Pride of ownership: Local views on community-owned wind energy development in M'Chigeeng First Nation, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper draws attention to Indigenous communities who have been understudied in the social acceptance and renewable energy transition literatures. As Canada's federal government endeavors to act towards reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous citizens, Indigenous communities are taking pioneering roles as owners in the renewable energy sector. In the province of Ontario, M'Chigeeng First Nation is one such pioneer in Ontario's wind energy space, operating as sole owner of two wind turbines since 2012. Our survey of 161 M'Chigeeng members, requested by the community, tests a range of hypotheses that emerged from earlier face-to-face interviews and dovetail with the social acceptance literature. A majority (60 %) of respondents have a positive attitude towards their turbines and while positivity is significantly correlated with most of the hypothesized predictors (e.g., community affinity, fair process, fair benefits, information sharing, pride, relationships (conflict), and reconciliation), the regressions show that positivity towards the turbines is most consistently predicted by positive emotions, pride, and the project representing a form of Indigenous-Settler reconciliation. That said, only 37 % of the sample agree that the project represents reconciliation. The implications of this exploratory case study are discussed in relation to community goals and the wider renewable energy transition.
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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 | 0.010 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".