Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
By Andrew Nikiforuk.
Description
Winner of the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award , from the Society of Environmental JournalistsCanada has one third of the world’s oil source; it comes from the bitumen in the oil sands of Alberta. Advancements in technology and frenzied development have created the world’s largest energy project in Fort McMurray where, rather than shooting up like a fountain in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, the sticky bitumen is extracted from the earth. Providing almost 20 percent of America’s fuel, much of this dirty oil is being processed in refineries in the Midwest. This out...
ISBN(s)
1553654072, 9781553654070
