From Black Gold to Blue Gold: Lessons from the Petroleum Trade Regime for an Emerging Water Trade and Investment Regime
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Water resources in Canada are “potential” or “quasi-staples”. That is, the exploitation of water resources has featured many of the aspects of a staples industry such as their large-scale, technologically influenced, rural-based, bulk-commodity characteristics, but lack others, especially a traditional staples export orientation. However, this situation is changing. In the electricity case, deregulation in both Canada and the US markets has resulted in the emergence of a new production regime in Canada, one that is approaching a typical “mature” staples industry, albeit with the new environmental regulations and conditions for participation of a much broader spectrum of “stakeholders” which bears some resemblance to a ‘post-staples” model. The same is true of water resources as a whole where, for almost two decades, one of the most controversial concerns raised by Canadian opponents of free trade with the United States was that it would lead to the large scale export of water from Canada. Should this come to pass, this commodity would become a “staple” and the water industry which would emerge in Canada would move from “potential” to “actual”
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".