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  • 标题:Environmental damage arising from oil operations in Niger Delta of Nigeria: How not to continually live with their specific impact on population and ecology
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  • 作者:Nelson Takon
  • 期刊名称:International Journal of Development and Sustainability
  • 印刷版ISSN:2186-8662
  • 出版年度:2014
  • 卷号:3
  • 期号:9
  • 页码:1878-1893
  • 出版社:International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS)
  • 摘要:Oil operations and their impact on environment remains a contentious issue in the relationship between oil communities, oil companies and governments in Developing countries, and less so in advanced economies with oil resources and vibrant civil societies.In Nigeria, the global debate on the environment and sustainability resonates with its citizens, and since post-2000 crystallizedNiger Delta politics around local oil-related environmental damage as a conflict issue in itself and by itself. In this paper, I examine and elaborate on the role of government, transnational oil companies and local oil theft in environmental degradation, and steps down analysis from the larger debate into the specific impact focusing on the nature of gas flaring, oil spills andpipeline network/sabotage. Drawing from eclectic data gathering method -local documentation, participatory observation and elite interviewing technique ¨C, ample empirical evidences suggest that beside other human actions in this region, the effect of oiloperations has substantial consequences on populations and ecology. This paper concludes that, though oil holds out a vision of development, leaves detrimental effect on the Niger Delta environment. In this context, policy shift from fossil-based energy system to the uptake of renewable energy technologies is inevitably a sine qua non.
  • 关键词:Oil operations in Niger Delta of Nigeria; Oil-led environmental degradation; Consequences on population and ecology; Fossil-based energy regime; Renewable energy Technologies
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