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Pipe Dreams : The Fight for Canada's Energy Future by Jacques Poitras is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the 2018 Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the 2018 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing Shortlisted for the 2019 JW Dafoe Book Prize A timely chronicle of how Canada's oil pipelines have become hotbeds for debate about our energy future, Indigenous rights, environmental activism, and east-west political tensions. Pipe Dreams is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline and the broader battle over climate and energy in Canada. The project was to be a monumental undertaking, beginning near Edmonton, AB, and stretching over four thousand kilometres, through Montreal to the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, NB. Conceived as a back-up plan for the stalled Keystone XL pipeline, it became the crucible for a national debate over the future of oil. In a cross-country journey, Poitras talked to industry executives, prairie ranchers, First Nations chiefs, mayors, premiers, cabinet ministers, and refinery workers. He also explored Canada's perplexing oil relationship with the United States: our industry is literally tied to its American counterpart with sinews of steel. The Energy East

Who reads Pipe Dreams : The Fight for Canada's Energy Future?

Author

Jacques Poitras

Publisher

Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735233362

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Business, Economics