Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir |
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| Author:
| Armstrong, Christopher
Nelles, H. V. |
| Series title: | Energy, Ecology, and the Environment Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-92695-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Calgary Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $41.95 |
Book Description:
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This engaging book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today s conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta s early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to...
More DescriptionThis engaging book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today s conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta s early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way."