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Canada as an Emerging Energy Super-Producer

2013· article· en· W2250094346 on OpenAlex
Gerry Angevine, Kenneth P. Green

Why this work is in the frame

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicNatural Resources and Economic Development
Canadian institutionsFraser Institute
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSuperpowerEnergy policyEconomicsBusinessEnergy securityProduction (economics)Resource (disambiguation)International tradeNatural resource economicsRenewable energyChinaPolitical scienceEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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'Canada as An Emerging Energy Super-Producer' explores the meaning of the term “energy superpower” and whether Canada could become an energy superpower or a super-producer of energy. It also examines how Canada’s energy resources, production, and net exports rank from a global perspective and provides an overview of the economic benefits flowing from energy resource production, including the royalty payments that flow to governments, and inter-provincial energy trade.Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has frequently referred to Canada becoming an “energy superpower” — a term usually reserved for countries that are in a position to leverage their market power with respect to energy exports and are willing to exercise opportunities to do so. Canada is not about to become or striving to be an energy superpower but yet is clearly on the verge of becoming a super-producer of energy. Because Canada is energy self-sufficient most of the increase in oil, gas, uranium and hydroelectric production will be exported. Consequently, Canada is bound to soon be one of the world’s largest exporters of energy commodities.Increased energy resource development, production and inter-provincial trade will bring substantial economic benefits. The energy resource sector is already a large employer and contributor to Canada’s GDP. But the construction and operation of expanded and new energy commodity production and transportation facilities will bring tremendous additional economic benefits in terms of employment, labour income and economic growth. This will raise household incomes and provide individuals and families with improved living standards.Another benefit of becoming a super-producer of energy will be increased government revenues from production royalties and fees. Canada’s energy resource producers already contribute at least $19 billion to governments each year in the form of royalties, lease payments and fees. Going forward, these payments can be expected to increase as petroleum and uranium production increase and new hydro facilities are built. Growth in oil sands bitumen production alone could contribute as much as $50 billion per year to the Alberta government by 2033 compared with $4.5 billion in 2011.The study concludes that further growth in energy production would be of net benefit for Canadians as long as the risks associated with becoming an energy superproducer and net energy exporter are managed to avoid or minimize any negative impacts that energy sector growth could have on other areas of the economy.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.426
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.185
Teacher spread0.175 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it