Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin - Softcover

Clancy, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774820551 ISBN 13: 9780774820554

Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2012

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The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves represents one of the most dynamic and complex sectors of global petroleum development. Atlantic Canada is no exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges, accommodations, and settlements. Peter Clancy’s comprehensive analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the intricate intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore development. His incisive analysis of the politics at play provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum industry in Atlantic Canada.

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Peter Clancy is a professor of political science atSt. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

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The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves
represents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleum
development. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is no
exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half
century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges,
accommodations, and settlements. Peter Clancy's comprehensive
analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the complex
intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological
concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore
development. His incisive analysis of the complex politics at play
provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum
industry in Atlantic Canada.

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The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves
represents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleum
development. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is no
exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half
century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges,
accommodations, and settlements. Peter Clancy's comprehensive
analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the complex
intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological
concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore
development. His incisive analysis of the complex politics at play
provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum
industry in Atlantic Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774820551
• ISBN 13: 9780774820554
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 419
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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