ABSTRACT Recent shifts in energy infrastructure siting have seen movement toward more procedurally just participatory decision-making processes. The energy justice literature emphasises both the normative need for fairness and justice in energy decision-making, while recognising the instrumental value of procedural justice for more favourable siting outcomes. Against a global nuclear backdrop of historically closed decision-making and public controversy, Canada’s high-level nuclear waste siting process has sought to offer a more participatory and community-driven process. Drawing from ethnographic observation and interviews in Ontario, Canada, this paper seeks to evaluate the NWMO’s siting process according to principles of energy justice, focusing on how local context and nuclear landscape may problematise normative applications of procedural justice. Through this analysis, I address a perceived deficit in studies of the spatial implications of procedural justice, examining how local geography can shape how procedurally just a process is, at times translating well-intended policy into unintended outcomes. Ultimately, I argue that effective mobilisation of local knowledge for more localised practices is key to informing fairer and more just siting processes and eventual outcomes.

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空间化程序正义：核废料选址的公平性和地方知识动员

摘要 最近能源基础设施选址的转变已经看到朝着更加程序化的参与式决策过程的方向发展。能源正义文献强调能源决策中对公平和正义的规范需求，同时承认程序正义对于更有利的选址结果的工具价值。在历来封闭决策和公众争议的全球核背景下，加拿大的高水平核废料选址过程试图提供一个更具参与性和社区驱动的过程。本文根据在加拿大安大略省的人种学观察和访谈，试图根据能源公平原则评估 NWMO 的选址过程，关注当地背景和核景观如何可能对程序正义的规范应用产生问题。通过这种分析，我解决了程序正义空间影响研究中的一个明显缺陷，研究了当地地理如何塑造一个过程的程序公正程度，有时将善意的政策转化为意想不到的结果。归根结底，我认为有效地调动当地知识以实现更本地化的实践是告知更公平、更公正的选址过程和最终结果的关键。