Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the "lived experience" of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom's Fylde communities
Humanizing hydrocarbon frontiers: the "lived experience" of shale gas fracking in the United Kingdom's Fylde communities
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人性化碳氢化合物前沿：英国 Fylde 社区页岩气水力压裂的“亲身体验”
DOI：
10.1080/13549839.2020.1849076
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.4
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Sovacool B
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Sovacool B
在这项研究中，我们探讨了英国页岩气开采前沿社区的生活经验。我们问：当地人如何体验页岩气开发？个人用什么样的叙述和推理来解释他们对非常规油气开发的支持、反对或矛盾心理？他们如何理解他们的生活经历随着时间的推移而变化，他们依赖什么样的应对策略？为此，我们从对英格兰兰开夏郡31名个人的半结构化采访中获得了见解，这些人在英国唯一活跃的页岩气开采作业附近生活或工作，直到2019年12月政府宣布暂停。通过这些数据，我们确定了负面体验的几个主题，包括“可怕的”参与，社区“虐待”，幻灭和“厌恶”，以及可能“毁灭”生活的地震。我们还确定了积极的经验，强调团结和社区“胶凝”，环境“意识”，日常能源安全与天然气作为“桥接燃料”，以及当地就业与“高质量的工作”的主题。最后，我们确定的矛盾和时间动态的经验与页岩气的主题，从中性到负面的车辆交通，中性到积极的厌恶与抗议行为和社区资源的分流。我们的研究为高级别的政策问题提供了背景，并使水力压裂现场附近的社区和居民体验人性化。
In this study, we explore the lived experiences of communities at the frontier of shale gas extraction in the United Kingdom. We ask: How do local people experience shale gas development? What narratives and reasoning do individuals use to explain their support, opposition or ambivalence to unconventional hydrocarbon developments? How do they understand their lived experiences changing over time, and what sorts of coping strategies do they rely upon? To do so, we draw insights from semi-structured interviews with 31 individuals in Lancashire, England, living or working near the only active shale gas extraction operation in the UK until the government moratorium was announced in December of 2019. Through these data, we identify several themes of negative experiences, including “horrendous” participation, community “abuse,” disillusionment and “disgust,” and earthquakes with the potential to “ruin” lives. We also identify themes of positive experiences emphasizing togetherness and community “gelling”, environmental “awareness,” everyday energy security with gas as a “bridging fuel,” and local employment with “high quality jobs.” Finally, we identify themes of ambivalent and temporally dynamic experiences with shale gas that move from neutral to negative regarding vehicle traffic, and neutral to positive regarding disgust with protesting behaviour and the diversion of community resources. Our study offers context to high level policy concerns and also humanizes community and resident experiences close to fracking sites.