Description
Book Synopsis
This revealing analysis of Canada's electrical power co-operatives challenges our understanding of their history and shines a light on their potential within the nation's electricity sector.
Trade Review
Empowering Electricity is an empirically-grounded contribution to the literature on citizen engagement and energy policy in Canada. In particular, it provides a fresh take on BC energy politics that gets beyond the entrenched public/private dichotomy to explore one possible middle ground. While MacArthur implies that electricity co-operatives have the potential to erode public power in BC, her suggestion of co-operatives partnering with municipalities and First Nations may actually offer a new, politically viable approach to public power develpment that is both more democratic and locally acceptable than the current model. -- Nichole Dusyk * BC Studies *
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 A Climate for Change
2 Governing Sustainability: From Crisis to Empowerment
3 Co-operatives in Canadian Political Economy
4 International Forces for Power-Sector Restructuring
5 Continental, Private, and Green(er)? Canadian Electricity Restructuring
6 Electricity Co-operatives: The Power of Public Policy
7 Off the Ground and on the Grid: New Electricity Co-operative Development
8 Co-operative Networks and the Politics of Community Power
9 Empowering Electricity
Appendices
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
