Acknowledgements
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
