Good Oil, Clean Waters? Ghana's Oil Decade and Environmental Protection
Article from: OGEL 3 (2021), in Oil Spills
Abstract
In 2010, Ghana joined the emerging oil and gas producers in West Africa. Petroleum production presented the country with the opportunity to redeem its economic status - having just recovered from being a heavily indebted poor country. Yet, the country also had the herculean task of balancing the maximization of this new income stream with maintaining high environmental standards. Creating the requisite environment for oil and gas production requires, for example, good contracts, formidable legislation, and institutions. Whiles the oil sector seems to have enjoyed certain ...