The Tar Sands Diplomat

Author : Keith Halliday
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491792650

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The Tar Sands Diplomat by Keith Halliday Pdf

The Russians have a plan to kill Canadian oil exports. And Canada has a diplomat clueless enough to stop them. Macgregor is on a dream posting to Brussels, until a red-haired Russian prostitute dramatically murders the Canadian Missions star diplomat and plunges Macgregor into a world of spooks, Russian oligarchs and eco-hacktivists. After Ottawa sends the G-7s least competent security team to Brussels to investigate, Macgregor realizes thatfor the first time in his careerhe actually has to do something. Fortunately he has something no one else does: Ottawas biggest collection of spy novels. Unable to penetrate the digital defenses of the opposition, or even operate his own Blackberry, Macgregor falls back on spy-novel classics: disguises, midnight burglaries and hidden microphones. To his surprise, they lead him towards the truth. Unfortunately for Macgregor, they also lead him towards a well-connected Canadian oil company and the Prime Ministers Office back in Ottawa.

Author : Steve D'Arcy
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9781771131094

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A Line in the Tar Sands by Steve D'Arcy Pdf

Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents-fighting a powerful international industry-are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are muzzled; and public hearings are concealed and rushed. Yet, despite the formidable political and economic power behind the tar sands, many opponents are actively building international networks of resistance, challenging pipeline plans while resisting threats to indigenous sovereignty and democratic participation. Includes contributions from Winona LaDuke, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Harsha Walia, Jeremy Brecher, Crystal Lameman, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Yves Engler, Cherri Foytlin, Macdonald Stainsby, Yudith Nieto, Greg Albo, and Brian Tokar, and more. The editors' proceeds from this book will be donated to frontline grassroots environmental justice groups and campaigns.

Author : Patrice Dutil
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774868587

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Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats by Patrice Dutil Pdf

Foreign policy is a tricky business. Typically, its challenges and proposed solutions are perceived as mismatched unless a leader can amass enough support for an idea to create a consensus. Because the prime ministers are typically the ones supporting a compromise, Canadian foreign policy can be analyzed through the actions of these leaders. Statesmen, Strategists, and Diplomats explores how prime ministers – from Sir John A. MacDonald to Justin Trudeau – have shaped foreign policy. This innovative focus is destined to trigger a new appreciation for the formidable personal attention and acuity involved in a successful approach to external affairs.

Author : Anders Hayden
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773596344

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When Green Growth Is Not Enough by Anders Hayden Pdf

Is the pursuit of endless economic growth compatible with the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the worst extremes of climate change? In When Green Growth Is Not Enough, Anders Hayden analyzes the political battle between three competing approaches to this question and how it has played out in Canada and Britain. Defenders of the "business-as-usual" approach reject climate action as too costly and in conflict with economic growth, while downplaying the severity of climate change. Supporters of ecological modernization, or "green growth," on the other hand, aim to use technology and efficiency to delink economic expansion from emissions and find business opportunities through environmental action. While mainstream debate has focused on these two pro-growth models, Hayden pays particular attention to the struggles and limited inroads of a third, more radical perspective: the idea of sufficiency, which challenges the continued growth of production and consumption in the already-affluent global North and asks, how much is enough? Drawing on interviews, participation in climate-related events, and analysis of key documents, Hayden shows the role these paradigms have played in Britain, one of the world’s leaders in climate reform, and in Canada, a nation at the bottom of international climate change rankings. Rich in detail, When Green Growth Is Not Enough is a lively account of the theory and real-world politics of climate action.

Author : Meenal Shrivastava,Lorna Stefanick
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771990295

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Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada by Meenal Shrivastava,Lorna Stefanick Pdf

In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : MINN:30000010497638

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Energy Fact Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tetra Tech, Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Energy policy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030304351

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Energy Fact Book, 1976 by Tetra Tech, Inc Pdf

Author : Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000517941

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Movements by Maria Grasso,Marco Giugni Pdf

This handbook provides readers with up-to-date knowledge on environmental movements and activism and is a reference point for international work in the field. It offers an assessment of environmental movements in different regions of the world, macrostructural conditions and processes underlying their mobilization, the microstructural and social-psychological dimensions of environmental movements and activism, and current trends, as well as prospects for environmental movements and social change. The handbook provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of the art and future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and understanding of environmental movements and activism. It encourages dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between social movement studies and other perspectives and reflects upon the causes and consequences of citizens’ participation in environmental movements and activities. The volume brings historical studies of environmentalism, sociological analyses of the social composition of participants in and sympathizers of environmental movements, investigations by political scientists on the conditions and processes underlying environmental movements and activism, and other disciplinary inquiries together, while keeping a clear focus within social movement theory and research as the main lines of inquiry. The handbook is an essential guide and reference point not only for researchers but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.

Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2871988

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Diplomatic and Consular Reports. Annual Series by Great Britain. Foreign Office Pdf

Author : Geo Takach
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781772121407

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Tar Wars by Geo Takach Pdf

Tar Wars offers a critical, inside look at how leading image-makers negotiate the escalating tensions between the need for continuous economic growth mandated by a globalized economic system and its unsustainable environmental costs. As representations of a place and its identity assume paramount importance in a globalized, visual, and increasingly ecologically conscious society, a rising, international battle unfolds over Alberta's bituminous sands, pitting independent documentary filmmakers against professional communicators employed by the oil industry and government. Tar Wars will engage scholars and students in communications, film, environmental studies, social psychology, and petrocultures. It also reaches out to decision-makers, activists, and those who wish to explore the intersections of energy, environment, culture, politics, economy, media, and power in the world today.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Subcommittee on Aerospace Technology and National Needs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : UIUC:30112104079543

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Alternative Fuels for Aviation by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences. Subcommittee on Aerospace Technology and National Needs Pdf

Author : Mary Clark Sheppard
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888642288

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Oil Sands Scientist: The Letters of Karl A. Clark, 1920-1949 by Mary Clark Sheppard Pdf

This collection of leters from the early 1920s to the late 1940s by Dr. Karl A. Clark chronicles the development of the hot water separation process for producing oil from the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta.

Author : Rossella Bardazzi,Maria Grazia Pazienza,Alberto Tonini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319213026

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European Energy and Climate Security by Rossella Bardazzi,Maria Grazia Pazienza,Alberto Tonini Pdf

​As energy is becoming one of the crucial concerns in the EU, this volume provides an in-depth analysis and interdisciplinary perspective on European energy security. Given the multidimensional nature of energy security in terms of physical availability, affordability and geopolitical security, it brings together authors from different backgrounds pursuing a distinctly multidisciplinary approach. The authors' different perspectives correspond to the three sections of the book: international relations, which focuses on Eastern EU partners; energy economics, which highlights the current unconventional hydrocarbons revolution and its impact on EU energy and climate strategies; and public policy, which analyzes EU policies in the context.

Author : Paul Anthony Chastko
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552381243

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Developing Alberta's Oil Sands by Paul Anthony Chastko Pdf

Alberta's oil sands represent a vast and untapped oil reserve that could reasonably supply all of Canada's energy needs for the next 475 years. With an estimated 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil at stake, the quest to develop this natural resource has been undertaken by many powerful actors, both nationally and internationally. Using research that integrates the economic, political, scientific, and business factors that have been influential in discovering and developing the sands, this book provides a comprehensive history of the oil sands project and a window on the nature of the complex relationships between industry, government, and transnational players. This book is the first comprehensive volume that examines the origins and development of the oil sands industry over the last century.

Author : Antony Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1773100459

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The Diplomat by Antony Anderson Pdf

"Lester Pearson, Canada's foreign minister (and future prime minister) stands before the United Nations General Assembly. His speech, shaped by caution and hope, is a last-ditch attempt to prevent a conflict in Egypt from igniting a conflagration throughout the Middle East. Pearson, is about to carve out a razor's edge of common ground to bring together angry allies and bitter enemies by suggesting and making possible the creation of the first UN peacekeeping force. Pearson's diplomacy throughout the Suez Crisis launched a bold experiment in international security and cemented Canada's reputation as "a moderate, mediatory, middle power." And yet, until now, no one has told the full story of how this Canadian diplomat led the world back from the brink of war. In a unique blending of biography and political history, The Diplomat creates not only a compelling portrait of Pearson but also a nuanced analysis of the political maze navigated by Pearson to avert a bloody war."--