2021, Sax, Marieka, and Daniel Tubb. “The Buzz Phase of Resource Extraction: Liquefied Natural Gas in Kitimat, British Columbia.” The Extractive Industries and Society (Volume 8, Issue 34): 1–11. (Co-author, 40% contribution). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100938. PDF.
This article names a distinct temporal period in resource development and extraction—the buzz phase. The buzz phase draws attention to the years (sometimes decades) of speculation, exploration, assessment, and preparation for a major project, including everything that leads up to operations, whether or not a project actually becomes operational. The social impacts of the buzz phase are experienced by people living and working in zones of present and potential resource extraction, transportation, and processing. A workshop on liquefied natural gas (LNG) development carried out in Kitimat, British Columbia (Canada), is discussed to illustrate and outline the social impacts of the buzz phase. Six provisional themes are proposed as possible areas for future research: hope and fatigue; material and social changes; distribution of impacts; affective impacts; imagined futures; and what is left unsaid.