Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands

Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, highlighting the state's inflated profitability and environmental issues, and the challenges faced by environmental groups and First Nations in establishing a countermovement to market fundamentalism. It also discusses the new NDP government's efforts to address climate change, royalties, and tailings ponds in the boreal forest.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2018
Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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.

Weight: 594g
Dimension: 226 x 157 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781487594619