Canada's oil sands: The mark of a new 'oil age' or a potential threat to Arctic security?. Issue 2 (April 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sherval, Meg
• Is Part Of: Extractive industries and society. Volume 2:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 225
• Page End: 236
• Publication Date: 2015-04
• Subjects: Mineral industries -- Periodicals; Gas industry -- Periodicals; Petroleum industry and trade -- Periodicals; 338.205
• DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2015.01.011
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-790X

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">Oil sands framed as a response to scarcity arguments are critiqued.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">Pipeline options are examined within the context of Canada's Arctic sovereignty.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">The divergent arguments of oil sands proponents and opposition groups are explored.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">The potential environmental and climate change impacts are examined.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0025"> <label></label> <p id="par0025">Wisdom of future resource exploitation utilising the Arctic is questioned.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>