Regulation of Operational Pollution from Offshore Oil and Gas Activities in Ghana: Tales from Norway
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2014-05-26
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Operational pollution from offshore oil and gas exploration and production has become a major environmental problem for governments. Regulators have adopted either prescriptive or performance-based regulation to address this problem. This thesis examines both approaches and argues that performance-based regulation is best suited for the purpose of regulating operational pollution.
The thesis further identifies essential elements of effective performance-based regulation and identifies the key elements in the Norwegian regime for regulating offshore operational pollution including: the use of performance-based regulation; comprehensive legislative arrangement; and a regulator with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. The thesis then explores the extent to which these elements identified are present in the Ghanaian regime to regulate operational pollution. The thesis concludes by recommending a transfer of the key elements from Norway to Ghana to ensure that an effective regime is in place for regulating operational pollution from the offshore oil and gas industry going forward.
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Owusu, E. K. (2014). Regulation of Operational Pollution from Offshore Oil and Gas Activities in Ghana: Tales from Norway (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/27588