Fossilized
Environmental Policy in Canada's Petro-Provinces
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2020
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6352-0 (ISBN)
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-6352-0 (ISBN)
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Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador – blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 – undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction.
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, and Newfoundland and Labrador offered extensive support for oil-industry development, and exploring the often downplayed environmental effects of extraction.
Angela Carter investigates overarching institutional trends, such as the restructuring of departments that prioritized extraction over environmental protection, and identifies regulatory inadequacies related to environmental assessment, land-use planning, and emissions controls. Her detailed analysis situates these policy dynamics within the historical and global context of late-stage petro-capitalism and deepening neoliberalization of environmental policy.
Fossilized reveals a country out of step with the transition unfolding in response to the climate crisis. As the global community moves toward decarbonization, Canada’s petro-provinces are instead doubling down on oil – to their ecological and economic peril.
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, and Newfoundland and Labrador offered extensive support for oil-industry development, and exploring the often downplayed environmental effects of extraction.
Angela Carter investigates overarching institutional trends, such as the restructuring of departments that prioritized extraction over environmental protection, and identifies regulatory inadequacies related to environmental assessment, land-use planning, and emissions controls. Her detailed analysis situates these policy dynamics within the historical and global context of late-stage petro-capitalism and deepening neoliberalization of environmental policy.
Fossilized reveals a country out of step with the transition unfolding in response to the climate crisis. As the global community moves toward decarbonization, Canada’s petro-provinces are instead doubling down on oil – to their ecological and economic peril.
Angela V. Carter is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Foreword: Talking about a House on Fire / Graeme Wynn
Introduction: Situating Canada’s Petro-Provinces
1 Alberta: Provincial Life Blood and Anemic Environmental Regulation
2 Saskatchewan: Saskaboom and Environmental Policy Bust
3 Newfoundland and Labrador: Economic Miracle and Environmental Debacle
4 From Boom to Bust: Doubling Down on Oil
Notes, Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 26.10.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Nature |
Zusatzinfo | 7 charts |
Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik | |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-6352-8 / 0774863528 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-6352-0 / 9780774863520 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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