Black Bonanza: Alberta's Oil Sands and the Race to Secure North America's Energy Future

by Alastair Sweeny

What if Canada 's so-called environmental nightmare was really an engineering triumph and the key to a stable and sustainable future?

For years, Canadians have been hearing nothing but bad news out of the Athabasca Oil Sands. From 20th Century economists decrying it as a perpetual money-loser in the face of more easily-extracted foreign oil to green groups around the world declaring it the world's worst industrial enterprise, sometimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470161388
• ISBN13: 9780470161388
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.2"