scholarly journals Status Quo Sorrows: The Failures of Energy Project Consultations and Reconciliatory Paths Forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omri Rozen
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Project Development ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Impact And Benefit Agreements ◽  
Two Alternatives

Canada’s prevailing Aboriginal consultation regime for major energy projects is not working. Indeed, Indigenous peoples, industry proponents, and the Crown have all expressed increasing frustration and dismay at the uncertainty and acrimony that a legal regime intended to facilitate reconciliation between Canada and Indigenous peoples has counterproductively generated. In this paper, I describe the underlying principles of a process-oriented reconciliation that animate the Court’s jurisprudence on section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. I then identify the failures in effectively translating these principles to the major energy context, focusing in particular on the harms generated by the lack of accountability and transparency of the National Energy Board/Canada Energy Regulator administrative scheme. I finally consider two alternatives or additions to contemporary resource project consultations – namely, Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) and a proposed Indigenous veto – finding that an Indigenous veto may be an especially effective means of introducing greater equity, fairness, and certainty to major energy project development in Canada, to the benefit of all relevant stakeholders.

Subverting Eurocentric Epistemology

2021 ◽  
pp. 145-161
Author(s):  
Mohsen al Attar
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Current Regime ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Status

Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) has a fundamental problem: its scholars don’t quite know how to relate to international law. This problem is constitutive of the theory, born as it was out of disillusionment with the failures of decolonisation and, of course, of international law. As a consequence, we find in TWAIL scholarship the juxtaposition of powerful critiques of international law alongside noisy calls for more international law. TWAIL’s aspirational projects are timid, constrained as they are by TWAIL’s overriding commitment to a legal regime its scholars bemoan. In this chapter, I propose to use counterfactuals to overcome the schizophrenia. I treat counterfactuals as a device that enables methodical explorations of alternative legal imaginaries. Contrary to Venzke, I propose exploring counterfactuals that are neither probable nor sensible within the current regime. For TWAIL, counterfactuals have value if they facilitate thinking beyond the rigidity of the status quo. And that’s the point: if TWAIL’s mission is to upend Eurocentric epistemology and practice, we must begin to imagine international law outside the parameters established by Europe.

Do high renewable energy targets hinder donor-funded rural electrification in Pacific island countries?

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryohei Ikarii
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Rural Electrification ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Energy Projects ◽  
Pacific Island Countries ◽  
Over Time

High renewable energy targets and rural electrification are not necessarily complementary in Pacific island countries (PICs). While PICs need to tackle both high renewable energy targets for climate change and rural electrification for further development, investment in renewable energy in urban areas is a more cost-effective means of achieving renewable energy targets than rural electrification with renewables. In the energy sector in PICs, foreign aid is the single most important source of investment. Thus, this research will investigate donor-funding for energy projects, assess the extent to which the funding is focused on rural electrification, and examine whether the situation has changed over time in this region. A large share of the information about foreign aid for energy projects between 2013 and 2015 are extracted from a database of a think tank. All the energy projects are sorted into four categories: urban power supply, rural electrification, others, and unspecified projects. The results show that PICs are not only improving urban power supply but also enhancing rural electrification currently, and foreign aid for rural electrification has increased over time. This research also suggests policy recommendations for the donor and recipient governments, including data collection and analysis on electricity demand and energy consumption.

Energy Project Portfolio Management System Construction

2011 ◽  
Vol 211-212 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Yun Na Wu ◽  
Jia Li Wang ◽  
Jiang Shuai Li
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Project Portfolio ◽  
System Construction ◽  
Project Development ◽  
Project Portfolio Management ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
Current State ◽  
Energy Projects

As increasingly complex of the energy project management, traditional project management system is not very suitable for energy projects management. Combined with unique characteristics of energy projects, this paper studies the current state of the energy project development and takes advantage of project portfolio management, builds the energy project portfolio management system which includes energy project advices, selection, evaluation, assessment and implementation. The system solves the complex problems of energy project management, and then ensures that energy projects meet the strategic requirements of country and enterprises.

scholarly journals The Rise of Indigenous (Pluri-)Nationalism: The Case of the Sámi People

