The Expanding Circle of Stakeholders: Shale Gas, Information Flows, and the Social License to Operate
Article from: OGEL 3 (2014), in Unconventional Oil and Gas
Abstract
Changes in information flows, outreach, and social media have vastly expanded the number and locations of interested parties who consider themselves stakeholders in shale gas development and offers them opportunity and involvement as perceived equal stakeholders. The inclusion of these new parties - with agendas often quite different from traditional stakeholder sets, living far from shale deposits, and with limited direct experience or investment - can complicate the granting of social license to operate. This issue is of increasing importance as countries such as South Africa, ...