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Originally Posted by peter12
It was a colossal strategic error for governments to talk about social license as part of an overall climate change mitigation strategy.
As I have said before, we can do our part to reduce emissions while still exporting our natural gas and oil products.
Social license is really just another form of NIMBYism and governments should not have entertained it for a second.
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Well that and the government vastly underestimated the consultation issue. There was no way FN groups were going to just sit back and allow a legal precedent to be set for "meaningful consultation," without trying to get as much as they can out of it, and I can't really blame them for that even if it sucks for everyone else.