Sand and Soil: Ecological Management and the Framing of Mildred Lake

• Main Author: Ritts, Max
• Other Authors: Prudham, W. Scott, Ruddick, Susan M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: oil sands; science studies; political ecology; geography; Canada; 0366; Mildred Lake; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/32911

This paper explores representations of nature that emerge through the ecological management of Mildred Lake, Syncrude’s Alberta-based oil sands extraction facility. Examining the ways Mildred Lake’s ecology has been re-presented by site eco-management teams, I argue that technologically produced vis...