Empowering electricity: co-operatives, sustainability, and power sector reform in Canada

"Canada is known for being an energy producing nation...with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation...

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1. Verfasser: MacArthur, Julie. L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver ; Toronto UBC Press [2016]
Schriftenreihe:The sustainability and the environment series
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Zusammenfassung:"Canada is known for being an energy producing nation...with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation. Empowering Electricity offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development."...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-251) and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (259 Seiten)
ISBN:9780774831451
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