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Title: |
The Land of Peter Pond |
| Series: |
Occasional Publications Series |
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| Edited by: |
John J. Chalmers Maps by: G.A. Lester |
| ISBN10-13: |
0919058116 : 9780919058118 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
188 |
| Weight: |
.256 Kg. |
| Published: |
CCI Press - January 1974 |
| List Price: |
19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Out of Print
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| Subjects: |
History of the Americas : Energy : Canada |
| In the 1970s-an era of actual and threatened energy shortages, Canada and indeed all of North America were paying increase attention to the fabulous oil sands of northeastern Alberta. Although the sands were rich in their promises for the future, they were no new discovery-fur traders and explorers commented on their existence for two hundred years. And for more than half a century, scientists, engineers, and technicians wrestled with the problems of separating the oil from the sand and delivering it to market at a competitive price. But these rich resources do not exist in vacuo, so to speak, simply as a geological phenomenon or problem to be solved solely by technological strategies. They are part of a natural and human environment. The exploitation of the oil sands has had enormous consequences, not always foreseen, on the region and its people. The purpose of this publication is not to be a manual on the petrochemical industry of northeastern Alberta, but to describe briefly, and in non-technical terms, its oil sand area and its people, and to tell something of their rich historical and other background. CCI Press is pleased to reissue this interesting volume, in celebration of the Alberta centennial. Introduction by John W. Chalmers. Chapters by: William C. Wonders; P.D. Lulman; Hugh A. Dempsey; Edgard D. Cooke, James. M. Parker; and Gerry Lock. |
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