富含石油的尼日尔三角洲地区:提高尼日利亚管理程序性能的纲要

富含石油的尼日尔三角洲地区位于4°～6°N,5°～9°E,估计面积为70 000km2左右.尼日尔三角洲是非洲最大的河流三角洲,始于尼日尔河沿岸城市奥尼查(Onitsha),延伸约266km到大西洋.构成尼日尔三角洲的主要支流包括邦尼(Bonny)、努恩(Nun)、埃斯克拉沃斯(Escravos)以及新卡拉巴尔(New Calabar)等河流.     

The oil rich Niger Delta region: a framework for improved performance of the Nigerian regulatory process

The adoption of this policy framework has the ability to reconcile industry, the environment and community interests, taking into account all factors that are relevant to managing developments that are both sustainable and contributory to the achievement of industrial and community stability. The management of resource development is crucial in sustaining the Niger Delta ecosystem and the human population resident in the Niger Delta region. If these separate bodies are constituted they would have the potential to reduce and discourage: i) the vulnerability of the regulatory body to influential and powerful multinational oil companies; ii) the proclivity for unaccountability to the people of the Niger Delta region, since the people of the Niger Delta would have access to the regulatory body's classified and unclassified information, and are part of the decision-making process; and iii) a reduction in conflict between the oil mining companies and the aggrieved youths of the oil rich Niger Delta region. This policy framework also has the added advantage of producing high quality decisions and more acceptable decisions than those for which the people of the Niger Delta region are excluded from the processes that concern their existence. The agency decision-making could now become a multilateral process and thus promote and enhance the accurate, impartial and rational application of legislative directives to given cases or classes of cases. Most importantly, the Minister of Petroleum Resources should be empowered by legislation to revoke any license or lease in respect of an area designated as marginal if left undeveloped for a period of 5 years and grant a lease or license for the area to a more responsible oil company.