Sociology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1141-1158
Author(s):  
Aslak-Antti Oksanen
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
State Level ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Status ◽  
State Relations ◽  
Freedom Of Action

Indigenous peoples have found the nationalist language of peoples’ inherent right to self-determination helpful in articulating their political demands. Gerald Taiaiake Alfred’s model of indigenous nationalism explains the emergence of this form of indigenous self-assertion as a reaction to settler-colonial incursions. However, it cannot account for the timing of its recent successes in unsettling the status quo of indigenous–settler-state relations. This article addresses this limitation by incorporating Michael Keating’s concept of post-sovereignty, which highlights the supranational plane constraining states’ freedom of action, while providing indigenous peoples with laws and norms above state level to appeal to. Additionally, Keating’s concept of plurinationalism is drawn upon to capture the emerging reconfiguration of indigenous–settler-state relations. This combined conceptual framework is used to illuminate the Sámi people’s relations to the Nordic states as expressive of emergent indigenous nationalism, formed in reaction to settler-colonialism and enabled by international norms, laws and global indigenous peoples’ networks.

scholarly journals Using Verbal Irony to Move on with Controversial Issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winston Kwon ◽  
Ian Clarke ◽  
Eero Vaara ◽  
Rowan Mackay ◽  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Multinational Company ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Environmental Constraints ◽  
Verbal Irony ◽  
Process Dynamics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Do So

Irony is an effective means of dealing with controversy in organizations, but there is a paucity of knowledge of the various ways in which irony helps managers to do so without necessarily ‘solving’ those issues. By drawing on discursive incongruity theory, we examine the use of irony when managers are confronted with controversial issues in a multinational company. As a result, we identify and elaborate on four distinctively different pathways of how irony helps participants to move on: ‘acquiescing’ (framing understanding as having no alternative because of environmental constraints), ‘empowering’ (synthesizing a view through broad inputs from different individuals), ‘channelling’ (subsuming other interpretations under a single and often dominant view) and ‘dismissing’ (rejecting alternative interpretations and often reinforcing the status quo). On this basis, we develop a theoretical model that elucidates the process dynamics in dealing with and moving on with controversial issues and elaborates the specific characteristics of each of these four pathways. Our analysis also leads to a fuller understanding of the discursive underpinnings and intersubjective dynamics in irony use in organizations.

The Rights Granted to Indigenous Peoples under International Law

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taryn Lee
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Status ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Groups

Indigenous peoples in Australia have been adversely affected by the process of colonisation by the British Crown. Despite Australia’s adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (‘Declaration’), there is little evidence that it is an effective means of redressing the historical wrongs suffered by Indigenous communities in Australia. This essay outlines the experience of Indigenous peoples in Australia and examines the utility of the Declaration in international law. While observing that Indigenous peoples have had limited engagement with the Declaration, there is still potential for the Declaration to affect change through its underpinning principles of the right to self-determination and the status of Indigenous peoples as distinct political groups.

scholarly journals Green Energy—Green for Whom? A Case Study of the Kabinakagami River Waterpower Project in Northern Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9445
Author(s):  
Stephen R. J. Tsuji ◽  
Dan D. P. McCarthy ◽  
Stephen Quilley
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Northern Canada ◽  
Energy Projects

Green energy has become a term that heralds efforts of environmental conservation and protection worldwide; however, much of it is marred with questions of what it means to be green. More precisely, it has become a question of Green for whom? While many of the impacts of supposed green energy projects are local in their reach, some may be more regional in their scope, such as hydroelectric power. Hydroelectric power generation negatively impacts the environment and people who rely on the environment for sustenance, such as, Indigenous peoples of northern Canada. Taking into account their position with respect to the areas impacted by these green projects, many Indigenous peoples have voiced their concerns and doubts concerning green energy, which is purported to be a mode of energy production that champions the environment. The Kabinakagami River Waterpower Project serves as a case study for both the potential effects of the project and the different views associated with these endeavors. If nothing else, the accounts and testimonies found within shall stand as a testament to the hubris of calling an energy project green without properly assessing and considering the impacts. While these statements relate to the case presented, they also carry significance in the wider world due to the numerous Indigenous communities around the world that are having their spaces slowly being encroached upon in the name of sustainable growth, or green energy. This will especially be true in the post-COVID-19 period where green energy and a green economy are being touted as a way towards state and worldwide recovery.

