Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin - Softcover

Clancy, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774820551 ISBN 13: 9780774820554

Publisher: UBC Press, 2012

Synopsis

The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves represents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleum development. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is no exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges, accommodations, and settlements.

Peter Clancy’s comprehensive analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the complex intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore development. Among the analytic themes he addresses are institutional adaptation and rigidity, “basin development” as a policy challenge, the strong and weak characteristics of the offshore state, and the shifting shapes of the offshore polity. His incisive analysis of the complex politics at play provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum industry in Atlantic Canada.

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About the Author

Peter Clancy is a professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

From the Back Cover

The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves
represents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleum
development. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is no
exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half
century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges,
accommodations, and settlements. Peter Clancy's comprehensive
analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the complex
intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological
concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore
development. His incisive analysis of the complex politics at play
provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum
industry in Atlantic Canada.

From the Inside Flap

The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves
represents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleum
development. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is no
exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half
century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges,
accommodations, and settlements. Peter Clancy's comprehensive
analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the complex
intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological
concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore
development. His incisive analysis of the complex politics at play
provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum
industry in Atlantic Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774820551
• ISBN 13: 9780774820554
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436