Well, you could read this instead: Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent.
Or this William Marsden, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and doesn’t seem to care) which actually won the Business Book Award in 2009.
Or this: David Finch, Pumped: Everyone's Guide to the Oil Patch a readable primer, and an award-winner in Alberta.
Or even this: my Beaver column on the history of oil and Alberta.
The National Business Book Award website is here.
