RETRACTED: Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing Gas Flaring in Nigeria’s Upstream Petroleum Sector and the Need for Overhauling

Olujobi, Olusola Joshua

doi:10.3390/socsci9080132

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“…This prompted the need to promote investment in renewable energy sources through private and public partnerships to promote access to electricity in all nooks and crannies in Nigeria. However, despite legal enactments guiding the operations of the Nigeria power sector, the challenge of sufficient power generation and the guarantee for reliable power supply has remained critical that has called for continuous attention, which justifies the effort put in the current research (Olujobi 2020b).…”

Section: Legal and Regulatory Framework On Renewable Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Olujobi

Ufua

Olokundun

et al. 2021

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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This study explores the need for conversion of wastes to energy for a sustainable power sector and environmental development in Nigeria, to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and to offer incentives for investments in renewable energy sources, and to mitigate the concerns on disposal of hazardous wastes in the country. The study adopts a library-based doctrinal legal research technique with a conceptual approach, relying on existing literature. It explores the potency of existing laws and other legal provisions binding on the practice of waste management to power in Nigeria. Also, it carries out a comparative appraisal of the renewable system through organic wastes to electricity in other countries. The key finding of the study is that if practical measures are taken by the Nigerian government to control waste disposal, it will minimise wastes from the various sources in conformity with the legal and regulatory requirements and this can be utilised to generate electricity. The study proposes a model for converting wastes to electricity to sustain the ever-intensifying demands for energy and to combat ecological issues in Nigeria. The research concludes with recommendations for the fusion of regulations and non-regulatory incentives for conversion of wastes to electricity in Nigeria’s power sector and advocates coherent legal framework on sources of energy with stringent enforcement of energy laws for stable electricity generation and sustainability in Nigeria’s power sector.

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Section: Legal and Regulatory Framework On Renewable Energymentioning

confidence: 99%

Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Olujobi

Ufua

Olokundun

et al. 2021

Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…On the issue of gas flaring, there have been several legal regimes that appear unenforceable. These are: (1) The Gas Flaring (Prohibition and Punishment) Act, 2009, with a gas flaring time limit fixed for 31 st December, 2010; (ii) The Petroleum Industry Bill has set a gas flaring deadline for 2012; (iii) The Gas Flaring Prohibition and Punishment Bill, 2016, set the time limit for gas flaring to December, 2016;(iv) The new Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, 2017, outlawed gas flaring; and (v) The Gas and Associated Gas Re-injection (Amendment Bill) that is pending in the National Assembly (Olujobi, 2020). Lack of political will coupled with the inability of government to divorce vested interests from the governance of downstream sector of the petroleum industry partly account for these ineffectual legal regimes.…”

Section: Nigeria In the Context Of Multinational Framework Of Interventionmentioning

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The Energy Crisis and Environmental Concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria): A Perspective on Public Governance for Climate Action

Ozohu-Suleiman

2021

JPAG

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The inextricable relationship between environment and development is unarguable, and the literature is replete with scientific evidence of the interdependence between the two phenomena. However, as the interaction between man and nature proceeded from the condition of conviviality to that of belligerence, there has been a marked decline in the resilience of nature to accommodate human avarice. It is nature’s reactions to this unfair transaction that is today called climate change. In Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change remains an intractable problem, or to borrow the words of Pollitt (2016), “a very wicked issue” that challenges state capacity to contain its scourge. Finding a way around this wicked issue has been the preoccupation of public policy scholars and practitioners. Incidentally, combating climate change is a cross cutting issue in the 2030 global agenda for sustainable development which inevitably touches on access to affordable and sustainable energy, protection of the ecosystem to halt biodiversity loss. Consistent with this global agenda is the Africa agenda 2063 with the overarching aspiration of “a prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and sustainable development”. These multinational initiatives suggest a growing consensus on environmental sustainability as the desideratum of development. In Nigeria, the energy crisis and its attendant consequences on the environment has made the country one of the most vulnerable to climate change in the region. This paper seeks to offer a perspective on public governance for climate action. It argues that lack of state capacity to address the energy requirement of the economy has had grave consequences on environmental resourcefulness. While consensus on multinational agenda is given, the point at issues is for national governments to domesticate this agenda and mobilize the requisite resources to translate them into measurable achievements. The paper observes that apart from the huge deficit in furnishing the energy need of the real sector, the energy crisis poses existential threats such as food insecurity, environmental pollution/degradation through deforestation, flooding and pollution. The paper recommends, among others, that the Nigeria-Germany bilateral cooperation on the power sector should be implemented to its logical conclusion, and that a program of public enlightenment is urgently required to arrest traditional practices that are harmful to environmental sustainability.

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“…Carbon emission from gas flaring in the Nigerian oil and gas sector may be described as a direct indicator of vulnerability at sector level. Gas flaring represents burning of an important energy resource leading to loss of significant amount of revenue and resulting in carbon emission (Akinola, 2018; Olujobi, 2020). This study suspects that as a source of vulnerability, flaring of ANG leading to emission of carbon dioxide may hurt the Nigerian GDP.…”

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“…Of course, the government realised this a long time ago and has been putting measures in place in the form of policies and regulations to end the practice. Regrettably, however, gas flaring described as environmentally damaging and financially wasteful (Akinola, 2018; Olujobi, 2020) still persists in Nigeria. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is twofold.…”

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Dealing with vulnerability to carbon emission from gas flaring: the roles of transparency and utilisation policies in Nigeria

Hassan

2020

OPEC Energy Review

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Gas flaring, a practice described as environmentally damaging and financially wasteful, still persists on a large scale in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. Firstly, this paper investigates the vulnerability of the Nigerian economic performance to environmental pollution by estimating and analysing the relationship between carbon emission from gas flaring and Nigeria’s GDP. Secondly, the study examines how transparency and gas utilisation policies, deployed by the country, are performing in dealing with vulnerability to carbon emission from gas flaring. The paper uses an autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to cointegration and error‐correction‐based Granger causality. The paper establishes that carbon emission from gas flaring affects Nigeria’s GDP negatively in both the short and long run. However, the results show that GDP has started exhibiting resilience to carbon emission from gas flaring in the long run. Findings imply that even though transparency and gas utilisation policies are doing well in increasing GDP’s long‐run resilience, persistent carbon emission from gas flaring continues to cause short‐run and long‐run economic vulnerability. The study discusses policy implications meant to be useful to the Nigerian government and the relevant regulatory authorities in the country's oil and gas industry.

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RETRACTED: Analysis of the Legal Framework Governing Gas Flaring in Nigeria’s Upstream Petroleum Sector and the Need for Overhauling

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

Conversion of organic wastes to electricity in Nigeria: legal perspective on the challenges and prospects

The Energy Crisis and Environmental Concerns in Sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria): A Perspective on Public Governance for Climate Action

Dealing with vulnerability to carbon emission from gas flaring: the roles of transparency and utilisation policies in Nigeria

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