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Extract: The Pipeline Wars Vol. 1 Enbridge
There's a war underway in Canada, one that could change the course of a nation and a planet.
With oil prices at record highs, oil giants are determined to get Canadian oil across to markets in Asia and around the world. But to get there, that oil has to make its way through British Columbia, home of the legendary Great Bear Rainforest, the fiercest environmental groups in the country and First Nations who plan to defend their land with their lives.
The ambitious $5.5. billion Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, if approved, will give Alberta further incentive to expand development of its oil sands, which scientists say will trigger catastrophic climate change.
The award-winning team from the Vancouver Observer, winners of the Canadian Journalism Foundation's 2012 Award for excellence in journalism, has spent hundreds of hours reporting on the pipeline issue and capturing peoples' voices.
The Pipeline Wars Vol. 1 Enbridge takes readers into First Nations' communities amid wild landscapes of Northern British Columbia; it navigates readers through the web of pipeline politics, through crowded streets filled with protesters, and behind closed doors at an oil and gas export summit. This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the complicated situation facing Canada's oil exports today.
REVIEW
"This is one of the greatest stories underway on the planet--the effort to wrest vast quantities of the dirtiest energy on earth from beneath Canada's boreal forests, and the even greater and far more beautiful effort to stop them. The stakes--the health of the planet's climate--simply couldn't be higher. Read this book. Extract does a great job of giving voice to some of the people on the front lines and giving you the information you need to engage in the debate." Bill McKibben
With oil prices at record highs, oil giants are determined to get Canadian oil across to markets in Asia and around the world. But to get there, that oil has to make its way through British Columbia, home of the legendary Great Bear Rainforest, the fiercest environmental groups in the country and First Nations who plan to defend their land with their lives.
The ambitious $5.5. billion Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, if approved, will give Alberta further incentive to expand development of its oil sands, which scientists say will trigger catastrophic climate change.
The award-winning team from the Vancouver Observer, winners of the Canadian Journalism Foundation's 2012 Award for excellence in journalism, has spent hundreds of hours reporting on the pipeline issue and capturing peoples' voices.
The Pipeline Wars Vol. 1 Enbridge takes readers into First Nations' communities amid wild landscapes of Northern British Columbia; it navigates readers through the web of pipeline politics, through crowded streets filled with protesters, and behind closed doors at an oil and gas export summit. This book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the complicated situation facing Canada's oil exports today.
REVIEW
"This is one of the greatest stories underway on the planet--the effort to wrest vast quantities of the dirtiest energy on earth from beneath Canada's boreal forests, and the even greater and far more beautiful effort to stop them. The stakes--the health of the planet's climate--simply couldn't be higher. Read this book. Extract does a great job of giving voice to some of the people on the front lines and giving you the information you need to engage in the debate." Bill McKibben
187 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 21, 2012
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Carrie Saxifrage
3 books2 followersCarrie Saxifrage's work as Sustainability Reporter covering the Northern Gateway Pipeline for The Vancouver Observer has garnered significant critical acclaim. She worked as a nurse and environmental lawyer in the U.S. before moving to a homestead in British Columbia. Her pursuit of adventure includes long distance ocean swims, mountain climbing and kayaking. In 2006, she committed to the most life-affirming adventure yet: advocacy for a stable climate.
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