Prophets, Pastors and Public Choices: Canadian Churches and the MacKenzie Valley Pipeline Debate

by Roger Hutchinson

The Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline debate included many actors. This is the first in-depth study in comparative religious ethics to examine the debate with a particular focus on the role of the Canadian churches. In 1974 twenty-seven of the world's largest oil and natural gas companies applied for permission to build a pipeline through the Mackenzie Valley to transport Alaskan and northern Canadian gas to large southern markets. Many northern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889202079
• ISBN13: 9780889202078
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 156 Pages