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Stephanie LeMenager, literature professor and author of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014), opens her study of America’s relationship with the resource by asserting that reports of its death have been exaggerated. Oil not only drive American modernity, but also inspire writers to explore it, in both fiction and non-fiction. While “petrofiction,” fiction with oil at its core, has received critical attention, certain new developments in non-fictional writing centred on petroleum call for more consideration. This article, therefore, probes representations of oil in contemporary American and Canadian non-fiction. It analyses William L. Fox’s essay “A Pipeline Runs through It” (2011), which is based on a trip along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, and Andrew Nikiforuk’s article “Canadian Democracy: Death by Pipeline” (2012), which discusses the impact of the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia. Adopting an ecocritical perspective, the article puts to the test LeMenager’s thesis that journalists are “expert plotters against oil” and “conservationists.” To this aim, it analyses the specific means by which the two journalists expose the presence of oil, and highlight its micro and macro implications, from its impact on the landscape and the lives of people whose livelihoods and cultures have been shaped by the natural world, to that on democracy and our minds.  Resumen Stephanie LeMenager, profesora de literatura y autora de Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (2014), abre su estudio sobre la relacion de los Estados Unidos con el petroleo como recurso natural, mediante la afirmacion de que los informes de su muerte han sido exagerados. El petroleo no solo impulsa la modernidad americana sino tambien inspira a los escritores para explorarlo tanto en la ficcion como en la no-ficcion. Mientras que la “petroficcion,” ficcion centrada en el petroleo, ha sido objeto de atencion critica, algunos nuevos desarrollos en la escritura de no-ficcion centrada en el petroleo causan mayor interes. Este articulo trata de representar al petroleo en la no-ficcion contemporanea americana y canadiense. Analiza el ensayo de William L. Fox “A Pipeline Runs through It” (2011), basado en un viaje a lo largo del sistema de oleoducto Trans-Alaska, y el articulo de Andrew Nikiforuk “Canadian Democracy: Death by Pipeline” (2012), discutiendo el impacto de la propuesta del oleoducto del Norte desde Alberta hasta la Columbia Britanica. Adoptando una perspectiva ecocritica, el articulo pone a prueba las tesis de LeMenager de que los periodistas como “expertos conspiradores contra el petroleo” y “conservacionistas”. Para ello, analiza los medios especificos por los cuales los dos periodistas exponen la presencia de petroleo y destacan sus macro y micro implicaciones, desde su impacto en el paisaje y en las vidas de las personas cuyos medios de vida y culturas han sido moldeadas por el mundo natural, hasta su impacto en la democracia y en nuestras mentes.

<b>Plotting Against Oil in American and Canadian Non-fiction</b> // Conspirando contra el petróleo en la no-ficción americana y canadiense