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Sweeny Alastair |
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Black bonanza : Alberta's oil sands and the race to secure North America's energy future / / Alastair Sweeny |
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Etobicoke, Ont., : J. Wiley & Sons Canada, c2010 |
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0-470-67583-7 |
1-282-65352-0 |
9786612653520 |
0-470-16155-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 p.) |
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333.8/232097123 |
333.8232097123 |
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Soggetti |
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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.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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