Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-203) and index.
Summary
Frenzied development in the Alberta tar sands (deposits of bitumen) has created the world's largest energy project and could transform Canada into the globe's second-greatest oil exporter by 2050. Much of the U.S. Midwest now runs on dirty oil from the tar sands. Yet this megaproject is polluting the air, poisoning the water, and destroying boreal forest at a rapid rate.
Contents
Canada's great reserve --It ain't oil -- The vision of Herman Kahn -- Highway to hell -- The water barons -- The ponds -- The fiction of reclamation -- Dragons and pipelines -- Carbon : a wedding and a funeral -- Nukes for oil -- The money -- The first law of petropolitics -- Eighth wonder of the world -- Tar Age ahead -- Twelve steps to energy sanity.
