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Public opinion and energy politics in the Saskatchewan and North Dakota
The Extractive Industries and Society ( IF 3.808 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 , DOI: 10.1016/j.exis.2021.02.010
Randy Besco , Andrea Olive , Emily Eaton

The acceleration of climate change necessitates an energy transition in Canada and the United States – one that runs directly counter to the recent explosion of fossil fuel extraction through fracking technology. Is there public support for transition? What are the key predictors? This paper examines public opinion in two neighboring jurisdictions that experienced a hydraulic fracturing boom: Saskatchewan and North Dakota. Survey data is used to describe and compare opinions on fracking, clean energy, and energy transition. We find that compared to people in Saskatchewan, North Dakotans actually see less of a conflict between clean energy and fracking: they are more supportive of both. We examine predictors suggested by previous research, but aim to more carefully separate economic ideology, partisanship, and economic ties to industry. Economic ideology functions as expected, in essentially the same way across jurisdictions. Partisanship is clearly correlated to attitudes towards energy policy in North Dakota, but the relationship is asymmetric by party and issue. The same asymmetry is not true in Saskatchewan. In North Dakota, there is substantial public support for more investment in clean energy, but much less support for energy transition, while in Saskatchewan, the issue is not politicized.



中文翻译:

萨斯喀彻温省和北达科他州的舆论和能源政治

气候变化的加速需要在加拿大和美国进行能源转型,这与最近通过压裂技术提取化石燃料的爆炸行为直接背道而驰。是否有公众支持过渡?主要预测因素是什么?本文考察了萨斯喀彻温省和北达科他州两个经历水力压裂热潮的邻近辖区的民意。调查数据用于描述和比较有关压裂,清洁能源和能源转换的观点。我们发现,与萨斯喀彻温省的人们相比,北达科他州实际上很少看到清洁能源与水力压裂之间的冲突:他们更支持这两者。我们研究了先前研究提出的预测指标,但目的是更仔细地将经济意识形态,党派关系以及与产业的经济联系分开。经济意识形态在各个辖区的功能基本与预期相同。党派关系显然与北达科他州对能源政策的态度有关,但是这种关系在政党和议题之间是不对称的。同样的不对称性在萨斯喀彻温省是不正确的。在北达科他州,有大量的公众支持以增加对清洁能源的投资,但对能源转型的支持却少得多,而在萨斯喀彻温省,这个问题并未被政治化。

更新日期:2021-04-24
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