Development of a regulatory framework for CDM-enabled offshore carbon capture and storage (OCCS) in China

Partain, Roy Andrew; Faure, Michael

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“…Yet offshore CCS may also give rise to new social issues relating to legislation and governance challenges given the complexity of marine planning (Milligan, 2014), or to increased concern over pipelines given the need for more extensive transportation networks to carry CO2 from onshore capture points to offshore storage sites (Ashworth et al, 2015). This interest in the social and political dimensions of offshore CO2 storage is important given the increasing interest in offshore storage sites for reasons of geological suitability and/or socio-political factors in areas like China (Partain and Faure, 2016), Brazil (Roman, 2011) and Norway plus the wider Nordic region (Haug and Stigson, 2017). This paper takes as its focus the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project in Hokkaido, northern Japan, which injects CO2 into the seabed off Tomakomai City.…”

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Challenges for social impact assessment in coastal regions: A case study of the Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project

Mabon

Kita

Xue³

2017

Marine Policy

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This paper assesses challenges for social impact assessment (SIA) for coastal and offshore infrastructure projects, using the case study of the Tomakomai Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Demonstration Project in Hokkaido, Japan. Interest in SIA and linked concepts such as social licence to operate is growing, yet marine environments also have potential to raise additional complexity in project governance. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Tomakomai and Japan more widely across the project development and implementation phase, the paper argues that building an understanding of the social, cultural and historical relationship between the community, industry and the sea is crucial to understanding the neutral or cautiously supportive response of the citizens and stakeholders in Tomakomai to the project. Moreover, effective SIA in coastal regions needs to find a way to account for-or at least make visible-these complex relations between society and the sea. Based on the findings, it is suggested that developers or policymakers overseeing SIA in coastal regions ought to pay extra attention to the extent to which developments like CCS are viewed by communities as 'new' as opposed to a continuation of existing activities in the sea; to the importance of engagement on monitoring during the project operations phase; and to the noneconomic values such as pride and identity which communities and stakeholders may derive from the sea. Keywords carbon dioxide capture and storage; coastal communities; social impact assessment; social licence to operate; Tomakomai CCS Demonstration Project. Highlights  Evaluate social dimensions of Japan's first large-scale CCS demonstration;  Refine extant social impact assessment principles with specific coastal focus;  Cultural and historical relationship with sea key to understanding community 2 response;  Coastal SIA needs to specifically accommodate community relations to sea;  Complexity in marine environments makes careful in-depth SIA even more important.

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