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The Oil Sands: Canada’s Path to Clean Energy? launches at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12 at the Central Library, John Dutton Theater, (2nd Floor), WR Castell Central Library, 616 McLeod Trail SE. Admission is free.

An engineer and Harvard MBA who has traveled the world gives his views of the oil sands and how they can become Canada’s path to clean energy.

The oil sands are a perplexing and controversial subject. Most of what we hear is shocking and overwhelmingly negative. But is there more to it than dead ducks and tailings ponds? Gordon Kelly argues convincingly that the oil sands are not the horrendous environmental disaster many suggest. New technologies and strong political and corporate leadership can allow Canadians to lead the world in the development of “clean” mobile power sources in the future, from within and beyond the oil sands.

This book challenges Canada to realize its potential in this critical area and lays out a framework to begin the task.

GORDON KELLY, B.A., Sc., M.B.A., P. Eng., is president of Integrated Planners, Inc., a Calgary firm specializing in corporate intelligence and international marketing. He is an engineer from the University of Toronto and has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He has more than 40 years of experience working in the oil industry with companies such as Imperial Oil, Dome Petroleum, and Arthur D. Little. His experience ranges from roustabout to supervising field operations to planning mega-projects. He has also consulted for major oil firms as well as OPEC. Gordon has worked in 24 countries around the globe, including China and Russia, and uses his experience to explain the oil sands in simple terms.

published by Kingsley, distributed by Fitzhenry & Whiteside
available October, 2009, 978-09784526-50, Cdn $24.95 pb
6 x 9, pb, 336 pages, with 100 charts, photographs and illustrations, bibliography, index

Books are shipping to bookstores now.

Gordon Kelly will be launching  The Oil Sands in Calgary in November and touring the country soon.

Gordon Kelly will be available for interviews in Calgary at the end of October. For review copies or to arrange an interview with Gordon Kelly, contact Lyn Cadence at 403.465.2345 or lyn@cadencepr.ca