1st Edition

The Social Impact of Oil The Case of Peterhead

By Robert Moore Copyright 1982
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was changed by North Sea oil. It looks at the wheeling and dealing that went on between property speculators, multinational companies, local government and municipal bodies, as well as discussing the clash of city money and small town as well as the practical problems of the labour... Read more

1. Speculation  2. Planners’ Dilemma  3. The Community Mobilises  4. The Peterhead Harbours  5. The Community of Peterhead  6. The Social Impact of Oil

Biography

Robert Moore