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Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development in Ontario: A look at the Current Policy Frameworks and Discourses Surrounding Sustainable Energy and Wind and Solar Power in Major Ontario Newspapers

2010· article· en· 5 citations· W339935060 on OpenAlex· 10.15173/mjc.v5i0.239

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian venueIt was published in a Canadian venue.
About CanadaIts subject is Canada, wherever its authors sit.

No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame — the usual design — would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

The three-model screen

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All three models called this out of scope.

stratum: venue_new · design weight: 2684.25 (the sample is stratified; any rate computed without the weight is wrong)
Claude Opus 4.8OUT
genre: empirical
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Analysis of Ontario renewable energy policy frameworks and their treatment in major newspapers; the object is energy policy and media discourse.

GPT-5.6 (high)OUT
genre: conceptual
about Canada: no
confidence: high

The article analyzes Ontario energy policy and newspaper discourse, not research practice.

Grok 4.5OUT
genre: policy
about Canada: no
confidence: high

Ontario sustainable energy policy analysis; energy policy, not research policy or systems.

Abstract

Over thirty years ago we celebrated the first Earth Day, which has since marked the preservation and restoration of the environment. Ironi-cally, since this re-dedication to environmentalism and renewed spirit in learning from the past we have worked to increase carbon emissions, oil consumption, natural gas, and coal extraction. Our “ecological footprint” has nearly tripled as a result of the growth of the global motor vehicle population, human carbon emissions and, of course, greenhouse gases and their partner global warming. The problem is not going to go away, and finding Canada’s place within the policy paradigm of sustainable development and environmental awareness will not be easy. Juxtaposed against a divided federalist state, environmental policy falls under the jurisdiction of the provincial government in this country, making it in-creasingly hard to adopt a policy framework that not only works, but works consistently across this country’s political, social and economic landscapes.

Stored with the screening record, where it is evidence for the labels above.

The record

Venue
The McMaster Journal of Communication
Topic
Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
Funders
Keywords
Renewable energyNewspaperSustainable developmentSustainable energyWind powerSolar powerPower (physics)Energy policySolar energyPolitical scienceEnergy (signal processing)Current (fluid)Environmental economicsBusinessEngineeringAdvertisingEconomicsElectrical engineeringPhysics
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes