Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Acknowledgments xxiv
6. The Stikine Watershed and the Unbuilt Environment 3
7. Cassiar, Asbestos: How to Know a Place 24
8. Liberating Stranded Resources: The Dease Lake Extension as the Railway to Nowhere 62
9. Corporate Ecology: BC Hydro, Failure, and the Stikine-Iskut Project 89
10. “Industry for the future”: Dome Petroleum and the Afterlives of “Aggressive” Development 113
11. Transmission: Contesting Energy, Enterprise, and Extraction in the New Northwest Gold Rush 136
12. The Tumbling Geography 164
13. Notes 176
14. Bibliography 206
15. Index 228