Technology & Engineering Petroleum
Pipeline Dreams
People, Environment, and the Arctic Energy Frontier
- Publisher
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2011
- Category
- Petroleum
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9788791563867
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $43.95
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Description
With a focus on the North American Arctic, Pipeline Dreamsdiscusses how dreams of extracting resource wealth have beensignificant in influencing and shaping relations between indigenous andnon-indigenous peoples, as well as for the opening up of northernfrontier regions to economic development. Pipeline Dreamslooks at the emergence of the circumpolar North as an imaginedhydrocarbon province and, through a detailed discussion of plans toexplore for oil and gas and to build pipelines across the Arctic andSubarctic lands, it discusses a number of case studies from Canada andAlaska, as well as from other circumpolar regions, which illustratesome of the diverse perspectives, interests and concerns of indigenouspeoples.
About the author
Contributor Notes
Mark Nuttall is a professor and Henry Marshall ToryChair in the department of anthropology at the University of Alberta.
