Summary: This PBS miniseries tells the epic history of oil ... how it has dominated global politics, shaken the world economy, and transformed our century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PRI

Summary: Marred by an over-reliance on stock footage, this documentary attempts to link the United States insatiable appetite for oil as the chief trigger of the war in Iraq. After making some frightening if familiar points about increasing oil consumption and diminishing reserves is unfortunately veers off into discussions of radioactive depleted uranium rounds in Afghanistan, the privatization of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Free-Will Productions 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OIL

Coyne, Amanda.

Summary: The story of America's last frontier and oil province from the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968, to its crossroads today after Governor Sarah Palin.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.8 COY

Summary: To protect the Alaskan wilderness and its people an oil-rig roughneck and a Native Alaskan environmental activist battle a renegade oil company.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OND

Artist Not Provided

Summary: Examines how the fossil industry casts doubt on climate change to protect their business interests.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Public Broadcasting Service 2022

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV POW

Isser, Steve

Summary: This book, originally published in 1996, traces the development of US government policy toward the oil industry during the 1920s and 1930s when the domestic syustem of production control was established. It then charts the deveopment and collapse of oil import controls, and the wild scramble for economic rents generated by Government regulation. It discusses the two oil crises and the 'phantom'...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 ISS

Beaton, Kate

Summary: Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta's oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can't find it in the homeland they love so much. Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed. Beaton's natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn and Quarterly 2022

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BEATON, KATE BEA

Briody, Blaire

Summary: The New Wild West is the definitive account of what's happening on the ground and what really happens to a community when the energy industry is allowed to set up in a town with little regulation or oversight - and at what cost.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 BRI

McLean, Bethany

Summary: The technology of fracking in shale rock -- particularly in the Permian Basin in Texas -- has transformed America into the world's top producer of both oil and natural gas. The U.S. is expected to be "energy independent" and a "net exporter" in less than a decade, a move that will upend global politics, destabilize Saudi Arabia, crush Russia's chokehold over Europe, and finally bolster American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Global Reports 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333 .823 MCL

Goodstein, David L.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 622.1828 GOO

LaDuke, Winona

Summary: "Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years -- sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3. For this book, Winona discusses several elements of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Fernwood Publishing 2020

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 LAD

Summary: Nicole Torre interviews oil and petroleum company CEO's and top executives, and the mayors of Houston and Sweetwater, Texas. "Step inside the oil culture to understand just how the USA became so addicted and why Houston believes we must go 'Green' for a secure domestic energy future."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Angle Media 2009

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HOU

Silverstein, Ken.

Summary: "The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments, and multinational corporations, and until now, no book has set out to tell the story of this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 SIL

Summary: "THE RELUCTANT RADICAL is an intimate portrait of climate activist Ken Ward. Ken breaks the law as a last resort and with great trepidation, to fulfill what he sees as his personal obligation to future generations. The film follows Ken through a series of civil disobedience direct actions, culminating with his participation in the coordinated action that shut down all the U.S. tar sands oil...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC REL

Maddow, Rachel

Summary: Rachel Maddow offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil and gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe, from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea, exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically, stunted its...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 338.2 MAD

Early, Steve

Summary: The People vs. Big Oil--how a working-class company town harnessed the power of local politics to reclaim their community Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and poorly funded public services. It had...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 EAR

Maddow, Rachel

Summary: "Rachel Maddow's Blowout offers a dark, serpentine, riveting tour of the unimaginably lucrative and corrupt oil-and-gas industry. With her trademark black humor, Maddow takes us on a switchback journey around the globe-from Oklahoma City to Siberia to Equatorial Guinea-exposing the greed and incompetence of Big Oil and Gas. She shows how Russia's rich reserves of crude have, paradoxically,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.2 MAD

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 338.2 MAD

McKibben, Bill.

Summary: "Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.7 MCK

Sandford, John

Summary: "By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now she's restless and bored in a desk job for a U.S. Senator, but just as she's ready to quit, she is offered a task she can't refuse: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security. Several oil companies in Texas have...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SAN

Berlinger, Joe

Summary: Documents the lawsuit brought against Chevron by thousands of Ecudorean natives over contamination of water in the Ecuadorean Amazon rainforest.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CRU

Summary: Presents a collection of animated advertising films produced between 1950 and 1960 which provide insight into the marketing strategies used during the decade. Included here are a corporate-sponsored cartoon where Martians learn that oil and competition are two things that make America great and an "I like Ike" animated television commercial.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A2ZCDS.COM 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 History

Baer, Robert.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.538 BAER

Barnett, Jill.

Summary: In the aftermath of a fatal car crash, Laurel grows up in a single-parent home and Cale and Jud Banning are raised by their grandfather, a situation that culminates years later in the Banning brothers' heated rivalry for Laurel's affections.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARNE

Grove, Fred.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRO