Shale Gas Planning Applications, Protesters, and Governance: Lessons From the UK
Article from: OGEL 3 (2014), in Unconventional Oil and Gas
Summary
This paper considers the background to high profile protests against fracking for shale gas in the UK from risk perception, risk management, and governance perspectives. There has always been a tendency to label community opposition to new development projects as "Not In My Back Yard" (NIMBY), or "Not In Any Body's Back Yard" (NIABY) in nature, and therefore either as being self-interested, or implacable and by implication unreasonable in nature. This paper argues that such community reactions are in fact quite predictable responses to perceived external ...