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Originally Posted by Regorium
What you're describing is political capital.
Social license is generally described as obtaining approval of the local people.
The issue is that it's been co-opted to mean "approval of 100% of the population". Ie. hardcore environmentalist groups somehow have veto power (whether legally or illegally) over any project.
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Agreed.
"Social license" isn't a thing, which is kind of what I was getting at, but maybe didn't explain my position well enough. You can't purchase social license by doing things the environmentalists want, because they are insane and are never satisfied. You aren't purchasing a license, you are being extorted by a party that has no intent on living up to its side of the bargain, because the goalposts always get changed.
The way it appears to me, social license is a bunch of arm waving and posturing to warm up politicians to spend political capital on a controversial decision.