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

MacArthur, Julie L., [author]

Overview

\"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.\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Subject: Electric cooperatives Canada. / Electric power production Environmental aspects Canada. / Electric power Canada Citizen participation. / Community development Canada. / Renewable energy sources Canada. / Sustainable development Canada. / Consumer cooperatives Canada. / Energy policy Canada.
• ISBN: 9780774831437, 077483143X

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD9685.C2 M27 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE