The spatial politics of energy conflicts: How competing constructions of scale shape pipeline and shale gas struggles in Canada

Hunsberger, Carol; Larsen, Rasmus Kløcker

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102100

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“…Moreover, USACE's scope-contraction excluded analysis of the health and economic impacts of particular concern to SRST, while expanding to consider costs to mainly white, urban communities and benefits to the entire nation. Hunsberger and Kløcker Larsen (2021) describe similar “spatial politics” in three Canadian energy projects. Below, we explore how this facultative scope-shifting ran counter to the intent of U.S. federal guidelines and also exacerbated both distributive and recognition injustices for the Tribes.…”

Section: Scope-shifting In Analyzing Benefits and Costsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline

Bondi,

Horowitz

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Through a study of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) environmental assessment (EA) of the Dakota Access Pipeline's crossing of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, this paper explores regulatory agencies’ “interpretive implementation.” We find that, in implementing the National Environmental Policy Act and Executive Order 12898 on Environmental Justice, USACE “scope-shifted”—facultatively expanding and contracting the scopes of its spatial, scientific and cost–benefit impact analyses—to expedite industrial expansion, contravening the policies’ original intents. In doing so, USACE's EA created various energy injustices by excluding local tribes (especially the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes) and their concerns, e.g. treaty rights, local histories, climate change and especially potential oil spills with impacts on human health and subsistence resources. We analyze this scope-shifting through the lens of Karl Polayni's double movement between socioenvironmental protections and capitalist development. We elaborate this framework further via a triple-helix model that analyses ideologies, power relations and policies (here further complicated by both “law” and “interpretation” threads), as three intertwined strands that pull with or against each other, jointly progressing toward greater rights for vulnerable communities, “retrograding” toward earlier, oppressive conditions or simply stagnating. Ultimately, we argue that understanding scope-shifting and other forms of interpretive implementation as threads within the triple-helix policy strand, in dynamic tension or synchrony with other threads and strands, can help explicate agency decision-making processes. We hope that this conceptualization can elucidate the capacity of seemingly mundane bureaucratic practices for exacerbating, or potentially alleviating, energy injustice.

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Section: Scope-shifting In Analyzing Benefits and Costsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline

Bondi,

Horowitz

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Given that the construction of energy infrastructure in Canada is subject to environmental and safety assessments with public hearings, the media has covered these assessments as key moments in challenges from social movements and the mobilization of potential or symbolic vetoes by provincial and local governments (Hoberg, 2013). Such formal procedures set boundaries in terms of legitimate actors and spaces for consideration in terms of environmental and social impacts (Hunsberger and Klocher Larsen, 2021; Salomons and Hoberg, 2014).…”

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The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes

Neste¹,

Couture-Guillet

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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From 2013 to 2016, two pipeline projects were vigorously contested in the Tiohtià:ke: Montreal area in Quebec, Canada. These disputes are analyzed as instances of the urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure. This politicization involves power struggles for authority in energy landscapes, particularly in relation to the material entanglement of energy in the city-region, that is, which parts of the infrastructure and landscapes come to matter. Drawing on work from political ecologists and scholars pressing for a rematerializing of urban studies, we supplement their insights with a conceptualization of struggles for urban authority in the governance of energy, in two parallel processes: one of performing centralized urban authority (notably with the media) and a second messier politics of multiplicities operating in spaces of urban governance and resistance. Struggles for urban authority are co-constructed with the socio-material realities of infrastructure and involve actors who are engaged in everyday practices of regulating, maintaining and protecting landscapes. Yet, in the mediatization of urban energy landscapes, certain voices, notably of Indigenous communities, remain on the margins, resulting in few challenges to settler colonialism and climate-changing extractivism.

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“…Fourth, a process occurs when one party negatively influences another, by engaging in physical violence that disturbs other people's feelings. Fifth, the form of functional conflict, because such conflict supports the group's goals and renews the view, is dysfunctional because it eliminates the group's appearance (Hunsberger & Larsen, 2021). Sixth, obtaining a monopoly of power rewards ownership by eliminating or weakening competitors.…”

Section: Conflictmentioning

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Analysis of the Interest of the Chinese Government in the Xinjiang Region in the Uyghur Muslim Ethnic Conflict

Nurhidayati

Rahayu

Utari³

et al. 2022

IJD

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Muslims in China are one of the minority ethnic groups that still exist today. Ethnic Hui and Uyghurs are among China’s most significant ethnic minority Muslims. The Uyghur Ethnic Conflict was based on discrimination by the Chinese government against Uyghur Muslims, which later led to anarchic acts and policies of persecution of the Chinese government towards Uyghur ethnicity. This study looks at the interests of the Chinese state government in the Xinjiang region in the occurrence of Uyghur Muslim ethnic conflicts. The approach used in this research is qualitative. Then the data used in this study comes from various research results and previous studies that are still related to the Uyghur Muslim ethnic conflict. This study found that the Uyghur Muslim ethnic group in Xinjian felt injustice, so they asked the Chinese government to separate Xinjian from China. Then this conflict is getting worse because the Chinese government uses violence and violates human rights. Despite getting a lot of criticism from various parts of the world, China still carries out this repression for its economic purposes.Keywords: Uyghur Muslims, China, Interest, Ethnic Conflict, Xinjiang. AbstrakMuslim di China merupakan salah satu etnis minoritas yang masih eksis hingga saat ini. Etnis Hui dan Uyghur adalah salah satu etnis minoritas Muslim paling signifikan di China. Konflik Etnis Uyghur didasari oleh diskriminasi yang dilakukan pemerintah China terhadap Muslim Uyghur, yang kemudian berujung pada tindakan anarkis dan kebijakan persekusi pemerintah China terhadap etnis Uyghur. Penelitian ini melihat kepentingan pemerintah negara China di wilayah Xinjiang dalam terjadinya konflik etnis Muslim Uyghur. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatif. Kemudian data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini berasal dari berbagai hasil penelitian dan penelitian sebelumnya yang masih terkait dengan konflik etnis Muslim Uyghur. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa kelompok etnis Muslim Uyghur di Xinjian merasakan ketidakadilan, sehingga mereka meminta pemerintah China untuk memisahkan Xinjian dari China. Kemudian konflik ini semakin parah karena pemerintah China menggunakan kekerasan dan melanggar hak asasi manusia. Meski mendapat banyak kritik dari berbagai belahan dunia, China tetap melakukan represi ini untuk kepentingan ekonominya.Kata kunci: Muslim Uyghur, Cina, Kepentingan, Konflik Etnis, Xinjiang.

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The spatial politics of energy conflicts: How competing constructions of scale shape pipeline and shale gas struggles in Canada

Cited by 12 publications

References 37 publications

Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline

Scope-shifting: Bureaucracy, Energy Justice and the Dakota Access Pipeline

The urban politicization of fossil fuel infrastructure: Mediatization and resistance in energy landscapes

Analysis of the Interest of the Chinese Government in the Xinjiang Region in the Uyghur Muslim Ethnic Conflict

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