Book giveaway: Tar Sands – Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent
I’ve got to admit – I haven’t read this one. I was sent two copies of the book by a company that had me review a different book. I intend to read it at some point, but since I’ve got two copies, I figured there’s no use in both of them sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.
From the back of Tar Sands by Andrew Nikiforuk:
Frenzied development in the Alberta tar sands – $200 billion and counting – has created the world’s largest energy project and could transform Canada into the globe’s second-greatest oil exporter by 2050. Without the dirty oil the tar sands pump south, the U.S. Midwest would be in a dire recession. Yet this out-of-control mega project is polluting the air, poisoning the water, and destroying boreal forest at a rate almost too rapid to be imagined. In this hard-hitting book, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk exposes the disastrous environmental, social, and political costs of the tar sands and argues forcefully for change.
If you’d like to win this book, please leave a comment at the end of this post. Make sure the e-mail you give when you leave the comment (the e-mail will not be visible to readers) is valid or I will chose another winner. The contest ends at 11:59pm Tuesday, September 8th and a random winner will be chosen and announced the next day.
The YouTube video below is narrated by the author and gives you a little more information about the tar sands.
This sounds like a very interesting book. I’ll be sure to watch the YouTube video when I’m on a computer that was made after 1993!
I’ve got this book as a pdf, but I also have to admit to not reading it yet! Can’t remember where I got it from, but it was free.
BTW, loving the new look Mrs S!
I’d be interested to read this book. I was reading about the tar sands in New Scientist last week and I’d like to know more.