Community Risk Can Kill a Project Before It Breaks Ground

The Risk That Arrives Late—and Costs the Most

In a conventional site selection process, community engagement comes at the end: select the site, announce the project, manage the response. That sequencing made sense when community opposition was rare and permitting was predictable. Neither assumption holds anymore.

Community risk has moved earlier in the process—and for good reason. Opposition that surfaces during public hearings can halt a project that has already cleared land, infrastructure, and incentive hurdles. That is an expensive place to discover a problem.

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