Moving beyond the petrostate: northern gateway, extractivism, and the Canadian petrobloc

Abstract

This article explores the conflict related to the proposed Northern Gateway project between 2010 and 2015, examining claims that an overdependence on oil and gas had rendered Canada a “petrostate.” It argues the “petrostate thesis” is misleading for a multiparty democracy, such as Canada, and offers an alternative Gramscian framework: the Canadian Petrobloc. It then uses social network and discourse analysis to explore how key Petrobloc actors coordinated an emergent response to the anti-Gateway opposition across multiple fields.

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