Wildcatters: The Story Of Pacific Petroleums And Westcoast Transmission
Published: Toronto: McClelland Stewart, 1982
ISBN 0=7710-3539-X
Description:
Wildcatters is a story about…
Two of the principal enterprises that opened Western Canada's oil and gas industry.
Frank McMahon, a hard-driving driller, promoter and wildcatter who endured a string of spectacular failures until a $100 option on 80 acres in Alberta's Turner Valley oil field paved the way to success.
McMahon's "pipe dream" to build a pipeline from the Peace River country to Vancouver, that became Canada's first major, long-distance natural gas pipeline.
Years of intricate negotiations involving the National Energy Board, the Parliament of Canada, the U.S. Federal Power Commission.
Wildcatters lays out one of the most intriguing pages in Canada's economic history.
"A finely-honed portrait of one of Canada's gutsiest and most successful trailblazers… a good read." Toronto Star.