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

• Autore: Sweeny Alastair
• Pubblicazione: Etobicoke, Ont., : J. Wiley & Sons Canada, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.8/232097123; 333.8232097123
• Soggetto topico: Oil sands - Government policy - Alberta; Oil sands - Economic aspects - Alberta; Oil sands - Environmental aspects - Alberta; Oil sands industry - Technological innovations - Alberta
• Soggetto geografico: Athabasca Tar Sands (Alta.)
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Black bonanza
• ISBN: 0-470-67583-7; 1-282-65352-0; 9786612653520; 0-470-16155-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827525503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II