The Emerging Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana: A Saviour or a Slayer?
*Corresponding Author: Agyei DA, Department of Commercial Law, Faculty of Law, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana, Tel: +233276414414, Email: doreenadomaagyei@gmail.com, doreenadomaagyei@gmail.comReceived Date: Jun 27, 2019 / Accepted Date: Jul 09, 2019 / Published Date: Jul 15, 2019
Citation: Agyei DA (2019) The Emerging Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana: A Saviour or a Slayer? Oil Gas Res 5: 167.
Copyright: © 2019 Agyei DA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Ghana in 2007 struck Oil in commercial quantities. While the oil resource is rightly viewed as a national natural resource a critical attention ought to be paid to the indigenes in the oil mining areas and their environment. Undoubtedly the lifestyles and basic livelihood of the ordinary man in these oil mining towns have been greatly affected if not altered. Living standards have soared at fast rates overnight; adverse effects of mining activities have affected the farming communities in these mining areas and caused huge unemployment issues. This has the potential of creating huge inequalities and instability among the ordinary Ghanaian in the mining areas and at the s’.
