Waller et al. (2025): Shoreline demos: The contested place of the public in a marine carbon removal trial
Laurie Waller, Emily Cox and Rob Bellamy, IN: Global Environmental Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486251380158
This paper analyses controversy over a marine carbon removal trial in St Ives Bay, UK, and how place-based demonstrations contested the proposed experiment and the affected public. Based on ethnographic research with communities mobilised by local protests, the authors examine how the proposed ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) “test” was recast as an intervention that would directly affect the Bay’s communities. They describe how protests brought into being a local network that produced evidence of potential harms, lobbied for regulatory intervention and proposed counter-experiments.