<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dance, Anne T.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Landscapes of perception: Reclaiming the Athabasca oil sands and the Sydney tar ponds</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alberta</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Canadian environmental policy</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cape Breton</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">coke ovens</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">contaminated sites</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">environmental history</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">environmental justice</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">landscape history</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">mining</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">oil sands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">pollution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">reclamation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">remediation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sydney tar ponds</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">tar sands</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2013</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Sterling School of Arts and Humanities </style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stirling, Scotland</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This interdisciplinary project offers new insights into the reclamation history of two of the most controversial and contaminated sites in Canadian history: the Sydney tar ponds and coke ovens and the Athabasca oil sands. It argues that Canada’s natural resource-dependent economy, combined with jurisdictional uncertainty, created a hesitant, fragmentary site cleanup regime, one that left room for different ideas about landscapes to shape and even distort reclamation’s goals and processes. In the absence of substantive reclamation standards and legislation, researchers struggled to accommodate the unique challenges of the oil sands during the 1960s and 1970s. Ambitious goals for reclamation faltered, and even the most successful examples of oil sands reclamation differed significantly from the pre-extraction environment; reclamation was not restoration. Planners envisioned transforming northeastern Alberta into a managed wilderness and recreation nirvana, but few of these plans were realised. The Sydney tar ponds experience suggests that truly successful reclamation cannot exist unless past injustices are fully acknowledged, reparations made, and a more complete narrative of contamination and reclamation constructed through open deliberation. Reclamation, after all, does not repair history; nor can it erase the past. Effective oil sands reclamation, then, requires a reconsideration of the site’s past and an acknowledgement of the perpetuated vulnerabilities and injustices wrought by development and reclamation.</style></abstract><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sydney tar ponds, Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR)</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/868075229</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSEMB</style></custom4></record></records></xml>