The relationship between host government contracts for oil and gas activities and public participation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This chapter analyzes how certain Arctic states engage with public participation in the negotiation and implementation of host government contracts within the oil and gas industry. It provides an overview of public participation in general and analyses in detail the special conditions and challenges of operations in the Arctic. The extensive extraction of hydrocarbons has caused a significant decrease in conventional reserves within easily accessible areas. The chapter also analyses public participation in host state contracts in two Arctic countries, namely Norway and Canada. Both countries possess a developed petroleum regime and have expressed active interest in exploring the resources of the Arctic; they also have extensive legal provisions regarding public participation. The environmental groups sued the government but the district court of Oslo dismissed the case in early 2018. The analysis of host government contracts of Norway and Canada within the oil and gas sector demonstrates various main points.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.012 | 0.033 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
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.
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".