<p>The story of the Alberta governments decision to develop the Northern boreal forest and of the ensuing battles between multinational developers, environmentalists, Native groups, and sawmillers over the rights to exploit the timber resources.</p>

The Last Great Forest: Japanese Multinationals and Alberta's Northern Forests

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Urquhart, Ian

Pratt, Larry

Gardening & Landscape Design

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Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands

Costly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues. It considers the position of First Nations, the character and strength of environmental critiques, and the difficulties that environmental groups and First Nations have had in establishing a countermovement to market fundamentalism. The final chapter discusses how Alberta's new NDP government, in its first couple of years, has addressed the legacies they have inherited from the previous Progressive Conservative government on climate change, royalties, and the blight of tailings ponds in the boreal forest. Throughout the book, Urquhart demonstrates that too many actors have done too little to prevent Alberta's boreal forest from becoming a landscape sacrificed for unsustainable economic growth.

Business & Money

Economics

University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division

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