Fixing Niagara Falls
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Author | : Daniel Macfarlane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780774864268 |
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"Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. "Fixing Niagara Falls" reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane shows how this natural wonder is essentially a tap: huge tunnels around the reconfigured falls channel the waters of the Niagara River, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary and transborder perspective on how the Niagara landscape embodies the power of technology and nature."--
Author | : Daniel Macfarlane |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0774864257 |
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Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane shows how this natural wonder is essentially a tap: huge tunnels around the reconfigured Falls channel the waters of the Niagara River, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary and transborder perspective on how the Niagara landscape embodies the power of technology and nature.
Author | : Megan Stine |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0448484250 |
Download Where Is Niagara Falls? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
While traveling through Canada in 1678, a French priest came across the most gigantic waterfalls he'd ever seen. Stricken with both awe and fear, he began to shake, fell to his knees, and prayed. Ever since, people from all over the world have come to explore Niagara: among them the daredevils determined to tumble down or walk across the falls on tightrope. Kids will get a kick reading about the hare-brained stunts and will also learn how the falls were formed and how--one day--they will disappear.
Author | : Henry Winkler |
Publisher | : ABDO |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781599611082 |
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Fourth-graders Hank, Ashley, and Frankie are excitedly preparing for a magic show at the Rock 'N Bowl when Hank's creative alternative to an English essay lands him in detention and grounded the week of the show.
Author | : Karen Bakker |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2011-11-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0774840099 |
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As the sustainability of our natural resources is increasingly questioned, Canadians remain stubbornly convinced of the unassailability of our water. Mounting evidence suggests, however, that Canadian water is under threat. Eau Canada assembles the country's top water experts to discuss our most pressing water issues. Perspectives from a broad range of thinkers � geographers, environmental lawyers, former government officials, aquatic and political scientists, and economists � reflect the diversity of concerns in water management. Arguing that weak governance is at the heart of Canada's water problems, this timely book identifies our key failings, explores debates over jurisdiction, transboundary waters, exports, and privatization, and maps out solutions for protecting our most important resource.
Author | : King Camp Gillette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Social problems |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Stephen Crocker |
Publisher | : Social and Economic Papers |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781894725941 |
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"For almost a decade now, the 13 billion dollar Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project has been a central defining problem in the public life of Newfoundland and Labrador. As the essays collected in Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation show, the dam's promise of clean hydro-power has been accompanied by an interconnected assemblage of crises linking together the threat of methylmercury poisoning with catastrophic flooding and cultural genocide for people living near the dam, and unmanageable public debt, suppression of alternative energy and threats to affordable domestic heat and electricity for everyone else. Its planning and development have involved the weakening of public regulatory bodies and the creation of a more privatized and less publicly accountable crown corporation overseeing the operation. Muskrat Falls: How a Mega-Dam Became a Predatory Formation offers a multi-dimensional analysis of the social, political and environmental problems the hydroelectric project has caused. It covers issues including Indigenous resistance to the dam; the politics and economics of the project; the role of journalism and social media in covering the event; controversy about the geophysical stability of the dam and interviews people living under threat of flooding and methylmercury poisoning downstream. The volume also contains original artwork and photography about the dam and fictional prose about life in the area around the Falls. Muskrat Falls will be of interest to local readers trying to understand how the dam will change life in the province and to anyone trying to understand and respond to any of the very many other similar, crisis-ridden energy and infrastructure projects being built around the world now. The book provides a rich case study of a crisis for scholars and students interested in areas such as energy studies, environmental humanities, Indigenous studies, critical infrastructure studies, and Canadian studies."--
Author | : Erno Rossi |
Publisher | : Seventy Seven Publishing |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780920926048 |
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The American Dream came true in Canada as U.S. entrepreneurs converted a wilderness lakeshore into the Crystal Beach amusement park. An excursion to Crystal Beach meant a trip on the Canadiana or one of the other ferries that whisked eager Americans over the border. Once inside the park, visitors experienced unforgettable sights, smells and thrills.
Author | : Ronald Rudin |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774866780 |
Download Against the Tides Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
For four centuries, dykes turned salt marsh into arable land in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. But by the 1940s, the aging dykes were in poor repair. Against the Tides is the never-before-told story of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration, a federal agency created in 1948 to reshape the landscape. Agency engineers sometimes borrowed from long-standing dykeland practices, but they also disregarded local conditions in building tidal dams that compromised some of the region’s rivers. This vivid account of a distinctive landscape and its occupants reveals the push–pull of local and expert knowledge and the role of the postwar state.
Author | : Marion Dane Bauer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0689869444 |
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Discusses the history and lore of Niagara Falls.