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Oil Sands and the Earth. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 44
The Alberta Government posted record budget surpluses
in 2005 and 2006. Revenues were attained primarily
through record non-renewable resource revenues. Oil
sands development as the major economic driver of
Alberta?s economy and accounts for 62 per cent of
major projects. The processes used to develop and
extract energy from the oil sands, mining and in-situ
recovery, are also known to be the most harmful to
the environment with damage ranging from habitat
destruction, depletion of freshwater reserves and the
production of large amounts of greenhouse gas
emissions. Despite the known negative impact on the
environment, record numbers of megaprojects and new
lease agreements are being processed.
Critical praxis theory and critical discourse
analysis methods are utilized to examine how
stakeholders frame issues in the news media to create
and shape public perception of the environmental
impact of energy development in Alberta, Canada.
This book aims to contribute to the field of
discourse analysis by gaining a deeper understanding
of how discourse is used to argue and support an
argument in the print news media.
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