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The petroleum papers : inside the far-right conspiracy to cover up climate change / by Dembicki, Geoff,author.; David Suzuki Institute.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Drawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that's stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis. In The Petroleum Papers, investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki tells the story of how the American oil companies that founded the tar sands in Alberta, Canada--home to the third-biggest oil reserves on the planet--ignored warnings about climate devastation as early as 1959. Instead of alerting the world to act on this impending global disaster, Exxon, Koch Industries, Shell and others created ad campaigns saying climate change isn't real and that alternatives to oil are an economic disaster. These companies built a global right-wing echo chamber to ensure tar sands could keep flowing into the U.S., which helped elect Donald Trump and now leaves the Joe Biden administration with a sprawling climate mess. But Dembicki also tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back: the Seattle lawyer who brought Big Tobacco to its knees and is now going after Big Oil, a young Filipino activist who saw her family drown in a climate disaster, and a former engineer at Exxon who was pushed out for asking too many hard questions. With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame."--
Subjects: Climatic changes; Petroleum industry and trade; Right and left (Political science);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The transition handbook : from oil dependency to local resilience / by Hopkins, Rob,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-236), Internet addresses and index.LSC
Subjects: Petroleum reserves.; Self-reliant living.; Sustainable living.; Energy conservation.;
© 2008., Green Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cold skies / by King, Thomas,1943-author.;
Thumps DreadfulWater has finally found some peace and quiet. His past as a California cop now far behind him, he's living out his retirement as a fine-arts photographer in the small town of Chinook. His health isn't great, and he could use a new stove, but as long as he's got his cat and a halfway decent plate of eggs, life is good. All that changes when a body turns up on the eve of a major water conference and the understaffed sheriff's department turns to Thumps for help. Thumps wants none of it, but even he is intrigued when he learns the deceased was developing a new technology that could revolutionize water and oil drilling ... and that could also lose some very powerful people a lot of money. As strangers begin to pour into Chinook for the conference, Thumps finds himself sinking deeper and deeper into a conflict between secretive players who will kill to get what they want.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cherokee Indians; Murder; Water well drilling; Petroleum;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Act of war / by Brown, Dale,1956-;
Subjects: Adventure stories; Petroleum refineries; Special forces (Military science); Terrorism; Suspense fiction;
© c2005., William Morrow,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Last house : by Shattuck, Jessica,author.;
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Oil industries; Petroleum; Protest movements;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Last house [text (large print)] : by Shattuck, Jessica,author.;
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Families; Oil industries; Petroleum; Protest movements;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Kochland : the secret history of Koch Industries and corporate power in America / by Leonard, Christopher,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The annual revenue of Koch Industries is bigger than that of Goldman Sachs, Facebook, and US Steel combined. Together, CEO Charles Koch and his brother David Koch are richer than Bill Gates. Christopher Leonards 'Kochland', which has been seven years in the making, is like a true life thriller. He uses the extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
Subjects: Koch Industries; Petroleum industry and trade; Corporate power;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Pipe dreams : the fight for Canada's energy future / by Poitras, Jacques,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Oil sands industry.; Petroleum industry and trade.; Energy industries.; Climatic changes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black water rising / by Locke, Attica.;
Subjects: Legal stories.; Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Corporations; Lawyers; Petroleum industry and trade; Porter, Jay (Fictitious character);
© 2009., HarperCollins,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Losing Earth : a recent history / by Rich, Nathaniel,1980-author.;
Includes bibliographical references."By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. This is their story"--
Subjects: Global warming; Global environmental change; Carbon dioxide; Petroleum industry and trade;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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