Joining Up and Scaling Up: Analyzing Resistance to Canada’s “Dirty Oil”

Haluza‐DeLay, Randolph; Carter, Angela

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4360-1_19

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“…Moreover, new digital technologies are shifting jobs away from the hinterlands to high-tech centres. As rural communities are rendered superfluous to the needs of capital, rural populations that were once 117 Haluza-DeLay and Carter 2014;Klein 2014;Bradshaw 2015;Bosworth 2019. 118 Mills and McCreary 2021.…”

Section: The Issue Of Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis in the Tar Sands: Fossil Capitalism and the Future of the Alberta Hydrocarbon Economy

McCreary

2021

Hist. Mater.

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Using a case study of Alberta, Canada, this paper demonstrates how a geographic critique of fossil capitalism helps elucidate the tensions shaping tar sands development. Conflicts over pipelines and Indigenous territorial claims are challenging development trajectories, as tar sands companies need to expand access to markets in order to expand production. While these conflicts are now well recognised, there are also broader dynamics shaping development. States face a rentier’s dilemma, relying on capital investments to realise resource value. Political responses to the emerging climate crisis undercut the profitability of hydrocarbon extraction. The automation of production undermines the industrial compromise between hydrocarbon labour and capital. Ultimately, the crises of fossil capitalism require a radical transformation within or beyond capital relations. To mobilise against the tar sands, organisers must recognise the tensions underpinning it, developing strategies that address ecological concerns and the economic plight of those dispossessed and abandoned by carbon extraction.

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Section: The Issue Of Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis in the Tar Sands: Fossil Capitalism and the Future of the Alberta Hydrocarbon Economy

McCreary

2021

Hist. Mater.

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“…Place-based ethics serve as a foundation for critiques of colonial power relations (Coombes et al 2012;Coulthard 2014). Place-based politics rooted in Indigenous conceptions of responsibility and autonomy form a basis for alliance-building (with both humans and nonhumans) (Coombes et al 2013;Haluza-DeLay and Carter 2014). Relational conceptions of place also emphasize the distinct nature of Indigenous ontologies and their potential for transforming how knowledge is generated (Coombes et al 2013;Johnson et al 2016).…”

Section: Indigenous Geographies and Political Ecology?mentioning

confidence: 99%

"Anishinaabe time": temporalities and impact assessment in pipeline reviews

Awasis

2020

Journal of Political Ecology

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Indigenous ways of living that embrace multiple temporalities have been largely supplanted by a single, linear colonial temporality. Drawing on theoretical insights from Indigenous geographies and political ecology, this article considers how pipeline reviews come into being through contested temporalities and how dominant modes of time dispossess Indigenous peoples of self-determination in energy decision-making. In particular, Anishinaabe clan governance – a form of kinship that provides both social identity and function based on relations to animal nations – is undermined in colonial decision-making processes. Through analysis of documents from Canada's National Energy Board and interviews with Anishinaabe pipeline opponents, I explore tensions between Anishinaabe and settler temporalities reflected in the 2012-2017 Line 9 pipeline dispute in the Great Lakes region. These include divergent understandings of periodicities, timeframes, kinship relations, and the role of nonhuman temporalities in decision-making. Colonial temporal modes that have been imposed on Indigenous communities foreshorten timescales, depoliticize kinship relations, and discount nonhumans in decision-making – resulting in narrower and more short-sighted project reviews than Anishinaabe temporalities would support. I argue that the rich concepts of kinship, queerness, continuity, and prophecy embedded in Anishinaabe temporalities can inform strategies for decolonizing energy review processes and open possibilities for Indigenous self-determination in energy decision-making.Keywords: Anishinaabe studies, Two-Spirit, Indigenous geographies, temporalities, Indigenous knowledge, energy governance, pipeline, National Energy Board

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“…These successfully halted a number of projects including the Enbridge Northern Gateway and Energy East pipelines. Significantly, a major global movement against Tar Sands extraction in Alberta and its implications for climate change and Indigenous rights had a real effect on the presence of transnational industry at home ( Haluza Delay and Carter, 2014 ). Assisted by a major drop in oil prices, this ultimately prompted the exodus of major transnational operators from Northern Alberta, including Shell.…”

Section: The Context: Canadian Regulation Of Extractive Industrymentioning

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Enhancing corporate standing, shifting blame: An examination of Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act

Ciupa

Zalik

2020

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Highlights Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures act (ESTMA) - passed into law in 2014 - made Canada compliant with the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and created legislation comparable to transparency directives in the EU and USA. Consideration of Tahoe Resources/Goldcorp, De beers and Africa Oil Corporation financial reporting for the ESTMA. Lack of reporting oversight leaves monitoring and review of incomplete information to civil society organizations. Limited standardization in reporting and exclusions make evaluation difficult. Mining firm ESTMA financial reports offer security to, and legitimation of, industry activities.

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Joining Up and Scaling Up: Analyzing Resistance to Canada’s “Dirty Oil”

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Crisis in the Tar Sands: Fossil Capitalism and the Future of the Alberta Hydrocarbon Economy

Crisis in the Tar Sands: Fossil Capitalism and the Future of the Alberta Hydrocarbon Economy

"Anishinaabe time": temporalities and impact assessment in pipeline reviews

Enhancing corporate standing, shifting blame: An examination of Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act

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