The Patch
The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands
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Narrateur(s):
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Stephen Graybill
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Auteur(s):
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Chris Turner
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Best-selling author Chris Turner brings listeners onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?
The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world's second largest proven reserve of oil. But this is no conventional story about the oil business. Rather, it is a portrait of the life cycle of the Patch, showing just how deeply it continues to impact the lives of everyone around the world.
In its heyday, the oil sands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oil sands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes.
But in 2008, a new narrative emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the cold, hard, scientific reality of the Patch's effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combating climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviews - one of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardship - each backed by major players on the world stage.
The Patch is a narrative-driven account of this ongoing conflict. It follows a select group of key characters whose experiences in and with the oil sands overlap in concentric narrative arcs. Through this insightful combination of global perspective and on-the-ground action, The Patch will show how the reach of the oil sands extends to all of us. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it demands that we ask the question: What do we do about the Patch?
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Au global5 out of 5 stars
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- John
- 2018-09-13
Knowledge is everything - Learn about "The Patch"
Before you opine! - This book is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the history and work that has gone into the development of "The Patch". When early explorers found bitumen literally pouring out of the ground into the Athabasca river, they took notice. Every Canadian who uses the thousands and thousands of products that are produced using oil and its' byproducts should read this, and only then offer up an informed opinion. #Audible1
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- Monica
- 2023-06-25
Great Book
I really enjoyed the book but,unfortunately, since I live in Alberta, the pronunciation of many words was annoyingly incorrect. Canada has premiers leading each provinces, NOT a premiere!!
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- maxwell
- 2019-03-07
Probably one of the only books on the topic
Nice to read about this topic as it is very close to home. Gave a decently balanced perspective. The author is a tad too long windy and a little heavy handed with his figurative flights of fancy at times but it’s fine.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2021-01-19
Great book. Terrible narrator.
I don’t ever write reviews and I listen to a lot of books but I had to take the time to write a review on this book as the story was awesome but it was totally overshadowed by the fact the the narrator couldn’t pronounce any of the oil and gas terms or company’s correctly. It was very distracting and really took away from the book.
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