BER 79-2 Competing Environmental and Infrastructure Goods
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/94#BER_79-2_Competing_Environmental_and_Infrastructure_Goods
Properties
Instance of
CompetingPublicGoodsTensionState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetingPublicGoodsTensionState
Active period
Throughout the landfill redesign process and public controversy period
Affected parties
Adjacent property owners
Engineers A and B
General public
Town council
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Subject
Tension between society's need for landfill capacity and environmental protection of adjacent properties and groundwater
Terminated by
Public authority's final decision on landfill design approach
Triggering event
Town council's inability to find alternate disposal site, requiring higher-contour redesign of existing landfill
Urgency level
medium
Source Evidence
Source text
there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects
Text references
professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs
there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects
TTL
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case94:BER_79-2_Competing_Environmental_and_Infrastructure_Goods a proeth:CompetingPublicGoodsTensionState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "BER 79-2 Competing Environmental and Infrastructure Goods" ;
proeth:activeperiod "Throughout the landfill redesign process and public controversy period" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Adjacent property owners",
"Engineers A and B",
"General public",
"Town council" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "94" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T20:37:32.584640+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "94" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T20:37:32.584640+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects" ;
proeth:stateclass "Competing Public Goods Tension State" ;
proeth:subject "Tension between society's need for landfill capacity and environmental protection of adjacent properties and groundwater" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Public authority's final decision on landfill design approach" ;
proeth:textreferences "professional judgment will be the final arbiter of the best balance between society's needs for certain facilities and the level of environmental degradation which may be unavoidable in filling those basic needs",
"there is no finite answer to the balance or 'trade-off' which is involved in the overall concerns about environmental dangers for particular projects" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Town council's inability to find alternate disposal site, requiring higher-contour redesign of existing landfill" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "medium" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 94 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T20:55:42.362765"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 94 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
94
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T20:37:32.584640+00:00
First case
94
Generated
2026-02-28T20:37:32.584640+00:00
Attributed to
Case 94 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T20:55:42.362765
Generated by
ProEthica Case 94 Extraction