Back to the Future: North America’s Petroleum Revolution and the Increased Transportation of Oil by Rail

University of Calgary history Professor Paul Chastko delivers Gonzaga University’s William L. Davis, S.J. Lecture, discussing how the “shale revolution” of the first decade of the 21st century has remade North American energy fundamentals by increasing U.S. production of oil and gas and enabling the United States to become a net energy exporter for the first time since 1970.