Course:POLI3802012/Survey/Environment
Topic: == Environment / Climate Change / Pipelines / Tar Sands ==
Reminder: Write properly structured questions, including simple text for response options. Use the discussion tab above for discussion of advantages and disadvantages of particular questions and their wording.
Contributors: 1. Tim Huebsch 2. Julia Malmo 3. Xueting_Feng (Yolanda) 4. (Hume) James Young 5. 6. Charles Katebi 7. Dorothy Yang (Xue Ting) 8.Da Tang 9.Bo Fan Chen 10.
QUESTIONS
Hi Everybody, Keep trying to work on questions to keep them short, sweet and readable, as if you are going to read them over the phone to someone who has not been thinking a lot about these topics. We don't know if we're going to do that for sure, but it will probably help anyway.
HumeJamesYoung 16:52, 18 February 2012 (PST)::::
(Feb 16/17 update) At this stage, we can move towards putting our top 5 questions first on this "Course" page, and then putting the others below them as alternates. PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THE ORIGINAL QUESTION NUMBERS BECAUSE THEY STILL REFER TO THE QUESTION NUMBERS LISTED UNDER THE DISCUSSION TAB AND THREADS....So the goal is just to count out five questions; it does not matter if they are listed as Question 4 followed by Question 2 followed by Question 8.
Of course, we can all still edit these questions to improve them, and move them around between the top five questions and the alternates, as seems right.
Please keep on using the discussion threads to work on the wording of the individual questions, etc.
TOP FIVE QUESTIONS
Question 2: Attitudes to increased Oil Sands Production? (Tim Huebsch)
By 2020, production from the Alberta Oil Sands is expected to double.
Some people say the oil sands make Canada wealthy and are good for the economy.
Others say the oil sands are an environmental disaster, because of their greenhouse gas emissions and toxic by-products.
Which of the following best represents your opinion towards the ongoing expansion of the Alberta Oil Sands?
1. Strongly support 2. Support 3. Oppose 4. Strongly Oppose 5. Don't know
Question 7: Attitudes to Northern and Southern Gateway Projects?
The Northern Gateway project plans to use pipelines and ocean-going oil tankers to export oil through the city of Kitimat on BC's north coast. The southern Gateway project plans to increase oil exports through the port of Vancouver.
Some people argue that these oil exports help the economy; other argue that they pose major threats to the environment, including the risk of major oil spills on land and water.
Given this debate, what is your opinion on these oil exports?
1. strongly support them 2. support them 3. oppose them 4. strongly oppose them 5. don't know
adapted from question originally proposed by JuliaMalmo-Laycock 22:46, 13 February 2012 (PST)
Question 6: Attitudes to governments' overall role in protecting the environment?
State how strongly you agree or disagree with the following statement:
Government should protect the natural environment, for the benefit of society, the economy and future generations.
1. Strongly agree 2. Agree 3. Disagree 4. Strongly Disagree 5. Don't know
- HumeJamesYoung revised Feb 16
Question 1: Attitudes to urgency of reducing Canada's greenhouse gas emissions?
3. Xueting_Feng (Yolanda):
On the issues of greenhouse gas emission and climate change, some countries, like Germany and Denmark, have worked hard to reduce them, by promoting higher fuel efficiency and developing renewable energy sources like wind power. Other countries, like the U.S., China and Canada, continue to have rising greenhouse gas emissions.
In your opinion, how quickly should the Government of Canada act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
1.Within the next 5 years 2.Within the next 10 years 3.Within the next 20 years 4.Within the next 50 years 5.Unimportant--we don't really need to do this
Question 11. What does the survey respondent do with toxic burned out compact fluorescent light bulbs?
In recent years, governments have strongly promoted a new kind of light bulb, the compact fluorescent light bulb, because they are energy efficient. These bulbs, however, contain a small amount of the toxic element mercury, and are best recycled by taking the bulbs back to stores which sell them.
Which of the following statements, best describes what you do with compact fluorescent light bulbs after they have burned out?
a. I throw them in the garbage, like we always did with the older style incandescent light bulbs. b. I try to recycle them by putting them in the city's blue box recycling program. c. I return them to a store which sells and recycles them safely. d. I don't use compact fluorescent light bulbs. e. I don't remember. (Or Won't say).
Alternate questions
Question 3. Attitudes to oil exports from port of Vancouver?
As of Feb 16, this question on oil exports from the port of Vancouver has now been deleted and combined with Question 7: 2 for the price of 1!!! see the discussion thread on questions 3 and 7....
The original question was:
(Hume James Young)Oil sands producers plan to use increasing numbers of tanker ships to export oil through the Port of Vancouver destined for markets in the US and Asia. The oil companies argue that this helps the economy, while environmentalists argue that oil spills are likely.
Which of the following best describes your attitude to the plans to increase oil tanker traffic through the waters near Vancouver?
1. Strongly support 2. Support 3. Neutral: neither support nor oppose 4. Opposed 5. Strongly opposed
Question 4. Willingness to pay for reducing carbon emissions?
Hi Question 4 contributor....you should probably sign your question, for the rest of us, but probably also for marking and credit. You can just use regular text, but Professor Cutler seems to be telling us to use the UBC wiki syntax of using three or four tildes that funny character over Spanish ns, at the top left of the keyboard.
How willing would you be to pay higher energy costs in the interest of reducing Canada's carbon emissions?
a. Very Willing b. fairly willing c. Neutral d. not willing e. Strongly Opposed
Question 5. Does the respondent take care of the environment personally?
How strongly do you agree or disagree with the following statement. "The environment is important to me, and I do my best to take care of it."
A. strongly agree B. agree C. neutral D. disagree E. strongly disagree
- HumeJamesYoung 20:50, 11 February 2012 (PST)changed question wording on Feb. 14.
Question 8. Government's role in creating sustainable, more environmentally-friendly products?
Do you think the government needs to enforce more strict guidelines for corporations in terms of pollution and sustainability of products?
A) yes B) no c) not sure
- Dorothy Xue Ting Yang
Question 9. Effect of increased transit prices on driving/transit habits?
With the recent proposed increase of transit prices in BC again, does this decrease your willingness to take transit as opposed to driving?
a) yes, and i take transit less now b) yes, but i still take transit the same c) no, because i have no choice d) no, i find the prices to be fair e) i take part in a u-pass or some sort of cheaper transit pass system already (these answers will be excluded as this question aims to measure effects of price increases on regular transit users)
- Dorothy Xue Ting yang (3pm Feb 14)
Question 10. What is the best policy for Canada on nuclear power, taking into consideration the Fukushima accident?
Last year, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan severely damaged the nuclear power plant at Fukushima, causing the release of radioactive particles. As a result, some European countries decided to phase out their nuclear power programs, while others have decided to continue them.
Given this incident, what do you think is the best policy for Canada?
1. Phase out all nuclear power plants, within the ten years or so. 2. Phase out all existing nuclear power plants, as they come to the end of their natural lives, but don't build any new ones. 3. Build nuclear power plants when they seem like a good option. 4. Don't know
HumeJamesYoung17:11, 18 February 2012