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Nature's Past Episode 050: Canadian Energy History

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dc.contributor.authorKheraj, Sean
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-07T03:16:03Z
dc.date.available2022-03-07T03:16:03Z
dc.date.issued2015-11-24
dc.description.abstractAccording to a study by Richard Unger and John Thistle, Canadians consumed 430 petajoules of energy in 1867. Combining energy from animal labour, food, firewood, wind, water, coal, crude oil, natural gas and electricity, by 2004 Canadians reached a historic peak of energy consumption at 11,526 petajoules. For reference, a petajoule is a unit of energy measurement roughly equivalent to 31.6 million cubic metres of natural gas or 277.78 million kilowatt hours of electricity. Since Confederation, Canadians have been high per capita energy consumers and our appetites for energy have grown substantially over the past 148 years. The way we consume energy has changed quite a bit over that time period too. In 1867, Canadians drew energy primarily from organic sources: animal labour, wood, and agricultural produce. Since the mid-twentieth century, we have drawn increasingly from mineral sources of energy: coal, crude oil, and natural gas. This shift in energy consumption since Confederation has arguably been one of the most consequential changes in Canadian history. It changed our relationships with one another as much as it changed our relationships with nature. The energy history of Canada is as much a concern for environmental history as it is for social history, political history, and cultural history. Energy history is an emerging field in Canada, but one with long historiographical roots. To learn more about Canadian energy history and the development of this new approach to thinking about environment, history, and society, this episode features a round-table discussion with three Canadian historians each of whom were part of an energy history working group at the University of Toronto in 2014-15.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKheraj, Sean. “Episode 50: Canadian Energy History” Nature’s Past: Canadian Environmental History Podcast. 24 November 2015.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/39176
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNetwork in Canadian History and Environmenten_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.publisherhttps://niche-canada.org/2015/11/24/natures-past-episode-50-canadian-energy-history/en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectNature's pasten_US
dc.subjecteditor's picken_US
dc.subjectenergy historyen_US
dc.titleNature's Past Episode 050: Canadian Energy Historyen_US
dc.typeRecording, oralen_US

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