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Organized resistance to new fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly conflicts over pipelines, has become a formidable political force in North America. In this book, George Hoberg examines whether such place-based environmental movements are effective ways of promoting climate action, if they might inadvertently feed resistance to the development of renewable energy infrastructure, and what other, more innovative processes of decision-making would encourage the acceptance of clean energy systems. Focusing on a series of conflicts over new oil sands pipelines, Hoberg investigates activists strategy of blocking fossil fuel infrastructure, often in alliance with Indigenous groups, and examines the political and environmental outcomes of these actions.
After discussing the oil sands policy regime and the relevant political institutions in Canada and the United States, Hoberg analyzes in detail four anti-pipeline campaigns, examining the controversies over the Keystone XL, the most well-known of these movements and the first one to use infrastructure resistance as a core strategy; the Northern Gateway pipeline; the Trans Mountain pipeline; and the Energy East pipeline. He then considers the resistance dilemma: the potential of place-based activism to threaten the much-needed transition to renewable energy. He examines several episodes of resistance to clean energy infrastructure in eastern Canada and the United States. Finally, Hoberg describes some innovative processes of energy decision-making, including strategic environment assessment, and cumulative impact assessment, looking at cases in British Columbia and Lower Alberta.
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American and Comparative Environmental Policy
Sheldon Kamieniecki and Michael E. Kraft, series editors
For a complete list of books in the series, please see .
The Resistance Dilemma
Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis
George Hoberg
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This work is subject to a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license.
Subject to such license, all rights are reserved.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from the MIT Libraries.
The MIT Press would like to thank the anonymous peer reviewers who provided comments on drafts of this book. The generous work of academic experts is essential for establishing the authority and quality of our publications. We acknowledge with gratitude the contributions of these otherwise uncredited readers.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hoberg, George, author.
Title: The resistance dilemma : place-based movements and the climate crisis / George Hoberg.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] | Series: American and comparative environmental policy | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020048456 | ISBN 9780262543088 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: EnvironmentalismNorth America. | Environmental sociologyNorth America. | Environmental policyNorth AmericaCitizen participation. | Climate change mitigationNorth America. | Climatic changesGovernment policyNorth America. | Renewable energy sourcesEnvironmental aspectsNorth America. | North AmericaEnvironmental conditions.
Classification: LCC GE199.N73 H63 2021 | DDC 363.738/7460973--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020048456
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Map of the four pipeline cases.
Canadian oil sands production, 19712019.
Brent, WCS, and WTI prices, 20092020.
Albertas nonrenewable resource revenues.
GHG emissions for Canada by Canadian economic sector, 2018.
GHG emissions for Alberta by Canadian economic sector, 2018.
National issue of most concern according to public survey data, 20042020.
Keystone XL timeline.
Total Keystone XL mentions in US media, 20102018.
Keystone XL keyword mentions, 20102019.
Poll results for Keystone XL pipeline support.
Partisan views of Keystone XL pipeline (February 2017).
Northern Gateway Pipeline timeline.
Northern Gateway Pipeline total media mentions, 20102016.
Northern Gateway Pipeline media focus, 20102016.
British Columbia poll results for the following Northern Gateway support question: Given what you know about the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines project, do you support or oppose the project?
Trans Mountain Expansion Project timeline.
British Columbia poll results for the following question regarding support for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project: Given what you know about the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgans Trans Mountain pipeline, do you support or oppose the project?
Trans Mountain pipeline keyword mentions.
Energy East timeline.
Total media mentions of Energy East each year in English Canada, 20122016.
Aggregated issue mentions of the Energy East Pipeline in French and English in Canadian media, 20132016.
Comparison of issue mentions between French- and English-language Canadian media.
Forum Research poll of opinions on the Energy East Pipeline (March 2016).
Temporal relationship between the four pipeline projects.
Awareness of Site C Dam project measured by responses to the following question: Have you seen, read or heard anything about BC Hydros proposed new dam, known as Site C, near Fort St. John?
Support for Site C Dam project measured by responses to the following question: Is the idea of building Site C, a new hydroelectric dam, to help meet the rising demand for electricity in BC, an idea you support, can accept under certain circumstances, or oppose?
Results of DeSmog Canada poll of support for independent review of Site C Dam in response to the following question: BC Hydros projections indicate that the province will not need new power until 2028 at the earliest. The panel that reviewed Site C called for the demand case and cost to be examined in detail by the provinces independent regulator. Thinking about this, do you support or oppose sending the Site C dam for an independent review of both costs and demand?
Percentage of total media mentions of the Site C Dam that name specific issues.
Major environmental groups involved in oil sands and pipeline resistance.
Environmental groups active on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (July 2018).
Energy East Pipeline benefits by province.
Environmental groups opposing the Site C Dam, March 2017.
Status of Site C litigation.
Issue ranking and party advantage, Ontario 2018 election.
Summary of renewable energy controversies.
For decades, residents of communities around the world have fought against the imposition of energy production and related facilities that may impose local health or economic risks against their will. Sometimes the focus of the communities wrath has been nuclear power plants or nuclear waste facilities and the publics understandable concern over radiation leaks and related hazards. This has been particularly so when government agencies have been less than forthright about such risks. At other times, the public has worried about the local impacts of producing oil and natural gas through both conventional drilling and hydraulic fracturing and its transportation across a region through pipelines for delivery to distant destinations.
These kinds of battles have been important in Canada and the United States, and increasingly they seem to divide the public along partisan and ideological lines. Even renewable energy projects that require the building of large solar arrays and expansive wind farms (on land and offshore) or high-voltage power lines have prompted community concern over aesthetic and environmental impacts, property values, and even public health. In such cases, the environmental community itself often has become divided between proponents of much-needed energy generation to replace fossil fuels and opponents concerned about specific local impacts.
These disputes raise fascinating questions about the publics role in governing, the options open to communities when a state or national decision adversely affects their residents or at least is perceived to do so, and the challenges that governments themselves face when they seek to develop new energy facilities as part of their efforts to ward off climate change disasters. Citizens might ask what opportunities they have to participate in decision-making and what forms of resistance to energy development projects have proven to be the most efficacious. That is, they may be looking for strategic guidance. Concerning the looming risks of climate change, governments need to know what they might do to overcome community resistance and build public support for the renewable energy projects that are now so essential if nations are to begin a serious movement toward sustainable energy systems.
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