His work develops a cultural and historical approach to problems of resource conflict and development in northern North America and Western Canada. He is the author of Unbuilt Environments: Legacies of Post-War Development and Extractive Economies in Northwest BC (UBC Press, 2017). His research and publications focus on the historical geographies of resource extraction, the social and environmental legacies of megaproject development, environmental politics and knowledge, as well as on the cultural representation of Canadian resources on film. Current research is focused on northern energy, metals and mineral development in subarctic North America and on Prairie Resource Cultures.