Oil, NGOs & youths
Struggles for resource control in the Niger delta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11905145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Ifeka (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 87 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of African Political Economy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-6244 • E-ISSN: 1740-1720 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03056240108704507 |
| OpenAlex | W2042066767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Niger Delta, one of the world's largest wetlands and the sixth largest exporter of crude oil, is notorious for environmental pollution, poverty and violence. For four decades the Federal Nigerian Government has neglected its obligations to fishing communities in the vicinity of oil wells or facing offshore platforms. Although the Federal Government takes 60% of the dollar sales of crude oil (40% goes to the oil companies), the political class has declined to regulate gas flaring, pipeline maintenance or levels of spillage. Frustrated by their exclusion from the benefits of oil, militant youths attack oil company installations, hi‐jack personnel, and lay waste to villages believed to harbour oil reserves, leaving many homeless. These angry subalterns believe that their communities own and should control of the natural resources in their vicinity. The consequence is an increase of casualties in inter‐communal raids and counter‐raids, in wildfires at spillage sites, and in shootings by ‘mobile police’ when demonstrating youths enter the oil installations that they guard
Business · Delta · Environmental protection · Fishing · Geography · Militant · Natural resource · Niger delta · Petroleum · Political science · Politics · Spillage · Waste management · Engineering · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development · Oil, Gas, and Environmental Issues
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2017 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |