THE PATCH: The People, Pipelines and Politics of the Oil Sands

The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands,  published by Simon & Schuster.  

The Patch provides a balanced perspective on the  often-polarizing national debate about the development of Canada’s oil  sands.  With two conflicting world views – one of industrial triumph,  the other of environmental concerns in the age of climate change –  Turner explains the history, science and context surrounding one of the  world’s largest engineering projects and its significance for all Canadians.

The Patch is particularly timely because of the  federal government’s recent investment in the Kinder Morgan pipeline and its heightened focus on market access. This means that Canadians not only need to engage, but they need to be better informed.

Chris Turner is an award-winning author and one of Canada’s leading voices  on climate solutions and the global energy transition. He is a National Business Book Award finalist for The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy and The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Know and has earned nine National Magazine Awards. He lives in Calgary.

The 2018 finalists included:

• Patricia Meredith and James Darroch, Stumbling Giants: Transforming Canada’s Banks for the Information Age, published by University of Toronto Press

• Jennifer Riel and Roger Martin, Creating Great Choices: A Leader’s Guide to Integrative Thinking, published by Harvard Business Review Press

• Donald Savoie, Looking for Bootstraps: Economic Development in the Maritimes, published by Nimbus Publishing