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The grand challenge : mobilizing to address the climate crisis -- The oil sands policy regime : resource, markets, politics -- The oil sands policy regime : ideas, institutions, and environmental policies -- Keystone XL and the rise of the anti-pipeline movement -- The Northern Gateway Pipeline : the continental divide in energy politics -- Trans Mountain expansion project : the politics of structure -- After careful review of changed circumstances : the demise of Energy East / co-authored with Xavier Deschênes-Philion -- The impact of pipeline resistance -- Site C Dam and the political barriers to renewable energy -- How resistance to renewable energy infrastructure might frustrate climate solutions -- Overcoming place-based resistance to renewable energy infrastructure.

The grand challenge : mobilizing to address the climate crisis -- The oil sands policy regime : resource, markets, politics -- The oil sands policy regime : ideas, institutions, and environmental policies -- Keystone XL and the rise of the anti-pipeline movement -- The Northern Gateway Pipeline : the continental divide in energy politics -- Trans Mountain expansion project : the politics of structure -- After careful review of changed circumstances : the demise of Energy East / co-authored with Xavier Deschênes-Philion -- The impact of pipeline resistance -- Site C Dam and the political barriers to renewable energy -- How resistance to renewable energy infrastructure might frustrate climate solutions -- Overcoming place-based resistance to renewable energy infrastructure.

Market access for Canada's oil sands has been increasingly contested as proposals for new pipelines have become so controversial. This article develops a framework for political risk analysis and applies it to five pipeline proposals. The political risk to major infrastructure projects is a function of the number of institutional veto points; whether opposition groups have access to veto points; whether the project can take advantage of existing infrastructure; the salience of concentrated environmental risks; and the jurisdictional separation of risks and benefits. Each of the projects faces formidable political risks, but the risks vary in type and magnitude by project.

Ken Lertzman, Jeremy Rayner and Jeremy Wilson provide an idea-based approach to explaining changes in British Columbia's forest policy by applying the concept of learning developed by Paul Sabatier as part of his "advocacy coalition framework." This effort to highlight the importance of ideas and learning is a welcome development in Canadian policy studies. But a word of caution is in order as well, because the article has some indications of slipping into a disconcerting pattern in the development of our discipline. For periods of time we seem to single out one significant variable and pay an inordinate amount of attention to it, the most striking examples being interest groups in the 1950s and 1960s and institutions in the 1980s. As we seize upon the new variable, we discredit the previous generation of scholars who we claim (sometimes misleadingly) ignored it.

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the American influence on Canadian environmental regulation in order to show the international sources of domestic public policy, especially the manner in which Canadian policy development is influenced by the United States, and the specific dynamics of Canadian regulatory policy. The United States influences Canadian domestic public policy by the export of costs and the export of knowledge. An analysis of major developments in the areas of air pollution, water pollution, pesticides, toxic substance regulation, and environmental impact assessment demonstrates that American influence over Canadian environmental regulation is pervasive. The most frequent pattern is emulation, where value convergence combined with U.S. leadership leads to Canadian borrowing of U.S. policy innovations. This process can be either elite-driven or activist-driven, the latter being characterized by an enlarged scope of conflict, media exposure, and pressure campaigns on policymakers.