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Natural Resources and Social ConflictThe State-Corporate Nexus: Trading Social Benefits for Environmental Costs and Localized Vulnerability

Natural Resources and Social Conflict: The State-Corporate Nexus: Trading Social Benefits for... [The road to the Volz farm winds though the rolling foothills of British Columbia’s (BC’s) Peace River region, dotted by cattle farms, bails of hay and oil-pump jacks. The Volz family has grown hay and raised cattle on the picturesque 2000 acre spread for the last 35 years. June Volz taught grade school while her husband Lynn ran a backhoe business, providing services to petroleum companies. In 1983, companies drilled the first oil well on their property. ‘At first, things went quite well,’ said Lynn Volz over iced tea in the family’s modest farmhouse. The family used rents from oil revenue to send their daughters to university. In the early days of extraction, the family had few problems in its relations with companies, and negotiations over payment rates and nuisance issues, such as noise or dust, generally went well. ‘It was almost kind of fun, they’d make an offer and you’d go back and forth. And it was always with respect. It was fine and always got sorted out,’ said Volz (interview, 2009; also, see Arsenault, 2009a). The general tone of negotiations and the attitudes of petroleum companies have shifted since legislative changes helped fuel a boom in unconventional oil extraction beginning in the late 1990s and taking off after 2002. Companies now show ‘a great degree of arrogance’, said Volz, and consistently threaten farmers and other land users with legal action if they complain about extraction activities or company practices (Harvey, 1999).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Natural Resources and Social ConflictThe State-Corporate Nexus: Trading Social Benefits for Environmental Costs and Localized Vulnerability

Part of the International Political Economy Series Book Series
Editors: Schnurr, Matthew A.; Swatuk, Larry A.
Arsenault, Chris
Natural Resources and Social Conflict — Oct 28, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
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978-1-349-33420-9
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193 –214
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10.1057/9781137002464_10
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Abstract

[The road to the Volz farm winds though the rolling foothills of British Columbia’s (BC’s) Peace River region, dotted by cattle farms, bails of hay and oil-pump jacks. The Volz family has grown hay and raised cattle on the picturesque 2000 acre spread for the last 35 years. June Volz taught grade school while her husband Lynn ran a backhoe business, providing services to petroleum companies. In 1983, companies drilled the first oil well on their property. ‘At first, things went quite well,’ said Lynn Volz over iced tea in the family’s modest farmhouse. The family used rents from oil revenue to send their daughters to university. In the early days of extraction, the family had few problems in its relations with companies, and negotiations over payment rates and nuisance issues, such as noise or dust, generally went well. ‘It was almost kind of fun, they’d make an offer and you’d go back and forth. And it was always with respect. It was fine and always got sorted out,’ said Volz (interview, 2009; also, see Arsenault, 2009a). The general tone of negotiations and the attitudes of petroleum companies have shifted since legislative changes helped fuel a boom in unconventional oil extraction beginning in the late 1990s and taking off after 2002. Companies now show ‘a great degree of arrogance’, said Volz, and consistently threaten farmers and other land users with legal action if they complain about extraction activities or company practices (Harvey, 1999).]

Published: Oct 28, 2015

Keywords: Hydrogen Sulphide; Land User; Petroleum Company; Auditor General; Resource Revenue

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