“…Faced with such failures, some countries have started seeking community consultation and verbal commitment to voluntary participation. In practice, however, many of these countries have just focused on finding a relatively powerless community to site the geological repository, portraying the waste management project as a major investment that would bring large amounts of money, jobs, and taxes to local governments, and, if necessary, dealing with any opposition through some combination of undemocratic decision-making at local levels, bribery and force (Burrows-Taylor, 2017; Gosden, 2014; Hannis & Rawles, 2013;jas, 2011;Simpson, 2016). These pay only lip service to democratic and ethical principles.…”