What issues are most important to you? (list in order of importance)
1. Ecological Impact issues due to the construction of this port. This being the most important because the disruption of ecological settings will begin as soon as construction begins, so no room to try anything else to minimize this effect.
2. The industry mix that Harborco will be allowed to introduce. Even though there are legal limitations, “dirty” industries still cause short and long term havoc on the environment.
3. Voting on other issues strategically. While not trying to antagonize potential allies, an effort needs to be made to have a clear “win” on the issues, in hopes that other constituent environmental groups are impressed by the results and potentially boost contributions to the League.
What is your BATNA? Reservation Price? Target?
In this situation, it is very important for me to realize that I have a very weak BATNA. The BATNA is a government sanctioned degradation of the environment – Harborco is allowed to build a deepwater port including primarily dirty industries and causing serious damage to the ecology.
For this reason, it is going to be very important for me to be able to influence the proposal, if at all it goes through. The target will be for me to convince the members to improve the ecological conditions around this site and restrict Harborco to only allow Clean industries to be built here. However, since my BATNA is weak, I will have to compromise on certain things, so that the project is not a complete disaster (meaning, dirty plants and serious damage to the ecology).
What are your sources of power?
On the face value, it appears that I have almost no power. Since support from all members isn’t needed, Harborco can
