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oapen-20.500.12657-574722022-07-19T03:01:31Z Wilderness and Waterpower Nelles, H. V. Armstrong, Christopher bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences 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 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. 2022-07-18T11:54:24Z 2022-07-18T11:54:24Z 2013 book ONIX_20220718_9781552386347_49 19197144 9781552386347 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57472 eng Energy, Ecology, and the Environment application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781552386347.pdf University of Calgary Press 5c7afbd8-3329-4175-a51e-9949eb959527 9781552386347 272 Calgary open access
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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 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.
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