Local Social Disruption and Western Energy Development: A Critical Review

Local flexibility in spending mitigation monies: a case study of successful social impact mitigation of the Intermountain Power Project in Delta, Utah

“…In agreement with the literature of the day (see, for example, Freudenburg, 1982;Cortese and Jones, 1977;Wilkinson et al, 1982;Little, 1977;Gilmore and Duff, 1975), and in an attempt to avoid social disruptions associated with boomtowns (England and Albrecht, 1984), IPP officials spent approximately US$45 million on improving the community's roads, sewers, schools, county and city administration buildings, fire and police stations, and city parks and recreation areas prior to the arrival of new construction workers.…”

Anomie in the Oil Patch: A Preliminary Analysis

“…The rapid social changes that has accompanied the swift expansion of the oil extraction industry appear to have placed a major burden on pre-existing regulatory mechanisms and rendered them unable to regulate the community in the same manner they did prior to 2007. The increase in rates of violent crime and suicide were observed to be substantial; however, these numbers must be interpreted with care considering the small base numbers pre-boom (Freudenburg, 1980;Wilkinson et al, 1982). While this caution was exercised, as suggested by Freudenburg (1980), inferences can be made from "general patterns of findings" (p. 4-5) within the Bakken region regardless of rate change.…”

“…Finally, rates of oil production for the Bakken Region were secured from the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources website with the peak daily oil production by month for each year utilized in the analysis. changing crime and suicide rates, multiple authors (Freudenburg 2002;Wilkinson et al 1982) urge caution with the use of such quantitative data due to small base numbers in many pre-boom communities. While rates and rate changes are used for the purposes of this study, trends in rates of violent crime and suicide are given equal magnitude and attention.…”

“…Much of this research was considered to be "anti-growth" (Wilkinson, Thompson, Reynolds, Ostresh 1982) and dismissive of economic benefits; however, this work may be better labeled anti-boom as evidenced by Freudenburg (1979) who noted "there is nothing inherently evil about growth, provided it is a reasonable level of growth" (p. 56). Other authors of this time period echo these beliefs as well, calling for construction and expansion phases to be stretched out over a longer period of time to prevent rapid expansion for which these small communities were unprepared (Little 1976).…”

Ciudades en auge en Chile: Rol de la actividad exportadora en la dinámica del empleo urbano

“…Este término fue usado para referirse al traslado de los trabajadores en avión en las plataformas petrolíferas del golfo de México y los estudios de las actividades extractivas en Canadá y Australia, a modo de alternativa a la construcción de campamentos próximos a los yacimientos en explotación (Bell & Brown, 2006;Storey, 2001). Entre las características del fly in-fly out se encuentran los sistemas de trabajo concentrados por turnos, en los que el trabajador permanece en el lugar de trabajo durante un número de días consecutivos (Jamett & Paredes, 2013), una práctica con importantes impactos sociales: se ha argumentado sobre problemas sociales derivados del recambio en las ciudades como producto de la movilidad de la fuerza laboral, y su impacto a nivel local en pequeñas localidades o boom towns, cuando estas viven una fase de auge o crisis económica (Park & Stokowski, 2009;Wilkinson, Reynolds, Thompson & Ostresh, 1982). Se plantea que en estas comunidades se desarrollan perturbaciones sociales que podrían llevar a una ruptura de las estructuras sociales existentes, materializada en una clara diferenciación entre los recién llegados y los habitantes permanentes de la comunidad.…”