ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY IN NIGERIA AND CHALLENGE OF CRUDE OIL THEFT
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ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY IN NIGERIA AND CHALLENGE OF CRUDE OIL THEFT
Abstract
The issue of environmental degradation as a result of crude oil theft is quickly becoming an intractable problem in Nigeria. According to the International Energy Agency, Nigeria loses approximately $7 billion per year due to oil theft. Crude oil theft has resulted in pipeline damage, forcing oil firms to reduce output, and environmental degradation through oil spillage.
The federal government has enacted numerous rules and regulations to tackle the threat of crude oil theft. This study criticises the effectiveness of Nigerian laws and regulations, the challenges of crude oil theft, the endemic consequences of oil spillage in the Niger Delta environment, the economic impact of crude oil theft, and the Nigerian government’s lack of sincerity in combating crude oil theft.
This report offers appropriate remedies, such as proper enforcement of current laws, and finds that crude oil theft is an act of terrorism against the Nigerian economy.
Chapter one
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
In order to better comprehend the meaning of the word “environmental integrity,” this study will attempt to separate it so that it can be defined. The term environmental refers to the natural conditions under which people, animals, and plants live.
The phrase integrity refers to uprightness, honesty, purity, completeness, and wholeness; the unimpaired state of everything. Â Given the preceding definitions of the term, it follows that environmental integrity is the preservation of the pure state, the undamaged state of the natural conditions in which people, animals, and plants live in all human endeavours.
Environmental integrity has also been defined as the preservation of critical biophysical processes that support plant and animal life and must be permitted to continue without significant modification.
The goal is to ensure the continuous health of nature’s fundamental life support systems, such as air, water, and soil, by preserving the resilience, diversity, and purity of natural communities (ecosystems) within the environment.
In the strictest sense, environmental integrity depicts an environment free of all forms of pollution from all polluting sources, which are mostly the result of human actions in their search for survival, such as pollution from companies, residences, and so on.
This means that human survival and development cannot exist without pollution, and because this state is unattainable, i.e. Following from the foregoing explanation of what environmental integrity entails, the question arises: what is the state of the environment in Nigeria?
How is environmental integrity preserved in Nigeria? Nigeria turned towards industrialisation in its pursuit of economic development after independence.
During Nigeria’s first decade of independence (1960-1970), the government implemented a plan to stimulate industrial expansion in order to directly contribute to economic growth and national development. In the 1970s, two of the most popular aims of national development plans were:
Increase self-sufficiency in the supply of industrial goods and factor inputs. Develop and support small and medium-sized industries and their contributions to manufacturing.
In the new millennium, the emphasis is on privatisation and commercialisation, job creation, and poverty elimination.
Overall, the government seeks national economic development by promoting industry growth through continuous scientific and technological research, the development of new products, the establishment of high quality standards in industrial goods and services, and the ability to produce building capacity in order to successfully face competition and changes in taste.
As successive Nigerian administrations built and invested in industries, industrial economic development harmed and deteriorated Nigeria’s environment.
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