TY - JOUR
TI - Procedural justice in wind facility siting: Recommendations for state-led siting processes
AU - Ottinger, G
AU - Hargrave, T
AU - Hopson, E
T2 - Energy Policy
AB - Evidence suggests that state control of wind facility siting decisions fosters new project development more effectively than local control, yet the literature suggests that affected citizens tend to be more fairly represented in local siting processes. We argue that successful renewable energy policy must satisfy both the need for new project development and the obligation to procedural justice. To suggest how it can do so, we analyze existing state- and county-level siting processes in Washington state, finding that both fall short on measures of procedural justice. To overcome this limitation and address the tension between procedural justice and project development, we then propose a collaborative governance approach to wind facility siting, in which state governments retain ultimate authority over permitting decisions but encourage and support local-level deliberations as the primary means of making those decisions. Such an approach, we argue, would be more just, facilitate wind development by addressing community concerns constructively and result in better projects through the input of diverse stakeholders.
DA - 2014/02//
PY - 2014
VL - 65
SP - 662
EP - 669
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513009907
DO - 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.09.066
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Land-Based Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Environmental Justice
KW - Stakeholder Engagement
ER -