Who cares about climate change? The mass media and socio-political acceptance of Canada’s oil sands and Northern Gateway Pipeline
| Autor: | Jonn Axsen, Nichole Dusyk, Kia Dullemond |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 020209 energy Environmental resource management Public debate Energy Engineering and Power Technology Climate change 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Newspaper Politics Fuel Technology Framing (social sciences) Geography Nuclear Energy and Engineering 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Carbon footprint Oil sands business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Mass media |
| Zdroj: | Energy Research & Social Science. 37:12-21 |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.erss.2017.07.005 |
| Popis: | Canada’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline would carry unrefined bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to the coast of British Columbia for international export. Socio-political acceptance or opposition can determine the fate of such projects, and media coverage offers insight into public discourse, including how the project is framed. We analyzed print media coverage of the project in six Canadian newspapers, including 2097 articles published from 2008 to 2014. The objectives were threefold: 1) to characterize media framing of the project using a risk/benefit framework; 2) to identify regional differences in framing between the two affected provinces; and 3) to investigate the framing of environmental risk. Our findings demonstrate that public debate is dominated by environmental risk of the project with a tendency to frame the project as a trade-off between economic benefit and environment risk. Despite a strongly regional distribution of risks and benefits, we did not find substantial differences in framing between newspapers in the two affected provinces. Finally we found that the environmental risk frame was presented predominately according to potential local impacts due to pipeline or tanker rupture. The global impacts of climate change were rarely mentioned despite the large carbon footprint of the Alberta oil sands. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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