Empowering Electricity : Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada Hardback
by Julie L. MacArthur
Part of the Sustainability and the Environment series
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 29 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2016
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- ISBN:9780774831437
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:276 pages, 29 tables
- Publisher:University of British Columbia Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780774831437
