Local voices on renewable energy projects: the performative role of the regulatory process for major offshore infrastructure in England and Wales

Rydin, Yvonne; Natarajan, Lucy; Lee, Maria; Lock, Simon J.

doi:10.1080/13549839.2018.1449821

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“…The rest of the ESRC-funded study data that was not used in this article has been reported on in other publications (Lee, 2017;Natarajan et al, 2018Natarajan et al, , 2019Rydin et al, 2018bRydin et al, , 2017Rydin et al, , 2018cLee et al, 2018;Rydin et al, 2018a). The findings indicated strong dissatisfaction amongst the public, including concerns over the representation of different interests (Rydin et al, 2018b(Rydin et al, , 2018c and acknowledgement of spatial distribution impacts (Natarajan et al, 2019), which supports the present line of enquiry.…”

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“…Interactions happen mainly through the exchange of documents and written questioning but also through oral representations at hearings. Previous work has shown that Statements of Common Ground between parties and in-person representations at hearings are particularly important (Rydin et al, 2018b). At the regional tier, Welsh policy had importance for energy infrastructure during the study period, as discussed above.…”

Section: The Nsips Regime Wind Energy In Walesmentioning

confidence: 81%

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Major Wind Energy & the Interface of Policy and Regulation: A Study of Welsh NSIPs

Natarajan¹

2018

Planning Practice & Research

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This article examines how sub-national policy is applied in consenting decisions for major wind energy infrastructure. The study focuses on the Welsh tier of governance and the perspective of the public, building on existing work on 'territorial politics' and public participation. It looks explicitly at the regulatory stage of decision-making, which is critical to understanding multi-level governance contexts for energy infrastructure. Two cases of 'Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects' (NSIPs) in the UK are assessed and findings show how conflict is fuelled by the ways in which different tiers of policy and regulation interact.

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confidence: 76%

Section: The Nsips Regime Wind Energy In Walesmentioning

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Major Wind Energy & the Interface of Policy and Regulation: A Study of Welsh NSIPs

Natarajan¹

2018

Planning Practice & Research

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“…178 Taking part in the intense six-month process of constantly evolving evidence that constitutes an Examination is onerous. 179 Alongside these practical and epistemic challenges, the difficulty of unearthing and challenging assumptions embedded in the output is a perennial barrier to inclusive processes around technical methods. Some assumptions in our cases are very`visible', including, for example, the Rampion ARs.…”

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Techniques of Knowing in Administration: Co‐production, Models, and Conservation Law

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Law frequently demands the production, sometimes effortful, of adequate knowledge for decision making. This article explores the challenging epistemic demands made by nature conservation law during planning law approval processes for major offshore wind farms. It explores this area through the prism of co-production: not only arè science' and`facts' socially and legally constructed, but in addition, scientific and factual findings shape society, and law and governance. Models are used in planning law to assess whether bird deaths associated with a proposed wind farm will have an adverse effect on the integrity of a protected site. As much as providing an accurate factual representation of the impact of a wind farm on biodiversity, the models contribute to the very possibility of governing the impact of these novel infrastructure developments on biodiversity.

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“…Actors and their voices are performatively constructed within the operation of the regulatory process, and this has implications as categories of actors are created and assumed identities associated with these categories. The research on the NSIPs regime suggested that local actors are constructed as quite distinctive categories of local voices (Rydin et al, 2018b). The voice of local residents is framed as highly individualised and based on proximity to the project.…”

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Silences, categories and black-boxes: Towards an analytics of the relations of power in planning regulation

Rydin

2019

Planning Theory

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Regulation is often considered as an arena of conflicts, where power is exercised by the state or developers. This article looks beyond this to consider how power operates in a distributed way through the relationships of the regulatory process. It develops a theoretical framing drawing on Foucauldian and Actor–Network Theory perspectives that emphasises the securing of consent, performativity and the interrelation of knowledge and power . Using research into the regulation of major renewable energy infrastructure, it develops an analytics of power looking at silences, categorisation and black-boxing. This shows how power is operationalised through regulatory practice, so that local communities’ concerns are only partially heard, differential attention is paid to project impacts and knowledge claims are selectively warranted as an evidence-base.

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Local voices on renewable energy projects: the performative role of the regulatory process for major offshore infrastructure in England and Wales

Cited by 18 publications

References 58 publications

Major Wind Energy & the Interface of Policy and Regulation: A Study of Welsh NSIPs

Major Wind Energy & the Interface of Policy and Regulation: A Study of Welsh NSIPs

Techniques of Knowing in Administration: Co‐production, Models, and Conservation Law

Silences, categories and black-boxes: Towards an analytics of the relations of power in planning regulation

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