Language and environmental justice: articulating intersectionality within energy policy deliberations

Environmental justice and natural resource extraction: intersections of power, equity and access

“…Processes surrounding policy formation and even information access are shaped by meta-power, constraining who is able to authentically access and influence policy discussions, processes, and outcomes. For example, in this issue, George (2019) observes that individuals potentially impacted by proposed energy extraction projects have little advance notice, reducing their capacity to successfully mobilize and challenge projects' permitting or potential impacts in a meaningful and influential way. Similarly, in Jalbert's et al's (2019) contribution to this issue, the authors argue that control over informational aspects of procedural equity in environmental decisionmaking can amount to a form of data injustice.…”