Institutions and Environmental Politics: Or Why the Keystone XL Pipeline Is So Controversial

Colloquium lunch followed by talk at approximately 12:30. RSVP. This paper explores the politics surrounding the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada to the US Gulf Coast. It highlights the importance of political institutions and the failure of those institutions to include environmental opponents to oil/tar sands exploitation in decision-making.

Speaker: Ian Urquhart, Univ. of Alberta

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Room: 223