Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments IX Introduction XI PART I. Blessed by Fossil Fuels? Pittsburgh, Houston, Louisiana, and Los Angeles Chapter 1. Pittsburgh as an Energy Capital: Perspectives on Coal and Natural Gas Transitions and the Environment 5 Joel A. Tarr and Karen Clay Chapter 2: The Energy Capital of the World? Oil-Led Development in Twentieth-Century Houston 30 Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt Chapter 3. Making a Lemon Out of Lemonade: Louisiana’s Petrochemical Corridor 58 Craig E. Colten Chapter 4. Los Angeles, the Energy Capital of Southern California 77 Sarah S. Elkind PART II. Distant yet Central? Perth, Calgary, and Stavanger Chapter 5. Scoping Perth as an Energy Capital 95 Jenny Gregory Chapter 6. At Arm’s Length: Energy and the Construction of a Peripheral Prairie Petrometropolis 111 Matthew N. Eisler Chapter 7. Oil Shocks in an Oil City: The View from Stavanger, Norway, 1973–2008 127 Gunnar Nerheim PART III. Cursed by Oil? Tampico and Port-Gentil Chapter 8. Tampico, Mexico: The Rise and Decline of an Energy Metropolis 147 Myrna Santiago Chapter 9. Port-Gentil: From Forestry Capital to Energy Capital 159 Douglas A. Yates Conclusion. Comparative Perspectives on Energy Capitals 181 Notes 197 Contributors 251 Index 255 viii CONTENTS ...