Focus group analysis of the factors affecting social acceptance of renewable energy and transmission projects

In addition to the discussion of community influence and community benefits, focus group participants reacted to set of rough arguments to explore potential renewable energy and transmission narratives. [...] To build the social support needed to modernize Canada’s electricity system, we must ensure citizens and communities can contribute to decisions about project location, the size of projects, and have a chance to partner and profit from renewing our electricity system. [...] Note that the reference to the federal clean electricity standard in the first narrative only applies where the goal is to defend or promote the clean electricity standard. [...] 20 minutes the other way down the highway, there's two coal mines in Spar, Wood and Elford and all that kind of thing there, right? And we're sort of right in the middle of we had a there was a coal mine that was going to go ahead here. [...] Long-term payoff o Atlantic Mixed: Lower energy costs eventually? I think that in the short term, it would lead to higher energy costs for people because of the cost of building and implementing the systems, but in the long term, I believe the cost for the general public would come down.