Explaining Variation in Oil Sands Pipeline Projects

Janzwood, Amy

doi:10.1017/s0008423920000190

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“…Thirdly, common characteristics of many studies are focusing on the influence of specific actors, thereby only providing a partial view of events: in this respect, unions (Fair 2014); political parties (Gravelle and Lachapelle 2015); opposition groups (Avery 2013;Bradshaw 2015); media actors (Kojola 2015); environmental impacts (Erickson and Lazarus 2014); grassroots activism against fossil fuels (Ternes, Ordner, and Cooper 2020); variation in oil sands pipeline project outcomes (Janzwood 2020). In contrast, interactions between these groups as a factor in KXL political decision-making should be studied.…”

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confidence: 99%

Explaining Contentious Energy Policy

Altiparmak¹

2022

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The Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline is one of the most polarised examples of contemporary American energy politics. The pipeline policy process has not been stable, so it should be analysed over time via a holistic, historical view of interacting dimensions. Robert Cox’s theoretical notions of the “materials–ideas–institutions” balance are drawn upon to understand how actors’ motivations behind policy development were re-shaped through temporal processes over nearly two decades. A critical feature identified is how such interacting dimensions became significant according to specific US presidential administrations: each, in turn, shifting the direction of decision-making around KXL. The article’s originality lies in operationalising the theory to give an alternative, dynamic explanation for policy motivations around the KXL while also establishing a novel theoretical lens to generally view such policy development.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining Contentious Energy Policy

Altiparmak¹

2022

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“…The proposed Trans-Mountain Expansion (TMX) will, once completed, more than double the throughput capacity on the system. However, TMX has faced significant delays caused by a confluence of "... legal risk and social mobilization and a major regulatory barrier" (Janzwood, 2020).…”

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Pipes, Trains and Automobiles: Explaining British Columbia’s High Wholesale Gasoline Prices

Fellows¹

2022

The Energy Journal

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I modify a cournot oligopoly model to examine the effect of pipeline capacity constraints on regional wholesale gasoline prices. The model includes a discontinuous supply function for a common input (transportation) with a constrained low-cost mode (pipelines) and an unconstrained higher cost mode (rail, truck or barge). The equilibrium outcome demonstrates a piecewise linear relationship between the low-cost capacity constraint and the equilibrium price. The shape of the transportation supply curve is also shown to affect the relationship between firm average marginal costs and the equilibrium price. I also present a test of the model's implications, demonstrating that it is able to explain a recent pronounced increase in wholesale gasoline prices for cities in British Columbia Canada. While the exercise is motivated by a specific market, the model and its implications apply to a broad set of discussions on inter-regional arbitrage in the context of imperfect competition.

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