Offshore petroleum resource access and regulation in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Extract: Canada is one of the worldâs leading petroleum producers. It claims significant proven reserves of oil and natural gas. Canadaâs reserves are estimated to be in the order of 173 billion barrels of oil and 70 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Canadaâs provinces, listed in order of entry into confederation, are Ontario (1867), Quebec (1867), Nova Scotia (1867), New Brunswick (1867), Manitoba (1870), British Columbia (1871), Prince Edward Island (1873), Saskatchewan (1905), Alberta (1905) and Newfoundland and Labrador (1949). Its territories are the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut. Canada has an extensive coastline, and lays claim to significant offshore resources. Petroleum resources can be found off the west coast and off the north coast (including in the Arctic). However, most of Canadaâs offshore development and production is occurring off the east coast, in the Atlantic. The area off the coast of British Columbia (Canadaâs west coast) is subject to a policy-based moratorium on oil and gas activities. Consequently, there are no current petroleum operations in this area. For the most part, the resources located in Canadaâs north and in the offshore areas (except those within the stated jurisdiction of separate arrangements between governments) are within the jurisdiction of the federal government. However, responsibility for onshore oil and gas (and other resources) located in Yukon and the Northwest Territories has been devolved to the relevant territory. At this stage, the offshore resources in these areas remain under the control of the federal government.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".