
Offshore Petroleum Politics
Description
The extraction of oil and gas from offshore continental shelves represents one of the most dynamic sectors of global petroleum development. It is also one of the most complex. Atlantic Canada is no exception and the history of Scotian Basin petroleum over the past half century reveals a fascinating series of political challenges, accommodations, and settlements.
Peter Clancy's comprehensive analysis of petroleum politics in Nova Scotia demonstrates the complex intergovernmental and intercorporate relationships, ecological concerns, and Aboriginal interests that have complicated offshore development. Among the analytic themes he addresses are institutional adaptation and rigidity, "basin development" as a policy challenge, the strong and weak characteristics of the offshore state, and the shifting shapes of the offshore polity. His incisive analysis of the complex politics at play provides new insights into the unique challenges facing the petroleum industry in Atlantic Canada.
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1 Introduction
Part 1: The Political Economy of Offshore Petroleum
2 The Politics of Offshore Basin Development
Part 2: Parameters of the Offshore State
3 The Political Construction of Administrative Institutions
4 The CNSOPB in Action: Regulatory Politics in Multiple Dimensions
5 The Provincial State and the Entrepreneurial Impulse: NSRL
Part 3: Case Studies in the Offshore Petroleum Chain
6 Corridor Politics: Sable Gas Project Development
7 The Politics of Backward Linkage: Industrial Benefi ts
8 The Politics of Fiscal Entitlement: Offshore Revenues
9 The Onshore Politics of Natural Gas Distribution
10 The Liquefied Natural Gas Factor in Nova Scotia
11 Offshore Politics and the Aboriginal Challenge
12 Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index