ABSTRACT
This chapter describes cultural resource management applies to the energy development goals of beneficially guiding local growth and mitigating the adverse impacts of new energy facilities. It focuses on interviews undertaken during August and October of 1976 with representatives of several energy companies. The chapter illustrates the roles that energy companies can play while assisting community efforts at growth management. It discusses factors which appear to underlie corporate willingness to mitigate adverse impacts of energy facilities. The chapter suggests how communities can influence company actions in their vicinity. It deals with suggestions about how communities and anthropologists might collaborate to alleviate sociocultural impacts of energy development. Energy companies can play a role in the construction or operation of community facilities and services in host communities. Good public relations are valuable to corporations because they influence sales and income, congressional legislation, anti-trust deliberation, rate setting, policies of governmental regulatory agencies, and other factors vital to the future of any energy company.
