A Patch of Green: Canada's Oilpatch Makes Peace with the Environment

Sharpe, Sydney

ISBN 10: 1552635201 / ISBN 13: 9781552635209

Published by Key Porter Books, 2002

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Title: A Patch of Green: Canada's Oilpatch Makes ...

Publisher: Key Porter Books

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis:

The Wiebo Ludwig affair brought to the forefront the often explosive relationship between the oil and gas industry and the ranchers and farmers who live under the shadow of its rigs. But behind the headlines, an unreported sea-change is taking place in the long history of these very different players. Canada's petroleum industry is in the middle of a massive paradigm shift. The old focus of drill fast, pump profits, leave quick is long gone. New executives and directors are bringing a mentality of corporate and social responsibility to the industry that pays attention to a triple bottom line: environmental, social, and economic. A Patch of Green examines the forces that have come to bear to bring about this change. From the viewpoints of environmentalists, landowners, drill workers and corporate executives, veteran journalist Sydney Sharpe reveals an industry wrestling with the excesses of its past and learning to profit from a new economic future.

About the Author:

SYDNEY SHARPE has more than twenty-five years experience as a journalist, author, and academic. Author of Storming Babylon: Preston Manning and the Rise of the Reform Party, The Gilded Ghetto: Women and Political Power in Canada, and Breakup: Why the West Feels Left Out of Canada, Sydney has also been a senior columnist for the Calgary Herald, and Calgary Bureau Chief for the Financial Post. She has worked and lived in the U.S., England, the Carribean, and across Canada. In his book Titans, Peter C. Newman described Sydney Sharpe as "the most influential daily journalist in the city, and one of the best business reporters covering the Oil Patch."