Alberta

The Devil's Tears

13 April, 2011 | Andrew Nikiforuk

Canada Geese was photographed by Louis Helbig.

Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada’s Oilsands, Ezra Levant, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010, 272 pages.

Published in: EcoBooks 37.3

What's the Big Idea? Substitution

21 October, 2010 | Robert Gibson

QUICK NOW. What’s worse: a punch in the nose or a poke in the eye? An ugly divorce or a year in the slammer? Deep drilling in the Gulf of Mexico or tar-sands mining in Alberta?

Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice has an opinion on the latter. In a statement reported shortly after the Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 people and gushing oil into the Gulf, he said that the environmental risks associated with Alberta’s tar-sands operations are “probably less than the kind of risks associated with offshore drilling.”

Published in: Biodiversity 36.6

FUEL

29 April, 2009 | John Knechtel

EVERY EDITION that the pocketbook anthology series Alphabet City co-publishes with The MIT Press binds together the work of a diverse group of artists and writers who investigate a single topic from many angles.

FUEL was a theme particularly well suited to our method because it is multifaceted. We were able to assemble a collection of works that take the reader from considerations of infrastructure to questions about our fuel fantasies.

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