Moving from misinformation derived from public attitude surveys on carbon dioxide capture and storage towards realistic stakeholder involvement

Towards a cross-paradigmatic framework of the social acceptance of energy systems

“…Either way, individuals may have a low level of awareness and/or knowledge of the technology on which they are asked to comment and their attitude or opinion is liable to change as they learn more. It is this high instability and responsiveness to contextual change that has led researchers to use the terms "pseudo opinions" and "non-attitudes" [78][99] [100].…”

Public evaluation of electricity technologies and future low-carbon portfolios in Germany and the USA

“…Literature shows that the level of knowledge on electricity technologies is at best modest with people having a low level of information and knowledge about new energy technologies and who are unable to discriminately rank them [8,28]. A striking example is the carbon capture and storage technology where people have, on average, a low level of knowledge [29][30][31][32][33]. As a result, people tend to have 'pseudo-opinions' or non-attitudes with a low level of stability over time.…”

Stakeholder and public perceptions of CO 2 -EOR in the context of CCS – Results from UK focus groups and implications for policy

“…Nonetheless, we believe the broad range of themes 591 raised by participants -from specific policy and finance matters to social justice through to ethical and 592 moral contestations -justifies a research design that allows participants to raise issues they themselves 593 deem to be of importance and understand the issue at hand on their own terms. This is especially true 594 when awareness of the more technical aspects of CCS may be low (see Malone et al, 2010) and hence 595 it may be important not to 'close down' discussion or pre-empt what participants consider significant. 596…”