Nature Environmental Conservation & Protection
Pipe Dream
saying goodbye to the best place on earth
- Publisher
- Hancock House
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2018
- Category
- Environmental Conservation & Protection, Conservatism & Liberalism, Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888390707
- Publish Date
- Jun 2018
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
In Saving Wilderburb, author Michael McCarthy explains the threat to the wilderness/urban paradise of Vancouver by the proposal to dramatically increase oil shipped through Vancouver and the Salish Sea. Wilderburb also explains much of the information released to the public, such as the supposed economic benefits to Canada, is false.
About the author
Michael J. McCarthy was born in St. Jacques, Fortune Bay, moving to Terrenceville at the age of five, where he attended school until grade eleven. He attended Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Ottawa, graduating with an MA. in Literature. He taught in a number of communities until his retirement in 1986. Michael McCarthy is the author of three novels and a history book. He is the co-author of several more books and has written for several magazines, as well as for radio and television. He was married to the former Ann Hamlyn, and they had two children: Michael and Karen Michael J. McCarthy passed away on October 28, 2005.
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