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Creating A Public Plan For New York’S Great Lakes Offshore Wind Power: A Strategy For Energy And Economic Development, Dwight E. Kanyuck, Robert S. Berger
Creating A Public Plan For New York’S Great Lakes Offshore Wind Power: A Strategy For Energy And Economic Development, Dwight E. Kanyuck, Robert S. Berger
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This report evaluates the legal and policy considerations required for developing the energy resource of New York's Great Lakes Offshore Wind (NYGLOW). The potential economic development, environmental and energy benefits of NYGLOW are discussed and a strategy for siting, environmental review, and incentives to gain public acceptance and attract significant investment in NYGLOW is recommended, drawing on approaches used for developing Offshore Wind elsewhere in North America. The approaches of New Jersey, Texas, and Ontario are examined in some detail. In addition, the Quebec Provincial economic development model of purchasing wind power and requiring a local manufacturing component is discussed. …
Competitive Supragovernmental Regulation: How Could It Be Democratic?, Errol E. Meidinger
Competitive Supragovernmental Regulation: How Could It Be Democratic?, Errol E. Meidinger
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This paper explores the possibility that a developing form of regulatory governance is also sketching out a new form of anticipatory regulatory democracy. 'Competitive supra-governmental regulation' is largely driven by non-state actors and is therefore commonly viewed as suffering a democracy deficit. However, because it stresses broad participation, intensive deliberative procedures, responsiveness to state law and widely accepted norms, and competition among regulatory programs to achieve effective implementation and widespread public acceptance, this form of regulation appears to stand up relatively well under generally understood criteria for democratic governance. Nonetheless, a more satisfactory evaluation will require a much better understanding …