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Record W3045927812 · doi:10.4337/9781786435491.00016

The Oldman Dam, Alberta, Canada

2020· book-chapter· en· W3045927812 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Itzchak E. Kornfeld

Bibliographic record

VenueEdward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2020
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGovernment (linguistics)Supreme courtIndigenousGeographySpring (device)Political scienceLawArchaeologyPublic administrationEngineering

Abstract

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The Oldman River Dam is located near the town of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Its construction pitted the indigenous First Nations Piikani peoples against the provincial government of Alberta, the national Minister of Public Works, Supply and Services, and the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Alberta’s government began to consider the dam in 1974 in order to aid the white settler farmers, irrigate their lands, and alleviate damage from uncontrolled floods during the spring and harsh droughts during the summer. The Piikanis believed that their concerns were to be heeded by the government. But they were not. Then, in the late 1980s, an environmental group, Friends of the Oldman River Society, sued Alberta, seeking to block the dam’s continued construction because no environmental impact review was conducted. At that point, the dam was almost completed. The case made its way to Canada’s Supreme Court, which converted the dispute from one over a dam to one over constitutional rights of governmental actions.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.299
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.284 · 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
GenreOther

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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