Licence:

The timeline illustrates three different types of ‘licences’, drawing on the ‘SAP model’:

• Legal licences: These are the formal licences the organisation is required to obtain - think of this as the permits and approvals required via regulation, such as environmental licences. In our timeline, we have captured court cases as part of the legal licence.
• Political licences: These licences imply political support – or lack thereof – for a project, organisation or industry, and the endorsement by voters of that government’s agenda when they are elected/re-elected.
• Social licences: A social licence refers to an assumed social acceptance of a project, organisation or industry in the absence of opposition. That is, social licences are said to exist or not depending on whether stakeholders support or oppose the project.

Scale:

Scale is used to filter events and issues at geographical levels of international, national, state, and regional and local.

Issue:

The timeline illustrates eight key themes informing stakeholder debate and views as emerged from our document analysis and over 40 in-depth interviews from a range of stakeholder groups. These themes illustrate the grounds on which the social – and in some cases, legal – licences of the mine were contested.

Boycotts:

This captures companies who responded to the Market Forces campaign targeting the Carmichael Project. Many of these companies had not been explicitly approached to work on the project itself. Companies’ responses were not always directly related to the project specifically, in that some companies responded with a broader fossil fuels or climate change policy.