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| Andrew Nikiforuk |
Nikiforuk is not your garden variety energy writer nor one who counts barrels
of oil or merely gives dimension to the brisk shale oil business. He describes himself
as one who “cares deeply about accuracy, government accountability, and
cumulative impacts.”
Whether big oil or big hydro, his focus is how the management and development of megaprojects in the energy sector seem to either corrupt public policy or find propulsion
in jurisdictions suffering from a policy vacuum.
In analysing the impact on societies
and their institutional structure from such mega developments, Nikiforuk and
Vardy are two peas in a pod.
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| David Vardy |
I found the interview with Vardy and Andrew Nikiforuk compelling and well worth bringing to your attention.
Incidentally, Nikiforuk is an award winning author, His books
include Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil, The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil
and the Future of the Continent, an award winning bestseller.
Others include Empire of the
Beetle as well as Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s
Most Powerful Industry; the latter winning the 2016 Science in Society
Journalism Award.
Nikiforuk is also a contributing editor to a Blog out of
British Columbia called The Tyee.
Find the Nikiforuk/Vardy piece at this Link: Site C, Other Dams Symptoms of Broken-Democracy.
