Contested claims over space and identity between fishers and the oil industry in Mexico

Quist, Liina-Maija; Nygren, Anja

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.05.015

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“…Although oil and gas production in the Jubilee field has contributed immensely to the economic development of Ghana, the mining activities have also impacted on diverse ecosystems of mangrove swamps and freshwater swamp through contaminated streams and degradation of biodiversity in nearby com-Journal of Power and Energy Engineering munities such as Ahanta West, Shama, Nema East/west, Jomoro, Elembelle and Sekondi-Takoradi [25]. In some other instances, the oil and gas production has created angling of about 500 m, which is a preventive tool adopted by these oil and gas producing companies to restrict the populace from accessing the mining area; a major recipe for conflict [26] [27] [28]. Meanwhile, a few mentions have been made in the extant literature on the effectiveness of measures adopted to mitigate the environmental impacts of oil and gas production in the Jubilee fields of Ghana. This study, therefore, aims to evaluate the environmental effects of oil and gas exploration in the Western Region of Ghana.…”

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Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Exploitation: Issues of Compliance, Cost of Production, and Community Awareness

Arthur¹

2020

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This study assessed the effectiveness of mitigation measures adopted to address the environmental effects of oil and gas industries from the perspective of compliance, cost of production, and community awareness. The research applied a case study through multi-method-qualitative and quantitative approaches. The target population of 547,368 people involved people in Takoradi, Shama and Newtown communities. A sample size of 150 was selected and categorised under 36% for Shama, 30% for Newtown and 34% for Takoradi. A combination of probability (simple random) and non-probability (cluster and convenience) sampling frames were used to access the respondents for the study. Data collection tools were limited to questionnaires and interview sessions. The descriptive statistics, Relative Importance Index (RII) and significance testing using a one-sample t-test module guided the analysis. Interview sessions were compiled into transcripts and later categorized into themes that directly reflected the patterns of the questions on the questionnaire. The conclusion rated major decisions in mitigating oil and gas impacts on the environment as first for conscious effort to package fuel and other chemicals in safe storages, followed by the use of best road systems to reduce the risk of accidents, then application of strict rules and regulations to curb impacts and lastly capacity building for participants in the oil and gas production industry. While significant measures have been adopted to mitigate the effects of oil and gas exploration, there remain challenges with effectiveness as a result of weakness in community involvement efforts, lack of motivation, weak laws and regulations and loss of respect. For effectiveness in reducing the challenges to mitigate the environmental impacts of the oil and gas production activity, policymakers, as well as the practitioners in the oil production industry, are advised to motivate people into buying into their policy to reduce such impacts.

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Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Exploitation: Issues of Compliance, Cost of Production, and Community Awareness

Arthur¹

2020

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“…In Australia, the "petroleum safety zones" surrounding offshore platforms extend up to 500 m from the outer edge of any well or structure (Commonwealth of Australia, 2010), while the exclusion zone around a drilling platform in the Jubilee Field in Ghana is five nautical miles (Chalfin, 2018). In 2003, Mexico created an "area of exclusion" of 5,794 km 2 around oil platforms in the Campeche region of the Gulf of Mexico (Quist and Nygren, 2015).…”

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Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms as Novel Ecosystems: A Global Perspective

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Offshore oil and gas platforms are found on continental shelves throughout the world's oceans. Over the course of their decades-long lifespans , these platforms become ecologically important artificial reefs, supporting a variety of marine life. When offshore platforms are no longer active they are decommissioned, which usually requires the removal of the entire platform from the marine environment, destroying the artificial reef that has been created and potentially resulting in the loss of important ecosystem services. While some countries allow for these platforms to be converted into artificial reefs under Rigs-to-Reefs programs, they face significant resistance from various stakeholders. The presence of offshore platforms and the associated marine life alters the ecosystem from that which existed prior to the installation of the platform, and there may be factors which make restoration of the ecosystem unfeasible or even detrimental to the environment. In these cases, a novel ecosystem has emerged with potentially significant ecological value. In restoration ecology, ecosystems altered in this way can be classified and managed using the novel ecosystems concept, which recognizes the value of the new ecosystem functions and services and allows for the ecosystem to be managed in its novel state, instead of being restored. Offshore platforms can be assessed under the novel ecosystems concept using existing decommissioning decision analysis models as a base. With thousands of platforms to be decommissioned around the world in coming decades, the novel ecosystems concept provides a mechanism for recognizing the ecological role played by offshore platforms.

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“…117 (Diario Oficial, 2003). The justification offered for this rule was that it contributed to security enhancement and the prevention of terrorist attacks; however, one of its main aims seems to have been to avoid offshore confrontations, thus ensuring undisturbed oil production (Quist and Nygren, 2015). In 2014, the Mexican government opened the para-estatal oil company, Pemex, partly to private investment as a result of energy law reform (Diario Oficial, 2014a,b).…”

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“…Second, through strict regulation of access to the marine zone of exclusion, the offshore was constructed as an isolated space of oil production to reduce the pressure of political confrontation. Third, by obscuring the links between global projects of hydrocarbon production and local experiences of resource exclusion, the oil industry decreased the opportunities for human-rights, social-justice, and other civic-advocate movements to claim compensation for local communities for burdens caused by exploration, and to campaign for a fairer distribution of benefits gained through oil extraction (Breglia, 2013;Quist and Nygren, 2015).…”

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“…In recent years, Mexico's partly privatized oil industry has radically expanded oil exploration and oil extraction in the coastal and offshore spaces of the Gulf of Mexico. Small-scale fishers in the coast of Tabasco are highly concerned about the future of fishing given the intensified conflict with the oil industry over sea space (Quist and Nygren, 2015). According to the fishers, "el pescado migra, y no sabemos si vuelve o no" (the fish migrate and we don't know if they return), as Julio, one of the small-scale fishers explained.…”

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Debating the unknowns of marine oil exploration in Mexico

Quist

Nygren

2019

The Extractive Industries and Society

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Marine extraction accounts for one third of the world's hydrocarbon production. Several analyses suggest that seismic surveys employed in oil exploration harm marine life; however, their long-term impacts have not been extensively studied. We examine debates between fishers, the oil industry, and governmental authorities over the effects of oil explorations in Tabasco, Mexico. The study employs ideas from historical ontology in tracing the contested production of truth-claims about exploration in the context of scientific uncertainty. It shows how actors, through their different engagements with the sea, and with different degrees of power, frame claims about the relations between exploration and fish. We argue that fishers, through their efforts to "think like fish" produce situated knowledges about the effects of oil exploration. They explain a disappearance of fish by their understanding that seismic surveys disturb fish migration, impair the hearing of fish and cause fish death. Oil company and governmental representatives frame the impacts of oil exploration as insignificant by separating environmental and social dimensions, by isolating individual exploration events, and by arguing that possible effects are transitional. Due to scientific indeterminacy, oil exploration is malleable in the hands of powerful political representations that understate its possible impacts on marine socio-environments.

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Contested claims over space and identity between fishers and the oil industry in Mexico

Cited by 38 publications

References 24 publications

Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Exploitation: Issues of Compliance, Cost of Production, and Community Awareness

Mitigating the Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Exploitation: Issues of Compliance, Cost of Production, and Community Awareness

Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms as Novel Ecosystems: A Global Perspective

Debating the unknowns of marine oil exploration in Mexico

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