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\"\"Most authors count themselves lucky to be nominated for even one\u00a0of this country’s celebrated book awards. Jacques Poitras<\/a> (BJ ’90\/MJ ’91) is on shortlists for two<\/em> distinguished awards\u00a0\u2013 the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing<\/a> and the John W. Dafoe Book Prize<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 for his book\u00a0Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada’s Energy Future.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pipe Dreams<\/em>\u00a0is the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the Energy East pipeline \u2013 the tale of how Canada’s oil pipelines became hotbeds for debate about our energy future, Indigenous rights, environmental activism, and east-west political tensions.<\/p>\n

\"\"In a cross-country journey, Poitras talked to industry executives, prairie ranchers, First Nations chiefs, mayors, premiers, cabinet ministers, and refinery workers. He also explored Canada’s perplexing oil relationship with the United States: our industry is literally tied to its American counterpart with sinews of steel.<\/p>\n

Poitras has been CBC\u2019s provincial affairs reporter in New Brunswick since 2000. Prior to joining CBC, he worked at the Kingston Whig-Standard;<\/em>\u00a0at Prognosis<\/em>, an English weekly in Prague, Czech Republic; and at the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal<\/em>. Pipe Dreams<\/em> is his fifth book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most authors count themselves lucky to be nominated for even one\u00a0of this country’s celebrated book awards. Jacques Poitras (BJ ’90\/MJ ’91) is on shortlists for two distinguished awards\u00a0\u2013 the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and the John W. Dafoe Book Prize\u00a0\u2013 for his book\u00a0Pipe Dreams: The Fight for Canada’s Energy Future. 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