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March 26, 2017 | Government

By Chris Turner

Bestselling writer Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of citadel McMurray, exhibiting the numerous methods the oilsands influence our lives and significant that we ask the query: which will either gasoline the realm and to put it aside, what will we do in regards to the Patch?

In its heyday, the oilsands represented an business triumph and the end result of a century of innovation, test, engineering, coverage, and finance. citadel McMurray was once a boomtown, the centre of a brand new gold rush, and the oilsands have been reshaping the worldwide strength, political, and fiscal landscapes. the longer term appeared unlimited for town and people who drew their wealth from the bitumen-rich wilderness.

But in 2008, a brand new narrative for the oilsands emerged. As monetary markets collapsed and the medical truth of the Patch’s impact at the setting turned transparent, the sector become a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the worldwide flow combatting weather swap. unexpectedly, the streets of citadel McMurray have been front line of a high-stakes collision among conflicting worldviews—one of commercial triumph and one other of environmental stewardship—each subsidized by means of significant gamers at the global stage.

The Patch is the seminal account of this ongoing clash, exhibiting simply how some distance the oilsands reaches into all of our lives. From citadel Mac to the Bakken shale state of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the seashores of Brazil, the total global is hooked up during this firm. And it calls for us to invite the query: so as to either gas the area and to put it aside, what will we do in regards to the Patch?

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