Meeting Environmental Challenges of Oil Production in Nigeria: a Case for Environmental Restoration Funds
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2014-09-29
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Historically, the Nigerian economy has been dependent on oil. Decades of oil production in the Niger Delta, the country’s oil producing region, has degraded the environment. While the need to tackle environmental degradation in oil-producing communities has been widely recognized, existing legal interventions are dispersed and do not focus on environmental restoration.
Against the backdrop of recent scientific studies highlighting the severity of contamination in the region, this thesis makes a legal case for the establishment of an environmental restoration fund as a targeted mechanism to restore the Niger Delta environment. Through the lens of the theory of intergenerational equity, the thesis concludes that the creation of a fund dedicated to environmental restoration will help maintain the environment in a way that supports current oil production, encourages local livelihoods and preserves existing natural resources as a legacy for the future.
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Opara, N. (2014). Meeting Environmental Challenges of Oil Production in Nigeria: a Case for Environmental Restoration Funds (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26872