{"product_id":"costly-fix-9781487594619","title":"Costly Fix","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCostly Fix examines the post-1995 Alberta tar sands boom, detailing how the state inflated the profitability of the tar sands and turned a blind eye to environmental issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The sweep and density of Ian Urquhart’s analysis will ensure that, for years to come, Costly Fix will be a standard text in the Canadian political economy canon, placing it in the company of such classics as Larry Pratt and John Richards’ Prairie Capitalism (1979).\" -- Chris Tollefson * The Tyee.ca, January 28, 2019 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Tables and Charts  Acronyms    Introduction: A Neo-Liberal Klondike The Boom  A Modern Klondike…If Not for the Role of the State  The Path Ahead    1. Market Fundamentalism and the State  Introduction  Capital's Privilege in Market Societies  Economic Liberalism's Resurrection: Market Fundamentalism  Conclusion    2. State, Capital, and the Foundations of Exploiting the Tar Sands  Introduction  Alberta's Bitumen  Early History  The Social Credit Years: The Birth of Great Canadian Oil Sands (Suncor)  Syncrude  Confused Seas on the Voyage to Free Trade  Conclusion    3. Building Canada's Oil Factory: Reregulating the Tar Sands  Introduction  Struggling to Survive?  The Liberal Renaissance  The Missionary The State Embraces the Sermon: Alberta  The State Embraces the Sermon: Canada  \"An Era of Unprecedented Growth\"  Conclusion    4. Landscape of Sacrifice: The Environmental Consequences of Reregulating the Tar Sands  Introduction  State Institutions: No Friends to Environmental Concerns  Integrated Resource Planning in Name Only: Sacrificing a Potential World Heritage Site  The Cumulative Environmental Management Association: Too Little, Too Late  The Pembina Institute and the Limits of the Reformist Critique  Conclusion    5. First Nations: Resistance and Compromise  Introduction  First Nations' Concerns and Objections: Developing a Scientific Critique  First Nations' Concerns and Objections: The Constitutional Critique  Compromise: The Other Face of the First Nations' Relationship to the Tar Sands  First Nations: Partners in Exploiting the Tar Sands  Building First Nations' Organizational Capacity...with Strings Attached  Conclusion    6. Prison Break? The Political Economy of Royalty Reform  Introduction  The Politics of Leadership Succession and Petroleum Royalties  Establishing the Public's \"Fair Share\": The Alberta Royalty Review Panel  Industry Strikes Back  Alberta's 2007 Oil Sands Royalty Changes: Draconian or Reaffirming?  Conclusion    7. Taking Environmental Issues Abroad: Toxic Tailings, Dead Ducks  Introduction  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington  \"The Press Is the Enemy\"  Dead Ducks, Tarred Images  The Bitumen Triangle: Industry, Government, and Universities Unite to Tell a Better Story  Directive 074 and the Politics of Tailings Ponds Reclamation  The Institutional Framework  Conclusion   8. The Tar Sands and the Politics of Climate Change  Introduction  Dirty Oil, Climate Change, and the Transnational Environmental Critique  Congress, the Bush Administration, and the Security of Tar Sands Access to US Markets  What to Reduce in Alberta? Emissions and\/or Emissions Intensity?  The Specified Gas Emitters Regulation: Alberta's 12 Percent Solution  The Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC)  The Keystone XL Pipeline Conclusion    9. An Inconvenient Truth: New Government, Same Approach  Introduction  Let's Talk Royalties (Again)  Directive 085: Letting the Fox Guard the Henhouse?  Alberta's Climate Leadership Plan  Conclusion    10. Conclusion: Market Fundamentalism in the Tar Sands  Market Fundamentalism and the Character of Exploitation  Market Fundamentalism and Nature  Market Fundamentalism and Countermovements  The Future    Appendix 1: Oil Sands Production, 1995–2015, BPD (000s)  References  Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187733160279,"sku":"9781487594619","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/costly-fix-9781487594619","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}