Fossilized (Paperback)

Angela V. Carter

ISBN 10: 0774863536 / ISBN 13: 9780774863537

Published by University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2021

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Paperback. Thanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Canada's largest oil-producing provinces underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Yet oil's economic miracle obscured its ecological costs. Fossilized traces this development trajectory, assessing how the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador offered extensive support for oil-industry development, and exploring the often downplayed environmental effects of extraction.Angela Carter investigates overarching institutional trends, such as the restructuring of departments that prioritized extraction over environmental protection, and identifies regulatory inadequacies related to environmental assessment, land-use planning, and emissions controls. Her detailed analysis situates these policy dynamics within the historical and global context of late-stage petro-capitalism and deepening neoliberalization of environmental policy.Fossilized reveals a country out of step with the transition unfolding in response to the climate crisis. As the global community moves toward decarbonization, Canada's petro-provinces are instead doubling down on oil to their ecological and economic peril. Fossilized reveals how Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador blinded by exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015 undermined environmental policies to intensify ecologically detrimental extreme oil extraction. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fossilized (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774863536
• ISBN 13: 9780774863537
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Thanks to increasingly extreme forms of oil extraction, Canada’s largest oil-producing provinces underwent exceptional economic growth from 2005 to 2015. Yet oil’s economic miracle obscured its ecological costs. Fossilized traces this development trajectory, assessing how the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, and Labrador offered extensive support for oil development and downplayed its environmental effects. At the height of the boom, these oil-dependent provinces undermined their own environmental policies in order to boost production. Angela Carter investigates overarching institutional trends that prioritized resource extraction over environmental protection and identifies regulatory inadequacies related to environmental assessment, land-use planning, and emissions controls. Her detailed analysis situates these policy dynamics squarely within the historical and global context of late-stage petro-capitalism and the growing neo-liberalization of environmental policy.

Fossilized reveals a country out of step with the transition unfolding in response to the climate crisis. As the global community moves toward deep decarbonization, Canada’s petro-provinces have intensified oil production, intertwining their fate ever more closely with fossil fuel extraction—at great ecological and economic risk.

About the Author

Angela V. Carter is associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo, fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and a co-investigator on the Corporate Mapping Project. Her current research analyzes movements and legislation that is focused on winding down fossil fuel extraction in developed-world states to confront the climate crisis.