As a result, Chevron is moving in where local companies fear to tread.
FORBES: Chevron Digs Deeper Into Eastern Europe For Shale Gas
Firstly on social care - local authorities fear that multi-party talks on reforming the system of social funding have stalled.
But both national and local officials fear that the resulting job losses would cause instability, so progress has been modest.
Local traders fear a supermarket on the outskirts of the town would pull people away from the centre and kill off business.
Local governments fear that they will again be left with the tab.
Yet the radicalism that some local businessmen fear may be limited.
As they bury their dead and watch efforts to recover more bodies, local residents fear that more violence from the conflict raging in the neighboring country will spill over into the town.
Critics of the scheme fear local stations will not be commercially viable and will struggle to attract public interest.
Plans for a supermarket in a Cornish seaside town have prompted objections from residents who fear local shops will suffer.
Abu Wali and his family have been threatened by different groups not happy with his independent activities, which cut into their own campaign to win local support or fear.
In some places this sparked vociferous campaigns by groups who fear their local hospitals will lose services.
But novices need not fear: local dive masters know how to best match the site to the prevailing conditions.
It is personal experience that matters most in assessing crime at the local level, where fear of it has fallen most.
ECONOMIST: Fear of crime is falling just when crime itself is not
Police chiefs, enraged by the killing of nine colleagues, overcame their fear of local political bosses and arrested a party chief, Emmanuel Karisa Maitha.
Ms Villiers said she was "absolutely convinced" that the proposed line would "not be nearly as negative for local communities as they fear it will".
Many local councils used to fear that regional government was a big threat to them as it would suck up a lot of their power.
The concern stems from a fear that local courts would seek to apply aspects of Shariah law when trying to reach difficult decisions between family members who are Muslim.
FORBES: South Dakota's Ill-Considered Attack On Islamic Financing
Many of those who did vote muttered that they only did so for fear that local-government officials would not help them with future permits if they did not have the right stamp on their registration cards.
"The local pub has nothing to fear, the responsible off licence has nothing to fear, " she said.
Far from menacing local cultures, as some fear, globalization has, by his accounting, been good for cultural diversity.
Brash new money is squeezing out old, and there is a real fear among the local inhabitants that both islands are becoming dangerously similar to the over-developed, glitzy Hamptons.
Here lemurs and other wildlife showed no fear of the local Tandroy tribesmen who lived a traditional life with the zebu cattle that form the basis of their wealth.
ECONOMIST: Madagascar's natural history: Tales in a twist | The
"Otherwise, with no roads, and fear of attack from local militias in unstable areas, many people will be effectively disenfranchised, " she said.
Labour rebels, who fear greater freedom from local authorities could mean a "back-door" return to academic selection at age 11, want a national code on admissions to be made legally binding.
BBC: NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Kelly defiant over school reforms
Under the new grant funding regime, that "top-up" would be a replaced by flat payments right across a local authority area which small schools fear could make them proportionately worse off compared with bigger ones in larger communities.
In Western Europe, however, fear of domination has made local firms wary of an alliance with the American behemoth.
There was never a fear of neighbors or other local residents.
FORBES: "Our Hearts Are Broken Today" - President Barack Obama
Although Mr Duke insists he can win this small, conservative district, Bernie Pinsonat, a local pollster, thinks there is nothing to fear.
In 1994 most local governments began accepting taxes in kind, for fear of otherwise driving companies into bankruptcy.
That's exactly what the chamber and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, an alliance of local chambers of commerce and other business associations, fear.
应用推荐