The politics and policy of carbon capture and storage: Framing an emergent technology

Bäckstrand, Karin; Meadowcroft, James; Oppenheimer, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.03.008

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Section: Organisational Practice In Public Engagement and Communicationmentioning

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“…For the public, storage-related concerns may persist even after detailed information has been provided (Brunsting et al, 2013;Upham and Roberts, 2011). Despite this, CCS -the separation and compression of CO 2 from power and industrial plants and its disposal in saline aquifers, depleted oil or gas fields -has come to be seen in many quarters as a key climate change mitigation option (Bäckstrand et al, 2011;Oltra et al, 2012).Given that we examine the role of internal organisational function, practice and structure in public engagement rather than public psychology, institutional perspectives are particularly relevant and we draw upon new institutionalist thinking here. Consistent with a perspective that takes as its unit of analysis routinized, more or less codified 'ways of doing things', we also deviate here from a psychological approach by adopting a socio-technical stance towards public engagement with technology, viewing the public as part of systems of energy provision rather than independently responsive to exogenous technologies.…”

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Organisational aspects of public engagement in European energy infrastructure planning: the case of early-stage CCS projects

Breukers¹,

Upham

2013

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of studies on public perceptions of carbon capture and storage (CCS), accompanied by efforts to translate such knowledge into toolkits for public engagement and communication. At the same time, both literature and toolkits have paid little attention to the organisational dynamics and views of project implementers with regard to public engagement. Here we investigate the views of project development consortia employees in five European CCS projects, focusing on their experience of organisational norms and structures relating to engagement. Finding that planning for this engagement has in several cases been hampered by a lack of shared internal vision on engagement and communication within the project consortia, at least initially, we draw upon the socio-technical approach to technology embedment and new institutional theory, to observe that internal organisational alignment is crucial in multi-organisational projects when seeking effective public engagement and communication. We observe that this aspect of internal organisation is not yet reflected in the toolkits and guidelines designed to aid engagement in CCS projects. Engagement guides need to direct the attention of project implementers not only in specific outward directions, but also towards reflexively considering their own internal structures, perspectives, motivations, expectations and aims in relation to engagement and communication practice. The work was begun while at the Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester.Breukers S, Upham P. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2013 DOI:10.1080/09640568.2013 2 Key words:Public engagement; communication; CCS; organisational dynamics Organisational practice in public engagement and communicationThe literature on public opinion of renewable and low carbon energy infrastructure has variously focussed on the characteristics of the technology involved; the psychological processes of the receiving population; and institutional, planning and governance-related factors ; for reviews see Bell, Gray and Hagget, 2005;Upham et al., 2009 andWhitmarsh et al., 2011;Wolsink, 2006). Reflecting increasingly nuanced understandings of public opinion in this context, energy infrastructure developers in Europe and elsewhere are now typically encouraged towards early public engagement and to obtain an understanding of the social context of planned developments. In pragmatic terms, early public engagement acknowledges that local acceptance may be contingent on situational, highly local circumstances (Renn, 2008) and that a developer would do well to anticipate some of these.In general, then, the focus in the siting literature is on affected populations and their environment in a wide sense. It is much less common to examine public engagement in energy infrastructure developments from the perspective of the organisations promoting the development. Responding to this, here we investigate opinion, dynamics and structures within the boundaries of the firms involved in develo...

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Organisational aspects of public engagement in European energy infrastructure planning: the case of early-stage CCS projects

Breukers¹,

Upham

2013

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…The clean coal (including carbon capture and storage) alternative is widely promoted as the win-win climate change solution (see Backstrand et al, 2011;Buhr and Hansson, 2011). On the one hand, it retains coal's primacy in the Australian economy and as its major electricity source; on the other, by proposing to 'clean' it, Australian coal helps address the climate problem.…”

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Contested energy futures: Shaping renewable energy narratives in Australia

Curran

2012

Global Environmental Change

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“…Storage is at the end of the chain composing the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology (Pires et al, 2011), and regulations (Bäckstrand et al, 2011) and guidelines (Carpenter et al, 2011) for CO 2 geological storage projects are under development. Throughout the project period; from site selection, the operational phase and after closure, numerical simulation tools will be an integral part of the toolbox for the operator and governmental bodies.…”

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Assessing model parameter uncertainties for rising velocity of CO2 droplets through experimental design

Hvidevold

Alendal

Johannessen

et al. 2012

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

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a b s t r a c tThe risk and environmental impact assessments required for geological CO 2 storage projects will have to rely on different types of numerical models, which will have to be calibrated and validated against measurements. Available measurements from ongoing demonstration projects are limited, hence it is necessary to turn to analog processes or laboratory experiments to estimate model parameters. In any case, parameter estimates will have uncertainties that will be important to assess when predicting future scenarios.We study a model for the rise velocity of droplets in the ocean, an important process sub-model for simulating gas seeps into marine waters. As the origin we use the parameters estimation study by Bigalke et al. (2010) based on a tank experiment. We illustrate how Linearized Covariance Analysis (LCA) can be used to assess the parameter uncertainties, and how to design a similar experiment that reduces these uncertainties. The linearity assumption underlying LCA is assessed using curvature measures. It is shown that up to ∼63% reduction in uncertainties is achieved by choosing the right droplet size distribution; by extending the range of droplet sizes to include larger droplets the uncertainties are reduced by another ∼88%.

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The politics and policy of carbon capture and storage: Framing an emergent technology

Cited by 74 publications

References 60 publications

Organisational aspects of public engagement in European energy infrastructure planning: the case of early-stage CCS projects

Organisational aspects of public engagement in European energy infrastructure planning: the case of early-stage CCS projects

Contested energy futures: Shaping renewable energy narratives in Australia

Assessing model parameter uncertainties for rising velocity of CO2 droplets through experimental design

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