Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist who has written about education, economics, and the environment for the last two decades. His books include Pandemonium, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig”s War Against Oil, which won the Governor General”s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and The Fourth Horseman: A Short History of Plagues, Scourges and Emerging Viruses, which won critical raves in England, Canada and the United States. His work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean”s, Report on Business, Harrowsmith, The National Post, and in The Globe and Mail.
5 Ebooks by Andrew Nikiforuk
Andrew Nikiforuk: Tar Sands
Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the …
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€16.99
Andrew Nikiforuk: Empire of the Beetle
Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually kille …
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€16.99
Andrew Nikiforuk: Slick Water
The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to …
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€29.99
Andrew Nikiforuk: Saboteurs
At Trickle Creek in northern Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig thought he’d buffered his tiny religious community from civilization, but in 1990 civilization came calling. A Calgary oil company proposed to dri …
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€19.99
