My Books
Free Trade Free Canada. Woodville: Canadian Speeches
Published: 1988
ISBN: 0-9693400-0-1
Description:
Nineteen-eighty-eight. The Canada-U.S. free trade agreement signed January 2 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and President Ronald Reagan kicks, off one of the most passionate and bitter national debates in Canadian history, culminating in a pivotal general election in November. In Free Trade, Free Canada, 24 notable Canadians - ranging from former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed to novelist Mordecai Richler, economist Richard Lipsey to artist Christopher Pratt - expound the arguments for free trade. My lead article reviews 140 years of Canadian-American trade fights—involving politicians and plutocrats, smugglers and spiesthat preceded implementation of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.
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.
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The Great Uranium Cartel
Published: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982
ISBN: 0-7710-3537-3.
Description:
The Great Uranium Cartel describes an incredible complex conspiracy involving the governments and uranium companies of Canada, Australia, France, England, and South Africa, which, in 1976, exploded over the front pages of newspapers around the world.
This is not just the story of the cartel, secret meetings, U.S. grand jury and governments investigations, lawsuits involving billions of dollars, diplomatic notes and aide memories, cover-ups and gag laws, but an engrossing history of the uranium industry. It looks behind the doors of powerful corporations, listens to high-level government and business officials around the word, reads from some of the millions of pages of documents and court records, to draw the true story.
Super Pipe: The Arctic Pipeline - World’s Greatest Fiasco?
Published: Toronto: Griffin House, 1979
ISBN: 0 8876-099-9.
Description:
On the edge of the Arctic Ocean—along Alaska’s northern coastal plain, in Canada’s Mackenzie River Delta and the Beaufort Sea—lie North America’s largest untapped store of the most environmentally benign of the fossil fuels. Natural gas is virtually pollution free, causing none of the urban smog from burning coal and oil that kills 20,000 Canadians and Americans every year. It is also lower in the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But North America’s available supplies of natural gas are dwindling, in both Canada and the United States.
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Impact of Oil
Published: Toronto: Ryerson Press/Maclean Hunter, 1969
ISBN: 7700 3195 1
Description:
The renaissance of Canada's petroleum industry following the seminal 1947 discovery of the Leduc oil field near Edmonton had a profound effect on the development of the Canadian economy in the following 20 years. This book describes that impact, and offers a layman's outline of the industry: how oil was formed and accumulated millions of years ago in the pores of rocks, how it is found, produced, transported, refined, marketed, and processed into petrochemical from carpets to lipstick.
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