气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Social license to operate during Wyoming's coalbed methane boom: Implications of private participation

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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111217
	Social license to operate during Wyoming's coalbed methane boom: Implications of private participation
	Walsh K.B.; Haggerty J.H.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	138
英文摘要	Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) projects have emerged as fundamental, yet often controversial, components of contemporary energy systems. In contrast to the prevailing academic focus on sites of conflict, this paper explores why and how the social license to operate succeeds in UOG settings, or how private landowners accept or accommodate development. This paper applies the concept of social license to operate to landowner-industry relations during an episode of coalbed methane (CBM) development in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. Conclusions draw on forty semi-structured interviews with stakeholders, including industry personnel, oil and gas attorneys, and surface owners that hosted CBM development. The findings indicate that mutual respect, procedural fairness, and trust were necessary preconditions of social license. These three preconditions created an opening for surface owners to effectively engage in private participation and advocate for their instrumental priorities. However, the key priority of surface owners to retain energy infrastructure, instead of demanding reclamation, has contributed to the existing U.S. land-use phenomenon of energy sprawl. Therefore, reclamation policy should aim to secure positive personal outcomes for private surface owners while mitigating against the cumulative environmental impacts of energy production. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Coalbed methane; Industry relations; Private lands; Reclamation policy; Social license to operate
学科领域	Coal bed methane; Coal deposits; Environmental impact; Firedamp; Land reclamation; Land use; Reclamation; Energy productions; License to operate; Private land; Private landowners; Private participation; Procedural fairness; Semi structured interviews; Unconventional oil and gas; Methane; coalbed methane; environmental impact; land reclamation; landowner; participatory approach; private land; private sector; stakeholder; Powder Basin; United States; Wyoming; Clusia (angiosperm)
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Coal bed methane; Coal deposits; Environmental impact; Firedamp; Land reclamation; Land use; Reclamation; Energy productions; License to operate; Private land; Private landowners; Private participation; Procedural fairness; Semi structured interviews; Unconventional oil and gas; Methane; coalbed methane; environmental impact; land reclamation; landowner; participatory approach; private land; private sector; stakeholder; Powder Basin; United States; Wyoming; Clusia (angiosperm)
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118140
作者单位	Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, PO BOX 173480, Bozeman, MT, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Walsh K.B.,Haggerty J.H.. Social license to operate during Wyoming's coalbed methane boom: Implications of private participation[J],2020,138.
APA	Walsh K.B.,&Haggerty J.H..(2020).Social license to operate during Wyoming's coalbed methane boom: Implications of private participation.Energy Policy,138.
MLA	Walsh K.B.,et al."Social license to operate during Wyoming's coalbed methane boom: Implications of private participation".Energy Policy 138(2020).