Public Responses to Fossil Fuel Export

Hilary Boudet is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University. She has written extensively on public perceptions of and community response to energy development, particularly natural gas. Before joining the faculty at Oregon State University, Hilary was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, where she also completed her PhD in Environment and Resources. She holds a BA in Environmental Engineering and Political Science from Rice University. Shawn Olson Hazboun is a Member of the Faculty in the Graduate Program on the Environment at The Evergreen State College. Her research focuses on the social dimensions of energy systems, including community impacts from energy production and public perceptions about energy and related infrastructure. She has a PhD in Sociology from Utah State University and an MS from the University of Colorado – Boulder.

PART I Introduction  1. An introduction to the social dimensions of fossil fuel export in an era of energy transition 3 PART II The new landscape of fossil fuel technology,supply, and policy  2. The new global energy order: shifting players, policies, and power dynamics  3. Fossil fuel export as a climate policy problem PART III Public opinion on export 4. The evolution of US public attitudes toward natural gas export: a pooled cross-sectional analysis of time series data (2013-2017)  5. Drivers of US regulatory preferences for natural gas export 6. Energy and export transitions: from oil exports to renewable energy goals in Aotearoa New Zealand 7. Trends in Norwegian views on oil and gas export 8. A “thin green line” of resistance? Assessing public views on oil, natural gas, and coal export in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and Canada PART IV Community response to export projects 9. Global discourses, national priorities, and community experiences of participation in the energy infrastructure projects in northern Russia 10. Indigenous ambivalence? It’s not about the pipeline...:Indigenous responses to fossil fuel export projects in Western Canada 11. The primacy of place: a community’s response to a proposed liquefied natural gas export facility 12. Impact geographies of gas terminal development in thenorthern Australian context: insights from Gladstone and Darwin 13. Community risk or resilience? Perceptions and responses to oil train traffic in four US rail communities 14. Leave it in the ground, or send it abroad? Assessing themes in community response to coal export proposals using topic modeling of local news PART V The future of fossil fuel export in an era of energy transition 15. Social dimensions of fossil fuel export: summary of learnings and implications for research and practice