The Messy Politics of Clean Coal: Contested Energy Alternatives in the Appalachian Coalfields

洁净煤的混乱政治：阿巴拉契亚煤田有争议的能源替代品

• 批准号: 0849040
• 负责人: Dwight Billings
• 金额: $ 11.6万
• 依托单位: University of Kentucky Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0849040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Messy; Politics; Clean; Coal; Contested

This project examines the processes by which "clean coal" technologies are being institutionalized, supported, debated, and contested at the local level in economically marginalized communities in Appalachia. A range of conflicting arguments, stories, policy perspectives, and knowledge claims of different stakeholders in these debates are documented and compared. Contemporary proposed coal-to-liquid production, coal gasification, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in five Appalachian communities are analyzed alongside coal gasification and related projects dating back to the 1970s in the region. Struggles over contemporary projects are placed in historical context through both the analysis of the successes and failures of past alternative energy projects and an extensive examination of the social, political, environmental and economic forces that have shaped the changing tides of support for (and resistance to) these technologies over time. The project increases understanding of the social, historical, political, and environmental implications of clean coal technologies, as viewed by a range of stakeholders in coal-producing communities. It deepens understanding of the ways in which dominant and marginalized groups engage in debates over controversial technologies, and how different stakeholders use data, expert knowledge claims, communications technologies, and other resources to advocate for their positions. This research contributes to literatures in the fields of Sociology, History, Appalachian Studies, and Science and Technology Studies, integrating key concepts from these fields into a multi-disciplinary approach. The project promotes broader public understanding of and participation in debates about clean coal and other energy alternatives in the Appalachian region. The comparative analysis of alternative energy projects is written for a general audience as well as an academic audience, and made available through the Appalachian Center at the University of Kentucky. Findings are circulated widely among community groups, researchers, and other constituents of the Appalachian Center in an effort to encourage public dialogue about energy alternatives in the region.

本项目研究了在阿巴拉契亚经济边缘化社区，“清洁煤”技术在地方一级被制度化、得到支持、进行辩论和提出质疑的过程。一系列相互冲突的论点，故事，政策观点，并在这些辩论中的不同利益相关者的知识主张记录和比较。当代提出的煤制油生产，煤气化，碳捕获和储存（CCS）项目在五个阿巴拉契亚社区一起分析煤气化和相关项目可以追溯到20世纪70年代在该地区。通过对过去替代能源项目的成功和失败的分析，以及对社会，政治，环境和经济力量的广泛研究，当代项目的斗争被置于历史背景中，这些力量塑造了随着时间的推移对这些技术的支持（和抵制）的不断变化的潮流。该项目增加了对清洁煤技术的社会，历史，政治和环境影响的理解，正如煤炭生产社区的一系列利益相关者所看到的那样。它加深了对主导和边缘化群体参与有争议技术辩论的方式的理解，以及不同利益攸关方如何使用数据，专家知识主张，通信技术和其他资源来倡导他们的立场。这项研究有助于社会学，历史，阿巴拉契亚研究和科学技术研究领域的文献，将这些领域的关键概念整合到多学科方法中。该项目促进公众更广泛地了解和参与关于阿巴拉契亚地区清洁煤炭和其他能源替代品的辩论。替代能源项目的比较分析是为普通观众和学术观众编写的，并通过肯塔基州大学的阿巴拉契亚中心提供。调查结果在社区团体、研究人员和阿巴拉契亚中心的其他成员中广泛传播，以鼓励公众就该地区的能源替代品进行对话。