@mastersthesis {53607,
	title = {Sand and soil: Ecological management and the framing of Mildred Lake},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {136 pages},
	school = {University of Toronto Department of Geography },
	address = {Toronto, Ontario.  },
	abstract = {This paper explores representations of nature that emerge through the ecological management of Mildred Lake, Syncrude{\textquoteright}s Alberta-based oil sands extraction facility. Examining the ways Mildred Lake{\textquoteright}s ecology has been re-presented by site eco-management teams, I argue that technologically produced visions help reproduce the regime of power infusing a state-sanctioned scientific practice of eco- management. {\textquoteleft}Using governmentality theory, Chapter 1 contextualizes activities at Mildred Lake: I show how the Alberta government, tethering the growth of the oil sands to technological innovation, submits eco-management questions to a capital-driven state-developmental framework. Chapter 2 examines how state-sanctioned science is discursively performed through eco-management acts. Chapter 3 uses a case study approach to consider three Mildred Lake eco-management projects: Beaver Creek, the Tailings Pond, and reclamation. While Mildred Lake{\textquoteright}s eco-management practices cannot withstand critical scrutiny, they reveal the culturally and ecologically significant transformations of nature required to sustain authority amid the destructive effects of bitumen extraction.},
	keywords = {planning, social issues, Syncrude},
	url = {https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32911/7/Ritts_Max_J_201006_MA_Thesis.pdf},
	author = {Ritts, M.J.}
}
