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portada Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta
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Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780226849379

Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta

Schmidt, Jeremy J. (Author) · University of Chicago Press · Paperback

Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta - Schmidt, Jeremy J.

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Synopsis "Landlocked: Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta"

A study of oil-rich Alberta reveals the entwined relationships among geoscience, governance, and power.The Canadian province of Alberta holds the world's fourth-largest reserve of fossil fuels, with oil sands famous for bitumen, a viscous form of petroleum. A clearinghouse for international environmental ideas and energy policies, Alberta pioneered state-led efforts to understand, extract, and sell bitumen. Without natural access to ocean ports, Alberta is reliant on pipelines to global markets, which are often hampered by neighboring provinces and nations alike. But Alberta is also landlocked in another sense: it is caught in an extractive relationship with oil-rich earth.In Landlocked, Jeremy J. Schmidt focuses on Alberta's energy industry, particularly its use of water and oil, to argue for a new way to understand how political authority is forged and maintained through the environment. Schmidt details how water and oil were enrolled in early state-making projects, such as irrigation, before tracing the reverberating consequences, including a series of events in 2013 that released 4.2 million barrels of bitumen into underground environments. By uncovering the ways that geosciences supported activities--from land settlement to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples--that produced particular environmental policies and approaches to management and governance, he shows that geosciences aren't merely instruments of state power, but central to Alberta's political identity and legitimacy.

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