Extraction - impacts, engagements, and alternative futures

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Figures Tables Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Confronting Extraction, Taking Action Legacies of Exploitation Situating ExtrACTION Framing Impacts Building Resistance Toward Post-Extractivism Notes References Part I Histories & Trajectories 1 The Great Crew Change?: Structuring Work in the Oilfield Introduction The Global Hydrocarbon Complex Historical Context Seeking Economic Viability: Accessing and Replacing Reserves Operating in the Oilfield: Companies and Workers Labor Expansion and Divestment Adapting to Changing Circumstances Melvin Blanchard R.J. Cheramie Paul Woodhall The Great Crew Change? Note References 2 Mega-mining Sovereignty: Landscapes of Power and Protest in Uruguay’s New Extractivist Frontier From a Natural to a Productive Uruguay Early Challenges to the Productive Uruguay Model The Rise of Uruguay’s New Environmentalism Uruguay Libre The Permanent National Assembly The Western Montevideo Neighbors Coordinate (CVOM) Discussion Conclusion Notes References 3 Marcellus Shale as Golden Goose: The Discourse of Development and the Marginalization of Resistance in Northcentral ... Extraction, Discourse, and Marginalization Extraction and the “Company Town” Energopower and Extraction Discourse Research Methods Social Inequality and the Energopower Discourse Frame Cultural Norms of Censorship Energopower and the New Company Town Conclusion References Part II Risks & Rights 4 Bounded Impacts, Boundless Promise: Environmental Impact Assessments of Oil Production in the Ecuadorian Amazon Oil Production and Environmental Regulation in Ecuador The Baseline Study and Area of Influence Impacts and Disturbance Governance and Alternatives Conclusion Notes References 5 The Power and Politics of Health Impact Assessment in the Pacific Northwest Coal Export Debate A New Energy Geography Values in Conflict Contemplating the Health Risks Shortcomings of Statutory Assessment The Promise of HIA The Assessment Vacuum Valorizing HIA Proliferating Assessments Reinscribing Harm Conclusion: Outing Technocratic Science Note References 6 Contingent Legal Futures: Does the Ability to Exercise Aboriginal Rights and Title Turn on the Price of Gold? Tsilhqot’in v. BC: A Landmark Court Decision Historical Background: Struggles Over Resources from the 1850s to 2000 Taseko’s Gold-Copper Mine Proposal and the Process of Environmental Assessment After Tsilhqot’in: Dasiqox Tribal Park ʔEsggidam: “jurisdiction, language, culture, laws, respect, and honour” Recommendations for Responsible Mining: The Mount Polley Disaster The Source of Aboriginal Title Notes References Cases Cited Legislation Cited 7 Corexit to Forget It: Transforming Coastal Louisiana into an Energy Sacrifice Zone Establishing an Energy Sacrifice Zone The Extractive Industry–Government Relationship The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Local and Subsistence Effects Corexit to Forget It Conclusion: Colonial Legacies and the Sacrifice of Coastal Louisiana References Part III Struggles & Opportunities 8 With or Without Railway?: Post-catastrophe Perceptions of Risk and Development in Lac-Mégantic, Québec Introduction Social Sciences and Technological Disasters Context and Methodological Framework The Railway of Discord Risk #1: The Railway: Risk Becomes Reality Risk #2: Weakened Economic Vitality With or Without Railway? Decision-Makers: Focused on the Economy? Envisioning the Future Post-disaster Impacts and Citizen Voice Conclusion Note References 9 Bringing Country Back?: Indigenous Aspirations and Ecological Values in Australian Mine-Site Rehabilitation Introduction Mining and Rehabilitating Country Changing Rehabilitation Objectives and Contexts at Weipa Alngith People and Rehabilitation at Weipa “Country” as a Rehabilitation Framework Conclusion: “Country” and Rehabilitation as Politically Contingent Notes References 10 Harmonizing Grassroots Organizing and Legal Advocacy to Address Coal Mining and Shale Gas Drilling Issues in ... Longwall Coal Mining in Pennsylvania Grassroots Organizing in Response to Coal Mining 1994–2012 Tri-State Citizens Mining Network 1994–2007 The Center for Coalfield Justice 2007–2012 Adding Legal Work Alongside Grassroots Organizing “Client-centered Legal Counseling” Policy Work and Litigation Cultural and Historical Context CCJ Litigates on Behalf of the Community: The Restoration of Duke Lake Community Listening plus Litigation: Bailey Mine Expansion Appeal Client-centered Counseling: Hydraulic Fracturing Water Filling Station Conclusion Notes References Part IV Alternative Futures 11 Images of Harm, Imagining Justice: Gold Mining Contestation in Kyrgyzstan Listening to Shifting Discourses Compensation Rights and Realizing Images Matter Procedural Justice, Images as Legal Tools Populism and Distributive Justice Imagining a Climate-Changed Future Conclusion and Implications Notes References 12 El Salvador’s Challenge to the Latin American Extractive Imperative Introduction Situating El Salvador and Gold Mining within the Latin America Context El Salvador’s Divergence from the Regional Consensus on Extraction A Common Goal Without a Common Movement Turning the Page on the Extractive Imperative Lessons for an Alternative Future Conclusion Notes References 13 Unconventional Action and Community Control: Rerouting Dependencies Despite the Hydrocarbon Economy Within and Beyond the Hydrocarbon Economy Relations of Dependence Eigg, Land Reform, and Electrification San Isidro, Water and Labor Migration Chains of Extraction Conclusion References 14 Toward Transition?: Challenging Extractivism and the Politics of the Inevitable on the Navajo Nation Legacies of Extraction The Colonial Critique of Energy Development: The Emergence of Navajo ExtrACTIVISM Risk and Action at the Grassroots Alternative Logics of Transition Back to the Future: Beyond Extractivism? Notes References Afterword References Index