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.

本文命名了资源开发和开采的一个独特的时间段——嗡嗡声阶段。嗡嗡声阶段将注意力引向重大项目的推测、探索、评估和准备的多年（有时是几十年），包括导致运营的所有事情，无论项目是否真正投入运营。生活和工作在当前和潜在资源开采、运输和加工区域的人们会体验到嗡嗡声阶段的社会影响。讨论了在不列颠哥伦比亚省（加拿大）基蒂马特举行的液化天然气 (LNG) 开发研讨会，以说明和概述嗡嗡声阶段的社会影响。提出了六个临时主题作为未来研究的可能领域：希望和疲劳；物质和社会变化；影响的分布；情感影响；想象的未来；还有什么没说。