Description
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive study of petroleum politics in the Scotian Basin reveals the complex interplay of regulation and risk as industry, federal, and provincial authorities struggle to develop Canada's Atlantic offshore oil and gas resources.
Table of Contents1 Introduction
Part 1: The Political Economy of Offshore Petroleum
2 The Politics of Offshore Basin Development
Part 2: Parameters of the Offshore State
3 The Political Construction of Administrative Institutions
4 The CNSOPB in Action: Regulatory Politics in Multiple Dimensions
5 The Provincial State and the Entrepreneurial Impulse: NSRL
Part 3: Case Studies in the Offshore Petroleum Chain
6 Corridor Politics: Sable Gas Project Development
7 The Politics of Backward Linkage: Industrial Benefi ts
8 The Politics of Fiscal Entitlement: Offshore Revenues
9 The Onshore Politics of Natural Gas Distribution
10 The Liquefied Natural Gas Factor in Nova Scotia
11 Offshore Politics and the Aboriginal Challenge
12 Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
