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Understanding What is at Stake
At a Glance
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The first step toward planning a resource corridor is to assess the players involved and determine how extractive-financed infrastructure investments fit into local, national, and regional infrastructure plans.
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Planners would do well to consider the industries related to upstream, side stream, and downstream processes, and the potential for better connecting these with extractive projects, thus creating deeper linkages with the domestic economy.
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Identifying shared infrastructure platforms can promote economies of scale, potentially reduce environmental disruption, and create the basis for cost-sharing arrangements.
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A well-functioning resource corridor requires not only shared use arrangements for the transport infrastructure involved, but significant hard and soft infrastructure investments from the various stakeholders, including the government.
Key Resources
Topic Briefing
Similar to the case of transport infrastructure, the government’s first step in planning a resource corridor is to identify the relevant actors and assess how infrastructure investments financed by the extractive industry fit into the local, national, and regional infrastructure plans. The government must carefully review whether the geographic area surrounding the transport infrastructure has growth potential, and what resources the various stakeholders need to unlock this potential.