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Boomtown Attitudes and Perceptions Non-renewable Energy Extraction Regions: North Dakota, U.S.A., Oil Shale and Alberta, Canada, Oil Sands

Raycraft, Mary D
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1527606796285623

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2017, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Geography.
Advances in extractive technology have facilitated the ability to obtain the non-renewable energy, oil sands, and oil shale resources. In this dissertation, the social impacts experienced in the Athabasca region of Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB), Alberta, Canada and the Bakken Play in western North Dakota, U.S.A will be explored. This is a multi-site, multi-cultural, and multinational study that compares the responses from these rural geographically diverse regions. A questionnaire was completed by the 95 respondents that participated in this study; 40 from RMWB and 39 from different locations throughout the Bakken Play. In addition, 16 Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (MAH) enrolled members from Fort Berthold Indian Reservations (Three Affiliated Tribes) were included as well. An interview followed the completion of the questionnaires. The resultant mixed methods approach captured their demographic data, socioeconomic, attitudes, perceptions, subjective well-being, and community attachment in the boomtown environment. Although RMWB and the Bakken Play have experienced energy booms in the past, drilling had not occurred on the sovereign lands on Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. In addition, this dissertation will also review the use of social impact assessments (SIA) in Canada (CEPA 1999) and the United States (NEPA 1977) in relation to lessening the impacts in energy resource communities. It is the hope that this research will add to the existing body of work will contribute to understanding the social impacts within a boomtown community.
Roger Selya, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Sandra Browning, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Kevin Raleigh, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Robert South, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
327 p.
Geography
Boomtown; Oil Shale; Oil Sands; Social Disruption; Social Impact Assessment; Word cloud

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  • Raycraft, M. D. (2017). Boomtown Attitudes and Perceptions Non-renewable Energy Extraction Regions: North Dakota, U.S.A., Oil Shale and Alberta, Canada, Oil Sands [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1527606796285623

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Raycraft, Mary. Boomtown Attitudes and Perceptions Non-renewable Energy Extraction Regions: North Dakota, U.S.A., Oil Shale and Alberta, Canada, Oil Sands. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1527606796285623.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Raycraft, Mary. "Boomtown Attitudes and Perceptions Non-renewable Energy Extraction Regions: North Dakota, U.S.A., Oil Shale and Alberta, Canada, Oil Sands." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1527606796285623

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