Political Science Environmental Policy
Costly Fix
Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2018
- Category
- Environmental Policy, Canadian, Energy Industries
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487594619
- Publish Date
- Jan 2018
- List Price
- $49.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781487594626
- Publish Date
- Jan 2018
- List Price
- $101.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487594633
- Publish Date
- Jan 2018
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues. It considers the position of First Nations, the character and strength of environmental critiques, and the difficulties that environmental groups and First Nations have had in establishing a countermovement to market fundamentalism. The final chapter discusses how Alberta's new NDP government, in its first couple of years, has addressed the legacies they have inherited from the previous Progressive Conservative government on climate change, royalties, and the blight of tailings ponds in the boreal forest. Throughout the book, Urquhart demonstrates that too many actors have done too little to prevent Alberta's boreal forest from becoming a landscape sacrificed for unsustainable economic growth.
About the author
Ian Urquhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
Awards
- Short-listed, The Donald Smiley Prize awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association
Editorial Reviews
"The sweep and density of Ian Urquhart’s analysis will ensure that, for years to come, Costly Fix will be a standard text in the Canadian political economy canon, placing it in the company of such classics as Larry Pratt and John Richards’ Prairie Capitalism (1979)."
The Tyee.ca, January 28, 2019