{"product_id":"costly-fix-power-politics-and-nature-in-the-tar-sands-paperback-softback-9781487594619","title":"Costly Fix; Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487594619","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCostly Fix\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePower, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIan Urquhart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487594619\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The sweep and density of Ian Urquhart\u0026amp;#x2019;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\u0026amp;#x2019; Prairie Capitalism (1979).\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Chris Tollefson (The Tyee.ca, January 28, 2019)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCostly Fix\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eTables and Charts \u003cbr\u003eAcronyms \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A Neo-Liberal Klondike\u003cbr\u003eThe Boom \u003cbr\u003eA Modern Klondike…If Not for the Role of the State \u003cbr\u003eThe Path Ahead \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Market Fundamentalism and the State \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eCapital's Privilege in Market Societies \u003cbr\u003eEconomic Liberalism's Resurrection: Market Fundamentalism \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. State, Capital, and the Foundations of Exploiting the Tar Sands \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eAlberta's Bitumen \u003cbr\u003eEarly History \u003cbr\u003eThe Social Credit Years: The Birth of Great Canadian Oil Sands (Suncor) \u003cbr\u003eSyncrude \u003cbr\u003eConfused Seas on the Voyage to Free Trade \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Building Canada's Oil Factory: Reregulating the Tar Sands \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eStruggling to Survive? \u003cbr\u003eThe Liberal Renaissance \u003cbr\u003eThe Missionary\u003cbr\u003eThe State Embraces the Sermon: Alberta \u003cbr\u003eThe State Embraces the Sermon: Canada \u003cbr\u003e\"An Era of Unprecedented Growth\" \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Landscape of Sacrifice: The Environmental Consequences of Reregulating the Tar Sands \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eState Institutions: No Friends to Environmental Concerns \u003cbr\u003eIntegrated Resource Planning in Name Only: Sacrificing a Potential World Heritage Site \u003cbr\u003eThe Cumulative Environmental Management Association: Too Little, Too Late \u003cbr\u003eThe Pembina Institute and the Limits of the Reformist Critique \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. First Nations: Resistance and Compromise \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eFirst Nations' Concerns and Objections: Developing a Scientific Critique \u003cbr\u003eFirst Nations' Concerns and Objections: The Constitutional Critique \u003cbr\u003eCompromise: The Other Face of the First Nations' Relationship to the Tar Sands \u003cbr\u003eFirst Nations: Partners in Exploiting the Tar Sands \u003cbr\u003eBuilding First Nations' Organizational Capacity...with Strings Attached \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Prison Break? The Political Economy of Royalty Reform \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eThe Politics of Leadership Succession and Petroleum Royalties \u003cbr\u003eEstablishing the Public's \"Fair Share\": The Alberta Royalty Review Panel \u003cbr\u003eIndustry Strikes Back \u003cbr\u003eAlberta's 2007 Oil Sands Royalty Changes: Draconian or Reaffirming? \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Taking Environmental Issues Abroad: Toxic Tailings, Dead Ducks \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eMr. Smith Goes to Washington \u003cbr\u003e\"The Press Is the Enemy\" \u003cbr\u003eDead Ducks, Tarred Images \u003cbr\u003eThe Bitumen Triangle: Industry, Government, and Universities Unite to Tell a Better Story \u003cbr\u003eDirective 074 and the Politics of Tailings Ponds Reclamation \u003cbr\u003eThe Institutional Framework \u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Tar Sands and the Politics of Climate Change \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eDirty Oil, Climate Change, and the Transnational Environmental Critique \u003cbr\u003eCongress, the Bush Administration, and the Security of Tar Sands Access to US Markets \u003cbr\u003eWhat to Reduce in Alberta? Emissions and\/or Emissions Intensity? \u003cbr\u003eThe Specified Gas Emitters Regulation: Alberta's 12 Percent Solution \u003cbr\u003eThe Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) \u003cbr\u003eThe Keystone XL Pipeline\u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. An Inconvenient Truth: New Government, Same Approach \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003eLet's Talk Royalties (Again) \u003cbr\u003eDirective 085: Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse? \u003cbr\u003eAlberta's Climate Leadership Plan \u003cbr\u003eConclusion \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Conclusion: Market Fundamentalism in the Tar Sands \u003cbr\u003eMarket Fundamentalism and the Character of Exploitation \u003cbr\u003eMarket Fundamentalism and Nature \u003cbr\u003eMarket Fundamentalism and Countermovements \u003cbr\u003eThe Future \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix 1: Oil Sands Production, 1995–2015, BPD (000s) \u003cbr\u003eReferences \u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599863345432,"sku":"9781487594619","price":27.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/costly-fix-power-politics-and-nature-in-the-tar-sands-paperback-softback-9781487594619","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}