The colonialism of carbon capture and storage in Alberta's Tar Sands

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4464883
AutoresChloe Alexander (0000-0001-9000-9663, University of Guelph, autor correspondente), Anna Stanley (0009-0008-6993-6882, University of Guelph)
Ano2022
Volume5
Fascículo4
Páginas2112-2131
Data de publicação2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/25148486211052875
OpenAlexW4200466917
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas32

This essay considers carbon capture and storage (CCS) in relation to struggles over value and territorial jurisdiction in the Alberta Tar Sands. Critical engagements with CCS have pointed to the legitimising function of the technology and highlight its role normalising extraction in the tar sands. We suggest that neither the significance of CCS nor the legitimation function it performs can be fully understood absent an analysis of settler colonialism. CCS we argue is a colonial flanking mechanism directly centred on the governance of harm that construes harm in ways that reproduce settler colonial entitlements to Indigenous lands, bodies and ecosystems and helps to consolidate state jurisdiction and power in the tar sands. This construal of harm also productively intersects other colonial strategies of harm reduction relative to the tar sands, including the criminalisation of Indigenous jurisdiction, and is part of a broader relational context that prioritises settler colonial futurity

Archaeology · Colonialism · Environmental ethics · Geography · Harm · Indigenous · Jurisdiction · Political science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Philosophy · Ecology