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Could SONGS offer a sightline to solving our nuclear waste dilemma?
In its recently published book, Resolving Energy and Land Conflicts, CBI tackled one of the toughest and perhaps most intractable land use and energy dilemmas: where should we put the nuclear waste that is building up through decades of generation from our fleet of nuclear power plants? There is no licensed permanent repository for nuclear waste in the U.S., but a settlement agreement in California to relocate fuel from the decommissioned San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) may offer important lessons on how to find temporary or permanent locations to store nuclear waste. In this blog post, CBI Senior Mediator Catherine Morris draws on CBI's land use and energy siting expertise to propose a roadmap for successful collaboration to address this challenge.
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Collaboration and Offshore Wind Development
Offshore wind development is rapidly accelerating in U.S waters – and diverse new and traditional users, and their interests, need to be balanced. Senior Mediator Bennett Brooks and Managing Director Patrick Field suggest that processes must accommodate substantial uncertainty as agencies, stakeholders, and developers venture into previously uncharted waters. They argue that collaboration among participating agencies and across jurisdictions is key to sustaining cooperation and trust, and avoiding costly and painful conflict as offshore wind development expands.
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Energy Siting Can Be Incendiary
As energy extraction and production technology has advanced, a whole host of issues around siting arose across stakeholders. CBI outlines seven key lessons from mitigating these types of conflicts and announces a new book.
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CBI works with EITI Implementing Countries to Strengthen Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration
The global Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) turned to CBI for assistance in helping a network of government officials organize into a working coalition.
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Human Rights, Land Disputes, and Problem-Solving in the Honduras & Guatemala Palm Oil Sectors
Sometimes designing a legitimate dispute resolution process for a company requires examining both their responsibilities as well as deeper structural problems. This is no easy thread to tie.
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Breaking the Natural Resources Gridlock with Consensus Building
A comprehensive, collaborative process built by stakeholders can create solutions to conflicts over natural resource scarcity in California.
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Community protocols: can they be a tool for more balanced interest based negotiation between companies, communities and governments?
Based on CBI's work to better understand how greater transparency around extractives revenues might affect Indigenous Peoples, this blog explores whether community protocols could be used to help bridge the gap among community members, government agencies, and extractive companies.
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Natural Resources on Indigenous Lands, and the Growing Transparency Movement
CBI publishes a report on how increasing transparency globally around extractive industries might affect Indigenous Peoples.
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Preliminary Inquiry into Indigenous Peoples’ Participation in EITI Multi-Stakeholder Groups
Throughout the world, Indigenous Peoples have historically suffered disproportionately from negative impacts of extractive activities in their territories. The global transparency movement has the potential to play a part in righting the past by supporting Indigenous Peoples’ greater participation in resource decision-making.
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Participatory Energy Planning in Chile
CBI helps formulate Energia 2050, a shared roadmap for a cleaner, cheaper, and more accessible energy future for Chile.
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A Mutual Gains Approach to Global Supply Chain Management — Why Should Companies Care?
CBI's work with communities and international oil companies in the Niger Delta has underscored the enormous value the Mutual Gains Approach can offer for improving relationships and results for both sets of stakeholders.
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Who Gets What on Our Shrinking Planet?
CBI’s 20th Anniversary Symposium brings together an extraordinary, global group of colleagues to generate ideas on how collaboration can help mitigate and resolve present and future conflicts.
