Bibliographic record
Abstract
In late summer of 2010 when the German Federal Institute of Geoscience entered into an agreement with Natural Resources Canada to conduct seismic testing in Canada's North, they believed they had correctly submitted all of the appropriate paperwork right up until they received an injunction which eradicated two years of preparation and removed their window of opportunity to proceed. It is well known that much of the engineering work done in the marine arctic environment requires several permits and approvals. Indeed, the overlapping jurisdiction of various national and international bodies along with territorial, provincial, state and local governments has created a patchwork quilt of regulatory regimes and agencies responsible for the implantation and enforcement of these numerous regulatory requirements. In this reality, it can be extremely challenging to determine which approvals and permits are required for any particular project or undertaking and the appropriate regulatory bodies with which to engage . However it's also becoming increasingly apparent that once those approvals are obtained there is no clear sense of whether they will be adequate to allow the project to proceed. Traditionally, proponents have created project timelines that have assumed (understandably) that once environmental and other approvals are obtained they will have certainty that they may proceed. This paper will describe some of the reasons why project approvals do not always provide certainty that the project development process may proceed as planned. One of the most recent example of the nature of uncertainties in this area was the recent (summer, 2010) case referenced above: Qikiqtani Inuit Association v. Canada. The case found that seismic testing that had been thought to have obtained all necessary approvals, could not proceed as the proponent (the government of Canada) had not adequately consulted with the Inuit of the region or accommodated their interests. The case is but one example of such a situation that can cause significant trouble for proponents. This paper will further assess and describe the Qikiqtani case , and discuss additional similar situations where apparently approved undertakings were unexpectedly, but similarly, delayed.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".