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
Ian Urquhart is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta.
"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)."
*The Tyee.ca, January 28, 2019*
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