Mot fossilfritt? En undersökning av det kommunala beslutfattandet kring GO4LNG projektet i Göteborg

Sammanfattning: The aim of this essay is to understand how contemporary political decisions on issues connected to the environment and climate change are framed to make them governable. We base this aim on the perception that these issues present a conflict of responsibilities for governments. To reach the aim we focus on the municipal decision making concerning the LNG terminal in Gothenburg, Sweden. Through a framing analysis using three discourses of global environmental governance, and the governmentalities on which they are built, we seek to understand the ideas that have been at the forefront in the decision making. Our results show that LNG and the project have been framed mainly by using the discourses of Green Governmentality and Eco-Modernization. These frames see Natural Gas as a solution to an environmental problem, and the EU as the legitimate decisionmakers on the issue. Together the frames render the political action to not stop the terminal as the logical decision. Through this framing local solutions, long-term environmental effects and global justice perspectives are obscured. By incorporating multi-level governance into biopower we see how the framing renders the EU the power to make legitimate decisions. The EU decision making on the other hand is based on Advanced Liberal Government.