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De-Friending Oil: An Evening with Andrew Nikiforuk
Presented by the Tyee and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement: How Petro-dependency Corrodes Our Humanity. And What It Will Take to Pull Free.
Andrew Nikiforuk, one of Canada’s top journalists on energy issues, has spent the past two years researching the key question of our age: If we can’t live with oil, how can we survive giving it up?
Nikiforuk’s acclaimed book The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude argued the petro-economy is a false one allowing us to delude ourselves (until it’s too late?) about what really matters in life.
Nikiforuk’s series on The Tyee, “Big Shift: Leaving Oil Behind,” extended that inquiry by exploring what it will really take -- politically, economically and culturally -- to survive peak oil and stave off climate change.
Moderated by Tyee editor David Beers.
Speaker Bio
Andrew Nikiforuk, the author of the new book The Energy of Slaves: Oil and the New Servitude, has been writing about the oil and gas industry for nearly 20 years and cares deeply about accuracy, government accountability, and cumulative impacts. He has won seven National Magazine Awards for his journalism since 1989 and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists.
Andrew has also published several books. The dramatic, Alberta-based Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. Pandemonium, which examines the impact of global trade on disease exchanges, received widespread national acclaim. The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, which considers the world's largest energy project, was a national bestseller and won the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was listed as a finalist for the Grantham Prize for Excellence In Reporting on the Environment. Andrew's latest book, Empire of the Beetle, a startling look at pine beetles and the world's most powerful landscape changer, was nominated for the Governor General's award for Non-Fiction in 2011.
Co-Presented by
SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement and The Tyee
