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Activism and the Fossil Fuel Industry by Andrew Cheon; Johannes UrpelainenCall Number: HD9502.A2 C4634 2018
ISBN: 9781783537549
Published/Created: 2018
While environmentalists used to focus on legislative goals, such as carbon emissions trading or renewable energy policies, today the most prominent activists directly attack the fossil fuel industry. This timely book offers a comprehensive evaluation of different types of activism, the success and impact of campaigns and activities, and suggestions as to ways forward. This book is the first systematic treatment of the anti-fossil fuel movement in the United States. An accessible and readable text, it is an essential reference for scholars, policymakers, activists, and citizens interested in climate change, fossil fuels, and environmental sustainability. The entire book or chapters from it can be used as required or supplementary material in various courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. As the book is not technically challenging but contains a comprehensive review of climate change, fossil fuels, and the literature on environmental activism, it can be used as an accessible introduction to the anti-fossil fuel campaign across disciplines. —From publisher’s description.
- The Answer is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance by Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer.
Call Number: TN879.5 .A67 2014
ISBN: 9781552666623
Published/Created: 2014
This book compiles interviews with people who live along the route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline in Northern British Columbia. The oil pipeline and supertankers – linking the tar sands of Alberta to the demand of the growing Asian market – are a key component of Canada’s strategy of natural resource extraction. But for the people living along the proposed pipeline route, Enbridge poses a massive environmental risk, which threatens their way of life. This edited collection takes the passionate words and voices of twelve citizens and activists and results in one powerful position when it comes to blind economic development at the expense of our environment and communities: The answer is still “no.” —From publisher’s description.
Call Number: HD9581.A2 M33 2019
ISBN: 9780525575474
Published/Created: 2019
"With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its growth, forcing Putin to maintain his power by spreading Russia's rot into its rivals, its neighbors, the United States, and the West's most important alliances. Chevron, BP, and a host of other industry players get their star turn, but ExxonMobil and the deceptively well-behaved Rex Tillerson emerge as two of the past century's most consequential corporate villains. The oil-and-gas industry has weakened democracies in developed and developing countries, fouled oceans and rivers, and propped up authoritarian thieves and killers." —From publisher’s description.
- Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally
Call Number: HD9565 .M29 2017
ISBN: 9780231178143
Published/Created: 2017
McNally shows how--even from the oil industry's first years--wild and harmful price volatility prompted industry leaders and officials to undertake extraordinary efforts to stabilize oil prices by controlling production. Herculean market interventions--first, by Rockefeller's Standard Oil, then, by U.S. state regulators in partnership with major international oil companies, and, finally, by OPEC--succeeded to varying degrees in taming the beast. McNally, a veteran oil market and policy expert, explains the consequences of the ebbing of OPEC's power, debunking myths and offering recommendations--including mistakes to avoid--as we confront the unwelcome return of boom and bust oil prices. —From publisher’s description.
Call Number: TN871.255 .W955 2018
ISBN: 9780822363828
Published/Created: 2018
In Fractivism, Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Beginning her story in Colorado, Wylie shows how nonprofits, landowners, and community organizers are creating novel digital platforms and databases to track unconventional oil and gas well development and document fracking's environmental and human health impacts. These platforms model alternative approaches for academic and grassroots engagement with the government and the fossil fuel industry. A call to action, Fractivism outlines a way forward for not just the fifteen million Americans who live within a mile of an unconventional oil or gas well, but for the planet as a whole. —From publisher’s description.
- The Keystone XL Pipeline by Angelina Pagano
Call Number: TD195.P5 K49 2014
ISBN: 9781631179006
Published/Created: 2014
Policymakers continue to debate various issues associated with the Keystone XL pipeline. Although some groups have opposed previous oil pipelines -- Alberta Clipper and the Keystone mainline, both of which are operating -- opposition to the Keystone XL proposal has generated substantially more interest among environmental stakeholders. This book discusses the background and the environmental issues the Keystone XL pipeline would cause. —From publisher’s description.
Call Number: Microfilm 88/177
Published/Created: 1979
[7 microfilm reels] Reproduces hearings and reports of the House and Senate Committees and Subcommittees dealing with energy resources and prices, conservation, and U.S. foreign energy policy. It also includes some reports of the Department of the Interior, the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Congressional Research Service. The items are dated from 1974 through 1978 and vary widely in length. Accompanied by a printed reel guide, edited by John Moscato. (MicRR Guide no. 105-118.)
