Negotiating Water and Technology—Competing Expectations and Confronting Knowledges in the Case of the Coca Codo Sinclair in Ecuador
Abstract
:1. Background
2. Expectations Shaping Energy Futures, Technological Choices and Policy
3. Ecuadorian Energy Policy and the Case of the Coca Codo Sinclair (CCS)
3.1. ‘Buen Vivir’ and the Grand Energy Transition
3.2. The Coca Codo Sinclair
4. Competing, Parallel and Confronting Expectations around the CCS
4.1. The Government’s Logic: Economic Growth, Energy Security and Buen Vivir
“We, rather than being suppliers of infrastructure, say that to produce electricity, the intention is to be an exporter of energy. A vision of 20 years from now is for Ecuador to be a regional supplier of electricity, that is, not to develop infrastructure or equipment technologies but selling energy.”
“Advantageously, for the size of our country, we have sufficient and extensive resources that logically allow us to make a strong investment to transform the energy matrix. […] We consider that the [local] impact is quite low compared to the benefits that Coca Sinclair brings”.(a representative of MEER)
4.2. Technological Optimism Underpinning Regulatory Practices and Regional Development
“It is important to continuously enhance the knowledge of technology and professional development that will be even more relevant in the future. […] There is a very clear policy of the government’s electricity system.”.(representative of CENACE)
“Here, within Ecuador, the opportunities for technological development entail all the maintenance that we have to take care of. [...] We have to be technically sustainable to be able to repair all components. […] All this is our responsibility that we are going to develop, and it also is an opportunity to understand the latest-generation hydrodynamic profiles”.(a representative of ARCONEL)
4.3. Expertise Outside and Beyond the State: The Value of the Multiple Uses of Water
4.4. Mundane Expectations and Hopes for Enhanced Local Development
5. Conclusions: Expectations Embedded in Diverging Socio-Technical Imaginaries
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Instrumental | Functionalist-Pragmatic | Intrinsic Value | Symbolic | |
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TECHNOLOGY |
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1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | |
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Real GDP (constant prices, million USD 2011) | 74,111 | 93,842 | 118,922 | 140,492 | 160,097 ** |
Real GDP per capita (constant prices, USD 2010) | 3721 | 3679 | 4287 | 4657 | 5353 |
Population (million) | 10.22 | 12.63 | 13.74 | 14.93 | 16.14 |
Total GHG emissions (kton CO2eq) | 45,300 | 42,210 | 53,240 | 65,970 | 67,940 ** |
GHG emissions (kton CO2eq) per GDP | 0.59 | 0.45 | 0.45 | 0.47 | 0.43 ** |
GHG emissions (kton CO2eq) per capita | 4.44 | 3.34 | 3.87 | 4.42 | 4.41 ** |
Oil consumption (t of barrels/day) | 97 | 134 | 159 | 243 | 251 |
Oil production (t of barrels/day) | 285 | 395 | 532 | 486 | 504 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleTeräväinen, Tuula. 2019. "Negotiating Water and Technology—Competing Expectations and Confronting Knowledges in the Case of the Coca Codo Sinclair in Ecuador" Water 11, no. 3: 411. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030411
APA StyleTeräväinen, T. (2019). Negotiating Water and Technology—Competing Expectations and Confronting Knowledges in the Case of the Coca Codo Sinclair in Ecuador. Water, 11(3), 411. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11030411