Fossilized: Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces

by Angela V Carter and Angela V. Carter

Book Overview

Thanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Canada's largest oil-producing provinces underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Yet oil's economic miracle obscured its ecological costs. Fossilized traces this development trajectory, assessing how the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, and Labrador offered extensive support for oil development and downplayed its environmental effects. At the height...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774863536
• ISBN13: 9780774863537
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"