Unbuilt environments : tracing postwar development in northwest British Columbia
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- ISBN: 9780774833059 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
xxvi, 245 p. : ill., maps, charts ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Vancouver, BC : UBC Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-227) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: the Stikine watershed and the unbuilt environment -- Cassiar, asbestos : how to know a place -- Liberating stranded resources : the Dease Lake extension as the railway to nowhere -- Corporate ecology : BC Hydro, failure, and the Stikine-Iskut project -- "Industry for the future" : Dome Petroleum and the afterlives of "aggressive" development -- Transmission : contesting energy and enterprise in the new northwest gold rush -- Conclusion: the tumbling geography. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Castlegar Campus Library | HC 117 B8 P49 2017 (Text) | B001687144 | General | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"In the latter half of the twentieth century, legions of industrial pioneers came to northwestern British Columbia with grand plans for mines, dams, and energy development schemes. Yet many of their projects never materialized or were simply abandoned mid-stream. "Unbuilt Environments" reveals that these failed resource projects had lasting effects on the natural and human environment. Drawing on a range of case studies to analyze the social and environmental impacts of unfinished projects, Jonathan Peyton considers development failure to be a productive concept in northwestern Canada. In this first analysis of the history of resource exploitation in this part of the world, he looks at the closed asbestos mine and town site at Cassiar, an abandoned rail grade (the Dease Lake Extension), an imagined series of hydroelectric installations (the Stikine-Iskut project), a failed LNG export facility (Dome Petroleum), and the much-debated Northwest Transmission Line.