With the birth of the oil industry in western Canada came an American dream to blow it all up. Part 1 of 3.
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Developing Alberta’s Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto, Paul Chastko (2004)
Stupid to the last drop: how Alberta is bringing environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn’t seem to care), William Marsden (2008)
The K. A. Clark Volume, Research Council of Alberta (1963)
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast, John Vaillant (2023)
Basic Properties: Oil Sands, Bitumen and Heavy Oil, Oil Sands Magazine (2022)
Alberta Culture and Tourism - Oil Sands (Accessed 2024)
Alberta’s Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board, David H. Breen (1993)
Imagining the Tar Sands 1880-1967 and Beyond, M. Gismondi and D. J. Davidson (2012)
Recovering Oil from Shale with Nucle