Call Number: Microfilm 88/175
Published/Created: 1979
[6 microfilm reels] Reproduces reports of the Department of the Interior (U.S. Geological Survey), the Department of Commerce (Bureau of International Commerce), the Federal Trade Commission, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Office of Technology Assessment, the General Accounting Office, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy, as well as reports and hearings of interested Senate and House Committees and Subcommittees. The items are dated from 1975 through 1978 and focus on various aspects of U.S. domestic and foreign energy policy (petroleum and natural gas). The reports vary greatly in length (from 18 to 1,200 pages), but there are only about fifty items in all. Accompanied by printed reel guide edited by Joan Gibson. (MicRR guide no. 105-119.)
Call Number: Microfilm 88/176
Published/Created: 1982
[6 microfilm reels] Reproduces 46 reports of various government bodies (in particular the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy, the General Accounting Office, and the Office of Technology Assessment), as well as of several universities and private corporations. The reports deal primarily with U.S. domestic energy policy (conservation, exploration, alternative energy sources) and likely future trends for the international energy market. The reports are dated from 1978 to 1980 and vary in length from 9 to 427 pages. Accompanied by printed reel guide edited by Paul Kesaris. (MicRR guide no. 105-120.)
Call Number: E99.D1 E87 2019
ISBN: 9781786636720
Published/Created: 2019
How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life." In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance. —From publisher’s description.
- Saudi America by Bethany McLean
ISBN: 9780999745441
Published/Created: 2018
The technology of fracking in shale rock -- particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas -- has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be "energy independent" and a "net exporter" in less than a decade, a move that will upend global politics, destabilize Saudi Arabia, crush Russia's chokehold over Europe, and finally bolster American power again. Or will it? Investigative journalist Bethany McLean digs deep into the cycles of boom and bust that have plagued the American oil industry for the past decade, from the financial wizardry and mysterious death of fracking pioneer Aubrey McClendon, to the investors who are questioning the very economics of shale itself. McLean finds that fracking is a business built on attracting ever-more gigantic amounts of capital investment, while promises of huge returns have yet to bear out. Saudi America tells a remarkable story that will persuade you to think about the power of oil in a new way. —From publisher’s description.
- The Scramble for African Oil by Douglas A. Yates
Call Number: HD9577.A2 Y38 2012
ISBN: 9780745330464
Published/Created: 2012
This is a history of the abuses suffered by Africa through colonial, imperial and capitalistic scrambles for oil that have plagued the continent for centuries. France, the US, Portugal, Spain and other western nations have continually plundered Africa's resources, leading to political corruption and the annihilation of democracy that continues to this day. —From publisher’s description.
- The Secret World of Oil by Ken Silverstein
Call Number: HD9560.5 .S537 2014
ISBN: 9781781681374
Published/Created: 2014
The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting-ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this largely hidden world. The global fleet of some 11,000 tankers--that's tripled during the past decade--moves approximately 2 billion metric tons of oil annually. And every stage of the route, from discovery to consumption, is tainted by corruption and violence, even if little of that is visible to the public. Based on trips to New York, Washington, Houston, London, Paris, Geneva, Phnom Penh, Dakar, Lagos, Baku, and Moscow, among other far-flung locals, The Secret World of Oil includes up-close portraits of a shadowy Baku-based trader; a high-flying London fixer; and an oil dictator's playboy son who has to choose one of his 11 luxury vehicles when he heads out to party in Los Angeles. Supported by funding from the prestigious Open Society, this is both an entertaining global travelogue and a major work of investigative reporting. —From publisher’s description.
- The Teapot Dome Documents by University Publications of America
Call Number: Microfilm 88/246 (E)
Seven (7) microfilm reels of material such as the bribery indictment, transcriptions of United States v. Albert B. Fall, Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company v. United States of America, and hearings before the U.S. Congress Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys.
- The Teapot Dome Scandal by Laton McCartney
Call Number: E785 .M38 2008
ISBN: 9781400063161
Published/Created: 2008
"In the Teapot Dome Scandal, acclaimed author Laton McCartney tells the amazing, complex, and at times ribald story of how Big Oil handpicked Warren G. Harding, an obscure Ohio senator, to serve as our twenty-third president. Harding and his so-called "oil cabinet" made it possible for the oilmen to secure vast fuel reserves that had been set aside for wartime use by the U.S. Navy. In exchange, the oilmen paid off senior government officials, bribed newspaper publishers, and covered the GOP campaign debt." "When news of the scandal finally emerged, the consequences were disastrous for the nation and for the principles in the plot to bilk the taxpayers: Harding's administration was hamstrung; Americans' confidence in their government plummeted; Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall was indicted, convicted, and incarcerated; and others implicated in the affair suffered similarly dire fates. Stonewalling by members of Harding's circle kept a lid on the story - witnesses developed "family" memories or fled the country, and important documents went missing - but contemporary records newly made available to McCartney reveal a shocking, revelatory picture of just how far - reaching the affair was, how high the stakes, and how powerful the conspirators." —From publisher’s description.
