Sentences with phrase «social license»

Any new project these days, and for the foreseeable future, faces obstacles, but perhaps none greater than securing social license.
«I want to see social license for expanded mining in this province, but the Christy Clark government is undercutting public confidence and investor certainty,» said Donaldson.
When Alberta's carbon tax was implemented, the Notley government proclaimed that we would obtain social license which would allow Alberta to develop our energy products and move them unencumbered to the world markets.
Both Progressive Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and Wildrose Leader Brian Jean have always been quick to point to any opposition by environmentalists in British Columbia, aging stars in Hollywood or whomever wherever as evidence that trying to earn social license from citizens of other jurisdictions to get Alberta's oil to world markets is a lost cause.
Such massive projects require social license, NDP leader Tom Mulcair argued.
This seemed ironic, as they'd not had much success themselves with that strategy, but as soon as pipeline opponents in Coastal British Columbia were influential enough to cause the defeat of a government favourable to the Trans Mountain Pipeline, most of the fine talk about social license by Liberals and New Democrats went out the window too.
The death of Louis XIV in 1715 marked the debut of a seven - year period of social license during which France was governed by the hedonistic Philippe d'Orléans, acting as regent for the young Louis XV.
Simply put, social license refers to the level of support for the project from local communities, Indigenous Peoples and stakeholders.
All of this contributes to increased project risk and a general reticence on the part of industry to undertake new projects, particularly in jurisdictions where social license is more difficult to secure.
To secure social license from a wary public and give businesses the certainty they badly need, Alberta will need to continue increasing its carbon price over time — and that commitment needs to be made now.
Shareholders can sell their shares if they feel that their investment isn't being maximized and stakeholders can compromise a company's social license to operate if they believe its commitment to human rights and other issues isn't adequate.
Without that legal infrastructure, companies will find it exceedingly difficult to obtain a social license to operate at the local level.
Another way a company can earn and keep its social license to operate is by a commitment to looking for «win - wins.»
Hence the multiple references in the article to the fact that there is no «social license» for the projects described here.
The hurdles for permits, social licenses, host - government approvals, engineering and construction, and most importantly, financing, are high and going higher.
Like a medieval petty lord demanding a toll for transporting goods across his territory, Coderre has claimed that his municipality can now override federal jurisdiction in blocking national infrastructure under the guise of «social license».
Brian Jean was all over the BC government's refusal to support Trans Mountain calling it a «body blow» to the energy sector and proof that Rachel Notley's climate strategy didn't deliver the social license Alberta needs to move ahead with energy projects because BC «rejected her entire platform.»
It's the pipeline's job to demonstrate it has the social license to proceed.
And btw Brian Jean got it wrong when he said Notley's climate change strategy failed to deliver the social license necessary to guarantee these projects are approved.
The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.
Well, the NDP claims their job - killing carbon tax would provide the so - called «social license» needed to get our much needed pipelines built.
Our energy sector produces some of the most ethical product available in the global marketplace; yet we're told we must pay more to attain a social license.
Recent actions by British Columbia NDP Premier John Horgan makes it appear that the social license Albertans have been shelling out for in the form of a carbon tax, has no credibility or effective ability to gain market access in his jurisdiction.
Now, the United Conservative Party is absolutely committed to getting pipelines built and our resources to market, but the NDP's «social license» argument is complete fiction.
This social license has unfortunately been completely disregarded by the British Columbia government, who obviously do not share the validity of this mythical social entity.
Learning modules include: Produce Supply Chain Logistics; Production Practices; Food Safety and Quality Control; Sales and Marketing; and Sustainability and Social License.
We also heard from Robert Hadler, General Manager of Corporate Affairs at Coles, who welcomed the discussion and acknowledged that Coles (and, by implication, Woolworths) needed to do more to justify their «social license» to operate.
Farmers and agri - businesses need viable commercial conditions, a fair price for produce, land security and a social license to operate.
At the same time there was a marked concurrence in the need to consult broadly with publics and regulators to seek the «social license to operate» that is required before actually carrying out any of the work that was outlined.
As proof - of - concept projects, they will engage local communities and earn the social license needed for innovative science.
According to Executive Director, Kate Hackett, «SFI certification is important to us because it gives us social license to operate.
As the agency's chief economist, Fatih Birol (also the report's lead author) put it in a statement, «If this new industry is to prosper, it needs to earn and maintain its social license to operate.
Cascadians are on the frontlines of revoking fossil fuels» social license, of rejecting and repudiating a too - powerful industry.
The rush to develop this new resource has resulted in numerous environmental challenges, including water and air quality concerns, leading many to question the natural gas industry's environmental record and potentially jeopardizing its social license to operate.
This needs to be removed if the industry is to gain a «social license
As long as Mann & Co keep bleating, «The debate is over», it will be - and those guys lost, because they «did not get the social license necessary to proceed».
Our efforts to expose the deception of the fossil fuel industry and revoke its social license with the public are working, making the move to a 100 % renewable energy future for all possible.
One can only hope that the unfolding tragedies at opposite ends of the world — last week's news that half the Great Barrier Reef is dead from warming waters and this weeks burning of Fort McMurray — fatally erodes what remains of that social license.
But our work will go on until the social license to extract and burn fossil fuels is gone.
It is their hope that with such sponsorships they will secure a social license to continue operations as usual, in place of setting the urgently needed course for a clean energy future.
As more and more schools divest, it will begin to erode the social license of the fossil fuel industry, weakening their political power in Washington, DC and opening up the space for bold climate legislation.
McKibben, in Washington, D.C.: «The fossil fuel industry has behaved with such recklessness... that at this point they deserve to lose their social license, their veneer of respectability.»

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