suzukis the sacred balance. Dirty oil and the future of the continent an important book. Applying rock physics tools to reduce interpretation risk. Andrew nikiforuk s nova scotia tour join awardwinning journalist and author andrew nikiforuk for a presentation the legacy of fracking. This difficulttofind resource has made canada the numberone supplier of oil to the united states, and every. It takes water to produce energy, and it takes energy to move, pump, and treat water. Nikiforuk a 2010 tar sands dirty oil and the future of a continent vancouver bc. By understanding tar sands and tar sands pipelines, we.
Tar tape archive is a unix utility program to read or write multiple files fromto a single file. 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. This recovery required, and requires, a vision of the region that is long in the making. Andrew nikiforuk is a canadian journalist who has won multiple national magazine awards. The unrestrained release of greenhouse gases ghgs from the burning of fossil fuels now threatens the political stability of human civilization. Canada now produces more oil than texas or saudi arabia. Andrew nikiforukwhether nuclear energy presents a legitimate alternative to. In addition, tarmageddon is written with a wellput together structure, including information written in order from lesser importance to most important ideas. 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.
The tar sands, arguably the worlds largest energy project, clearly illustrate the troubling nexus between energy and water. Comparison of emissions of tar sands and select eu countries, in mt co2eq. 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. Andrew nikiforuk is a leading investigative journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the past two decades. 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. Dirty oil and the future of a continent, revised and updated edition. Pdf unconventional oil is frequently presented as the future of. Tips to resolve the problem encountered with your pdf file. 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.
Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the tower of babel together, is the worlds most expe. Overview of the tar sands of alberta how bitumen is processed. Now it is a common storage method for bundling and transporting sets of files. The oil sands can be either a blessing or a curse to alberta, depending on how they are developed. In 2002, the athabasca tar sands in alberta were reclassified as recoverable. We find that social science research on oil sands extraction has been inadequate, even as the region has undergone transformation. Canadian tar sand oil is dirtier and more environmentally destructive than conventional oil. Andrew nikiforuk and chris turner prism university of calgary. How the tar sands are fueling the global climate crisis. 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. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the tower of babel together, is the worldocos most expensive hydrocarbon. 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.
Community economic development simon fraser university. Inevitable extraction, colonial security, and the making. 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. Dirty oil and the future of a continent, revised and updated edition andrew nikiforuk on. 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 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. Reading data pa driver manual pdf from a pdf file using java. Available research suggests that indigenous communities feel resigned to.
A humandriven, planetwide thaw has already begun, and will continue to impact earths climate and sea level for hundreds of thousands of years. 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. Dirty oil and the future of a continent by andrew nikiforuk pp. 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. Originally, this was used to move a whole directory of files tofrom a magnetic tape. It is a key question that both the harper government and enbridge have preferred to ignore in the hopes. The book is, in essence, a revolting, blushmaking case for canada to develop integrated energy and environmental regulation suitable for the postcarbon age. 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. 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. 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. In theory the pdf file format is specified in detail and is very precise.
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