scholarly journals Las minorías en Derecho Internacional = Minorities in International Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 243
Author(s):  
Javier Chinchón Álvarez
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
Initial Analysis

Resumen: El presente artículo ofrece un examen del término minoría desde la perspectiva del Derecho internacional. Para ello, se realizará un primer análisis que trate de configurar su conceptualización actual a partir del desarrollo habido especialmente desde la época de la Sociedad de Naciones. A continuación se expondrán las notas fundamentales en cuanto al régimen jurídico internacional aplicable a las minorías, distinguiendo a tal efecto entre este concepto y el de pueblos y poblaciones indígenas. Concluyendo, finalmente, con una breve reflexión a la luz de todo ello y de la realidad que enfrentan las minorías en la actualidad según los propios órganos internacionales.Palabras clave: Minorías, Derecho internacional, pueblos, poblaciones indígenas.Abstract: This article offers an examination of the term minority from the international law perspective. For this purpose, an initial analysis will be carried out trying to configure its current conceptualization based on the development that has taken place especially since the League of Nations age. This will be followed by the fundamental notes regarding the international legal regime applicable to minorities, distinguishing between this concept, peoples and the indigenous peoples. Finally, it will be concluded with a brief reflection in light of all this issues and the reality that minorities currently face according to the international bodies themselves. Keywords: Minorities, International Law, Peoples, Indigenous Peoples.

Otra vez los consorcios administrativos: novedades introducidas por la Ley 40/2015 de régimen jurídico del sector público

2016 ◽  
pp. 473-513
Author(s):  
Francisco TOSCANO GIL
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Legal Regime ◽  
State Legislation ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status

LABURPENA: Sektore publikoaren araubide juridikoari buruzko urriaren 1eko 40/2015 Legea administrazio-partzuergoen lege-araubidearen hirugarren erreforma da urte pare bateko epearen barruan, eta berriro aldatu du erakunde horien status quo delakoa. Azken erreforma hau, neurri handi batean, aurreko bi erreformen bategitea den arren, berritasun nabarmen batzuk ere ekarri ditu eta, horiekin batera, zenbait zuzenketa tekniko ere bai, guztiak ere lan honetan aztertu nahi izan direnak. Estatuko oinarrizko legerian sartu diren berritasunen artean bi behintzat azpimarratzekoak dira: bata da salbuespen bat sartu zaiola partzuergoko langileak berorretan parte hartzen duten Administrazioetatik datozenak soilik izan daitezkeela zioen arauari, eta bestea, partzuergoan sartzea ahalbidetzen zaien erakunde pribatuei jada ez zaiela eskatzen irabazi asmorik gabekoak izatea. RESUMEN: La Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de régimen jurídico del sector público es la tercera reforma del régimen legal de los consorcios administrativos en un plazo de apenas dos años, volviendo a alterar nuevamente el status quo de estas entidades. Aunque esta última reforma es en gran medida una refundición de las dos reformas anteriores, también introduce algunas novedades significativas, así como algunas correcciones técnicas, que constituyen el objeto de este trabajo. Entre las novedades introducidas por la legislación estatal básica deben destacarse dos: la introducción de una excepción a la regla de que el personal del consorcio proceda exclusivamente de las Administraciones participantes, y la supresión de la exigencia de que las entidades privadas a las que se permite integrarse en el consorcio lo sean sin ánimo de lucro. ABSTRACT : Act 40/2015 of October 1st on the legal regime of the public sector is the third reform to the legal regime of administrative consortiums in no longer than two years, where the status quo of those entities has been changed again. Although this last reform is to a great extent a recast of the two previous reforms, it also introduces substantial novelties, together with some technical amendments and that is this works’ purpose. Outstanding among the novelties introduced by the basic State legislation are two: the introduction of an excepction to the rule that the consortium’s staff belongs only to the participating administrations and the abolition of the requirement that private entities part of a consortium shall be non-profit bodies.

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