Sentences with phrase «social licence»

And while these more urgent challenges are largely cyclical in nature, the issue of social licence will not go away.

We also know approval wasn't based on social licence — our communities did not give consent to this pipeline.

The Trudeau government believes accepting the scientific evidence for human - caused climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are critical to gaining social licence for pipelines, Carr says.

A government that knows how to gain social licence to move LNG forward would today be leading an evidence - based discussion with communities on hydraulic fracturing as it is conducted here in B.C. to identify and mitigate any impacts.

The granting of social licence to development projects extends beyond the rulings of a single federal regulatory board.

Other current fixations seem equally ready for their un-tipping point: gender targets on corporate boards, anti-GMO food complaints, green energy - subsidies, and social licences for mining companies.

«If Canadian resource companies really want to do something valuable for aboriginal people while securing their social licence to operate, they should provide capital for developmental loans,» said Brian Cardinal, President, Indian Business Corporation.

Of the many ways a company can look to save money, some are socially valuable, and opting to pursue those over others might be seen as supportive of a company's social licence.

The notion of a «social licence to operate» reflects the notion that in order for a business to be successful, in the long run, the support and goodwill of society is essential.

But a food seller that looks to the aggregate social consequences of its junk - food sales, and tries to mitigate negative impacts, might be said to be doing so as part of its social licence to operate.

The only way oil and gas firms can regain their social licence in the long term, she argues, is to become diversified energy companies and move toward renewable assets.

This raises the question: just how does a company earn, and maintain, its social licence to operate?

From this range of options, each company chooses how it thinks it can best earn and keep its social licence to operate.

Each of them is a plus, and counts towards a company's social licence, but likely some combination is necessary.

In his words, he won't violate the terms of his company's unwritten «social licence» to operate.

There's no one right combination that will let a company merit its social licence.

In hiring Coady two years ago to fill its newly created chief sustainability officer position, Enbridge was acknowledging that the oilpatch might have something to learn from the forest industry about moving past environmental controversy and renewing its social licence.

«Whether we're fishing or growing fish, we need a social licence to do that,» says Cooke.

For several years, Cameco has tied compensation to environmental sustainability and worker safety, because «being in the uranium business, the company understands the importance of the social licence from the community,» says Nancy Hopkins, a lawyer who sits on several private - and public - sector boards, including Cameco's.

CCS is not the bonanza for energy producers that fracking may be — indeed, it adds about a third to the costs of a power plant in the best - case scenarios — but it's one way the hydrocarbon - based energy industry can keep its social licence to continue operating in a carbon - constrained future.

Successful companies will get the best price possible while working to constantly renew their social licence.

The challenges, Spectra Energy's Canadian LNG leader Doug Bloom said, revolve around three Ls: social licence, labour and logistics.

I would say that our nation has granted them social licence.»

In this edition, we explore in detail the risk related to maintaining an organisation's social licence to operate.

To convince Albertans skeptical of all this climate business, she swore she was earning a social licence for Alberta to export its oil.

That the clause has not been invoked for 56 years, and doing so wouldn't remotely comply with what Trudeau has called a «social licence» — a fashionable, non-legal concept swaddled in political fleece that means popular support for government projects — but still, that's how the country works.

That was supposed to give the PM the social licence to get the pipeline to tide water.

Reasons for these included discussing «pipeline development» and, after October 2015, «social licence to operate in communities».

«Clearly, the current regime is not fit for the government's purpose of gaining a social licence to frack,» Michael Bradshaw, professor of global energy at Warwich Business School, wrote in an email.

That it would give Alberta the social licence to build pipelines.

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While this is reducing the potential for charging price premiums, these credentials are still important to consider in relation to social licence to operate.

Meeting Australian community standards has been intrinsic to the «social licence» issued to meat processors since that early postwar era.

How much can a multinational take before its social licence to operate in this country expires?

It purports to recognize that in order to acquire a social licence to operate those who want to carry out SRM experiments, including David Keith himself (9), must accept some kind of public oversight.

We have known for years that Big Oil companies like BP sponsor iconic arts institutions in the UK as a way of greenwashing their image and helping the company with its «social licence to operate».

As a result, the intervention did not get the social licence necessary to proceed.

Wind farmers might improve acceptance by developing a «Social licence to Operate» approach.

As the campaign group People and Planet points out, universities help provide fossil fuel corporations not only with expertise but also with a «social licence to operate» (9).

City by city, town by town, we are scaling up a powerful movement of citizens across the world who take away everything the fossil fuel industry needs to grow and survive: its social licence, its political licence, and its money.

The donations, which continue today, mean BP has its flower petal logo hanging around the gallery and, according to campaigners at Platform, provides them with a «social licence to operate» by making them appear socially conscious and respectable.

The fossil fuel narrative in this article tackles the myths that tend to give a degree of social licence to new coal mines and gasfields.

If it were acknowledged up front that the output from all those new projects is intended for export, surely that would remove a lot of the social licence for new extraction projects.

about The Politics of Shale Gas in Eastern Europe: Energy Security, Contested Technologies and the Social Licence to Frack

From London to Paris, Barcelona to Stockholm, we're revelling in the many powerful ways people have found this week to show that fossil fuels have no social licence: divest, defund, desponsor, disrupt!

We campaign to take away everything the fossil fuel industry needs to grow and survive: their social licence, their political licence, and their money.

It features two new cases: a Golden Rules Case, in which the highest practicable standards are adopted, gaining industry a «social licence to operate»; and its counterpart, in which the tide turns against unconventional gas as constraints prove too difficult to overcome.