Contentious baselining
The politics of "pre-drilling" environmental measures in shale gas territory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abby Kinchy (0000-0001-5296-482X, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 76-94 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848619877585 |
| OpenAlex | W2975274582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 38 |
Ignorance about baseline conditions can be advantageous to companies that are suspected of causing environmental harm, because it allows them to claim that perhaps the degradation was a pre-existing problem. In the case of Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania (USA), gas well operators have created strategic ignorance about and through baselines in at least two ways: (1) drawing attention to weaknesses in the documentation of past environmental states and (2) controlling access to data that was collected in the past. This case further reveals that ordinary individuals and environmental organizations have taken an active interest in producing environmental baselines, separate from any formal regulatory process that might call for them. However, public participation in baselining does not occur on a level playing field, and it is a weak strategy for holding polluters accountable
Baseline (sea · Business · Documentation · Environmental planning · Harm · Ignorance · Natural gas · Oil shale · Political science · Politics · Shale Gas · Waste management · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Environmental Science · Law · Mining and Resource Management
L’ignorance comme source de vulnérabilités
Introduction – Unknowing geographies
Mapping the truth about mining
River Communities, Disaster Science, and the Politics of Water Safety
Thinking beyond ‘outbreak’
Negotiating salt worlds
On environments of not knowing
Divisible Governance
The passivists
Strategic translation
Lost in space
Toxic Exposures
Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
What's the ‘fracking’ problem? One word can’t say it all
Megawatts mask impacts
Civil society research and Marcellus Shale natural gas development
Toward strategic management of shale gas development
Chile's Environmental Assessments
Citizen Science and Democracy
Group Dynamics and Resource Availability of a Long-Term Volunteer Water-Monitoring Program
Non-stick science
Ways of knowing the wastewaterscape
The Future of Environmental Expertise
The logic of strategic ignorance
Changing Knowledge, Local Knowledge, and Knowledge Gaps
Undone Science
Mining Capitalism
Situated Knowledges
The Unknown in Process
Documenting Accountability
Please in My Backyard
Removing Knowledge
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |