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This commentary advocates for a wider proliferation of the energy justice concept in Arctic energy research. It maintains that the concept provides a novel, human-centric approach to evaluating issues stemming from energy exploration, development, production, and use. The commentary opens with a brief survey of the human dimensions of the changing Arctic before linking them to energy activities in the region. It then proposes energy justice as a conceptual and contextual tool, intending to inform policy and practice.
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For example, the Russian oil giant Rosneft postponed its operations in the South Kara Sea until 2016 (Staff Offshore, 2015 and Statoil will not continue its exploratory drilling campaign in the Barents Sea in 2015 (Reuters 2015). On the other hand, both ENI Norge and Gazprom Neft appear to continue their largely developed Goliat and Prirazlomnoe projects in 2015 (ENI 2015) (Gazprom 2015).
Although interdisciplinary in nature, energy justice has the closest ontological relation with philosophy and ethics.
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This commentary was written with the support from the “Indigenous Peoples and Resource Extraction in the Arctic - Evaluating Ethical Guidelines” project, funded by the Norwegian MFA and administered by the Árran Lule Sami Centre.
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Sidortsov, R., Sovacool, B. Left out in the cold: energy justice and Arctic energy research. J Environ Stud Sci 5, 302–307 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-015-0241-0
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