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Record W2900328232 · doi:10.29173/psur14

Extractivism: The Harper Government’s Energy and Environment Policy

2016· article· en· W2900328232 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Trevor McPherson

Bibliographic record

VenuePolitical Science Undergraduate Review · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAmerican Environmental and Regional History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGovernment (linguistics)LegislationResource (disambiguation)RationalityIdeologyConstruct (python library)EconomicsPublic administrationPolitical economyPolitical sciencePoliticsLaw

Abstract

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This work focuses on the Harper government’s energy and environmental policy. Specifically, how environmental policy was designed primarily with the goal of facilitating their energy policy objective of maximizing resource extraction. I outline the evolution of the Harper government’s environmental policy throughout their tenure, which includes the use of ineffective and deceptively communicated legislation designed to give the impression of action, and the systematic dismantling of environmental regulation. Also, I explain the Harper government’s relationship with the resource extraction industry. Industry was given exceptional access to government, as they had substantial influence over policy and collaborated on communications strategy. The government also marginalized science, scientists, and environmentalists through defunding, muzzling, destruction of scientific records, and more. Finally, I examine the ideological underpinnings that inform these relationships and the rationality they construct. I will demonstrate that the Harper government’s neoliberal populist orientation characterized their dichotomous conception of economy and environment, and therefore their environmental and energy policies, and their relationship with perceived allies and adversaries. Ultimately, the Harper government’s efforts to maximize resource extraction through dismantling environmental regulation not only failed, but also obstructed their goal.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.938
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.013
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.234
Teacher spread0.222 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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