Wilderness and Waterpower - How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir (Paperback, New)

Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way.

General

Imprint:	University of Calgary Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	Christopher Armstrong • H.V. Nelles
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	286
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-55238-634-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental economics > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-55238-634-1
Barcode:	9781552386347

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