Aboriginal engagement and agreement-making with a rapidly developing resource industry: Coal seam gas development in Australia

Trigger, David; Keenan, Julia; Rijke, Kim de; Rifkin, Will

doi:10.1016/j.exis.2014.08.001

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“…A further avenue for community engagement is community development [107], defined by the United Nations [122] as the process through which 'community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems', aided, in this case, by mining companies and/or other developments partners. Through their partnerships with local community organisations, other non-government organisations, and government agencies, extractive companies may provide funding for much-needed local 10 Critics of CSR often equate the concept with 'greenwashing'.…”

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Energy for whom? Uranium mining, Indigenous people, and navigating risk and rights in Australia

Graetz

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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Section: Corporate Social Responsibilitymentioning

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Energy for whom? Uranium mining, Indigenous people, and navigating risk and rights in Australia

Graetz

2015

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…They have addressed, for example, neoliberal politics and powers of persuasion (Hudgins & Poole, ; Mercer, de Rijke, & Dressler, ), and community organizing in response to fracking (Pearson, ; Rasch & Köhne, ; Simonelli, ). Others examined the diverse social and economic impacts of unconventional gas developments on local communities (de Rijke, ; Perry, ), the consequences of environmental change and place‐related identities (Willow, ), as well as debates about agricultural futures and Indigenous engagements with the gas industry (de Rijke, ; Trigger, Keenan, de Rijke, & Rifkin, ; see also Moore, von der Porten, & Castleden, on fracking and water governance on Indigenous land in Canada). Water largely features circumstantially in these studies and anthropologists are yet to publish accounts with fracking and water at the very center of their enquiry.…”

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Produced water, money water, living water: Anthropological perspectives on water and fracking

Rijke

2017

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Advances in hydraulic fracturing (aka “fracking”) technologies and horizontal drilling have enabled the extraction of previously unviable unconventional oil and gas resources. However, as global environmental concerns have become more prominent and unconventional oil and gas developments have moved ever closer to residential centers, public scrutiny of the industry and its methods and impacts of extraction have increased. Water impacts feature prominently among the contemporary societal concerns about fracking. These concerns include the large water requirements of the process itself, as well as concerns about the potential pollution of groundwater and the (underground) environment more broadly. Anthropologists have undertaken qualitative field research on unconventional gas developments in a variety of settings, largely among local communities in regions of extraction. The perspectives employed by anthropologists are commonly drawn from the broader social science literature, including the anthropology of water and natural resources, science and technology studies, studies of social movements, and studies which examine the energy‐society nexus. Based on the shortcomings of the published anthropological accounts, interdisciplinary research collaboration with hydrologists, engineers and economists, as well as a more fulsome engagement with the variety of hopes, fears and dreams of fracking and unconventional gas, is recommended. WIREs Water 2018, 5:e1272. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1272 This article is categorized under: Engineering Water > Sustainable Engineering of Water Science of Water > Water Quality Human Water > Methods

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“…In addition to negotiation dynamics (Liss, ), these agreements with CSG operators expose social and cultural issues in community relationships with CSG operators. The extent to which these are resolved in legally binding contracts is only beginning to be explored by researchers (Trigger et al ., ), presenting a knowledge vacuum in the literature for legal geographers.…”

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Unconventional Gas in Australia: Towards a Legal Geography

Turton

2015

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Recent commentary on future research directions for legal geography highlights the need for studies that are historically grounded and focused on humanenvironment interactions in rural settings. As a current, controversial land use in Australia, unconventional gas (UG) development provides an ideal lens through which researchers can investigate these themes. Utilising emerging international literature and current Australian examples, this paper surveys major trends in the Australian literature relating to UG, before exploring some of the ways in which Australian legal geographers might contribute constructively to community debates around this resource. Seeking to encourage further analysis, this paper contributes to this developing literature by focusing on two key areas: the various legal actors involved in UG development in Australia (including their regulatory choices, spatial interpretations, expertise, and influence) and the implications for legal geography where attempts are made to establish 'social licence' through contractual arrangements between industry and individual landholders. This article also delves into the place of Indigenous Australians in relation to UG extraction and the questions this resource raises about land use conflicts in Australia more generally -offering suggestions for comparative international studies and further critique at the domestic level.

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Aboriginal engagement and agreement-making with a rapidly developing resource industry: Coal seam gas development in Australia

Cited by 31 publications

References 12 publications

Energy for whom? Uranium mining, Indigenous people, and navigating risk and rights in Australia

Energy for whom? Uranium mining, Indigenous people, and navigating risk and rights in Australia

Produced water, money water, living water: Anthropological perspectives on water and fracking

Unconventional Gas in Australia: Towards a Legal Geography

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