Essays about: "Trans Mountain pipeline"

Found 1 essay containing the words Trans Mountain pipeline.

  1. 1. "No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there" : Examining the hegemony of fossil fuels in the Trudeau government's discourse on the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Naima Kraushaar-Friesen; [2019]
    Keywords : Trans Mountain pipeline; Canada; fossil-fuel hegemony; climate change; political ecology; carbon lock-in; Critical Discourse Analysis; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As the world’s fifth largest oil producer, and holder of the third largest proven oil reserves, Canada is poised to significantly impact future global carbon emissions. The present government, under the leadership of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is seeking to simultaneously position itself as a global climate leader while supporting the exploitation of Canada’s extensive bitumen oil reserves. READ MORE