Audio: Andrew Nikiforuk on High Noon for Fossil Fuels

By Andrew Nikiforuk, originally published by Global Public Media / CBC Radio

March 11, 2005

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In Brief: Enagaging series that examines the wealth generated from fossil fuels in Alberta, how Canadians are consuming and exporting these natural resources, and what Canada’s energy future holds

In this six part series on CBC radio in Canada, Governor General Award winner Andrew Nikiforuk speaks with Donna McElligott of Wildrose Country about his research on the oil patch and the pioneering work of geologist and gas specialist Dave Hughes.  Andrew looks at the wealth generated from fossil fuels in Alberta, how we are consuming and exporting these natural resources, and what our energy future holds.

Week One:  The state of the resource (7 min)
Week Two:  The Oil Sands – energy & money pit (9 min)
Week Three:  High noon for natural gas (9 min)
Week Four:  Coalbed methane (12 min)
Week Five:  Liabilities and the cost of cleanup (10 min)
Week Six:  Planning for the future (9 min)

Link to original story on CBC

Andrew Nikiforuk

Andrew Nikiforuk has been writing about the oil and gas industry for nearly 20 years and cares deeply about accuracy, government accountability, and cumulative impacts. He has won seven National Magazine Awards for his journalism since 1989 and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists.

Andrew has also published several books. The dramatic, Alberta-based Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. Pandemonium, which examines the impact of global trade on disease exchanges, received widespread national acclaim. The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, which considers the world’s largest energy project, was a national bestseller and won the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was listed as a finalist for the Grantham Prize for Excellence In Reporting on the Environment. Andrew's latest book, Empire of the Beetle, a startling look at pine beetles and the world’s most powerful landscape changer, was nominated for the Governor General’s award for Non-Fiction in 2011.

Tags: Fossil Fuels, Natural Gas, Oil

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