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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827525503321

Autore

Sweeny Alastair

Titolo

Black bonanza : Alberta's oil sands and the race to secure North America's energy future / / Alastair Sweeny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Etobicoke, Ont., : J. Wiley & Sons Canada, c2010

ISBN

0-470-67583-7

1-282-65352-0

9786612653520

0-470-16155-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

333.8/232097123

333.8232097123

Soggetti

Oil sands - Government policy - Alberta

Oil sands - Economic aspects - Alberta

Oil sands - Environmental aspects - Alberta

Oil sands industry - Technological innovations - Alberta

Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Black Bonanza; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: All About the Oil Sands; Chapter 2: Origins-All Hell for a Basement; Chapter 3: Gearing Up-The Years of Frustration; Chapter 4: Pay Dirt-The Oil Sands Today; Chapter 5: King Ralph and the SAGD Revolution; Chapter 6: Tar Wars-Oil versus the Environment; Chapter 7: Peak Oil Terror and the Athabasca Answer; Chapter 8: Blue Shift-A New Frontier in Energy; Index

Sommario/riassunto

What if Canada 's so-called environmental nightmare was really an engineering triumph and the key to a stable and sustainable future?  For years, Canadians have been hearing nothing but bad news out of the Athabasca Oil Sands. From 20th Century economists decrying it as a perpetual money-loser in the face of more easily-extracted foreign oil to green groups around the world declaring it the world's worst industrial enterprise, sometimes it seems as though no good could ever



come from this so-called dirty resource.  But what if developing Canada's Oil Sands was the key to bridging the