Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development / / ed. by G. Bruce Doern.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abele, Frances,; Bankes, Nigel,; Brownsey, Keith,; Carpentier, C. Line,; Dewees, Donald N.,; Doern, G. Bruce,; Gattinger, Monica,; Jarvis, Bill,; Lucas, Alastair,; Miller, Paul,; Morrison, Robert W.,; Patterson, Zachary,; Plourde, André,; Schott, Stephan,; Vaughan, Scott,; Wenig, Michael M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Doern, G. Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)

In recent years, energy policy has been increasingly linked to concepts of sustainable development. In this timely collection, editor G. Bruce Doern presents an overview of Canadian energy policy, gathering together the top Canadian scholars in the field in an examination of the twenty-year period broadly benchmarked by energy liberalization and free trade in the mid-1980s, and by Canada's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in 2002.The contributors examine issues including electricity restructuring in the wake of the August 2003 blackout, the implications of the Bush Administration's energy policies, energy security, northern pipelines and Aboriginal energy issues, provincial changes in energy policy, and overall federal-provincial changes in regulatory governance. They also demonstrate that, since per capita energy usage has actually increased in the past several years, sustainable development remains very much a struggle rather than an achievement. When the Kyoto Protocol and its requirements for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are factored in, the Canadian record is especially dubious in basic energy terms. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development is key to understanding many of the issues in Canada's endeavour to live up to its energy-related environmental responsibilities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Canadian Energy Policy and the Struggle for Sustainable Development: Political-Economic Context G. BRUCE -- Chapter 2. The Changing Nature of National and Continental Energy Markets -- Chapter 3. Energy Policy and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 4. Accounting for the Uncountable: Valuing the Environment in Energy Policy -- Chapter 5. Electricity Restructuring in Canada -- Chapter 6. Canada-U.S. Electricity Trade and the Climate Change Agenda -- Chapter 7. Sustainable and Socially Efficient Electricity Production: How Will Ontario Satisfy the Criteria? -- Chapter 8. Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry in the Era of the Kyoto Protocol -- Chapter 9. The Smartest Steward? Indigenous People and Petroleum-Based Economic Development in Canada's North -- Chapter 10. Northern Gas Pipeline Policy and Sustainable Development, Then. And Now? -- Chapter 11. Alternative Dispute Resolution in Energy Regulation: Opportunities, Experiences, and Prospects -- Chapter 12. The Alberta Energy Sector's Voluntary Approach to Climate Change: Context, Prospects, and Limits -- Chapter 13. Conclusions and Related Energy Policy Challenges for a Martin Liberal Government -- Contributors