Marsden wins National Business Book Award

Montreal journalist and filmmaker William Marsden was named the winner of the $20,000 National Business Book Award for his book about the environmental degradation of Alberta, Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care).
Marsden, a senior investigative reporter for the Montreal Gazette, argues development of the oilsands is out of control and Alberta is levelling its northern boreal forest, destroying people's health and the agricultural sector with gas wells and depleting and destroying its waterways.
Other contenders for the award were:
Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent.
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.
Beaverbrook: A Shattered Legacy.
The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need.
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