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The factors affecting social acceptance of renewable energy and transmission projects (May 2022)

18 May 2022

One solution to climate change is to transform the electricity system to non-polluting sources and to use electricity to power more of our daily lives. [...] We see how floods, heatwaves, and transmission go, the size of projects, and forest fires harm the health and safety of and have a chance to partner and profit from Canadians. [...] The remainder of the report describes the focus group M inimize debates about numbers or the process and results and then survey process and number of years left to avoid 1.5 degrees results. [...] To build the social support needed to modernize Reactions to the narrative arguments by focus Canada’s electricity system, we must ensure citizens and communities can contribute to group participants suggest three frames covering decisions about project location, the size of social/collective and personal/consumer frames to projects, and have a chance to partner and profit use discretely or as com. [...] Each narrative treated climate change differently, with the To test the influence of the narratives, the self-referencing narrative saying little and the collective 1,800-person sample was divided into three equal narrative highlighting the cause and effects and need groups: a control group and two test groups, with for action.
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