Is living in a gas-flaring host community associated with being hypertensive? Evidence from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

Maduka, Omosivie; Tobin-West, Charles

doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000413

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“…Another theme identified was the coping strategies used by the communities to survive by themselves. Breathing in polluted air can cause lungs disease and other health challenges (Maduka & Tobin-west, 2017). Therefore, this involves investigating the method used by the communities to protect their health in the absence of government intervention.…”

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“…In Nigeria, oil revenue constitutes the largest proportion of the foreign earnings with over 75% of the foreign reserve (World Bank, 2016) thereby requiring political attention. There has been lack of enforcement of proper environmental regulation practices and conflict among various bodies or agencies saddled with the responsibility of controlling and monitoring petroleum extraction and mining (Maduka & Tobin-west, 2017). Sufficient measures are lacking in the activities of federal environmental rotation agency and the department of petroleum resources to regulate and enforce anti flaring policies.…”

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“…Researches argue that gas flaring increases occurrence of acid rain in the Niger delta area (Adewale & Mustapha, 2015;John, 2012). Another study found that there is concentration of heavy metals in the surface and ground waters (Nwankwo & Ogagarue, 2011) and people of Niger delta are prone to ecological and bacteria disease as a result of gas flaring (Adekola, Fischbacher-smith, & Fischbacher-smith, 2017;Maduka & Tobin-west, 2017). A study by (Ojijiagwo et al, 2016) shows that there is a statistically significant relationship between gas flaring, foreign direct investment and environmental pollution in Niger delta where he found that there is a causal relationship of gas flaring and oil extraction to air, soil and water pollution in Niger delta.…”

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“…At the global level, the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from Nigeria's flares make a substantial contribution to climate change and the cost will mainly fall heavily on the poor people. Gas flaring is a barrier against efforts aimed at the human capital development of the Niger delta via disease and related effects such as hypertension (Maduka & Tobin-west, 2017;Nnabuife, 2013), cancer, blood disorders, asthma and skin diseases (Adewale & Mustapha, 2015). It's been in existence for about 4 decades.…”

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“…and (Maduka & Tobin-west, 2017) in their findings; show that the people are exposed to hypertension and other non-communicable diseases as a result of gas flaring.…”

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A Mixed Method Inquiry of Gas Flaring Consequences, Mitigation Strategies and Policy Implication for Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria

Rufai¹,

Alademomi²,

Teye³

et al. 2019

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Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Professor Ren Chong for providing helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper and warm appreciation to the Chinese Government Scholarship Council for providing the Corresponding Author with fully funded study grants to pursue his postgraduate studies at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). AbstractThe issue of gas flaring in Nigeria has become a topical one in view of the devastating effect it has in the socioeconomic lives of the people in the affected areas. This paper investigates the environmental implication and mitigating strategies of the victims in Nigeria. Mix method was adopted by conducting 60 semi-structured interviews in three communities. The data was transcribed and analyzed using ATLAS.ti and content analysis. Findings show that gas flaring is the major problem facing the Niger Delta communities having negative effects on resident's health, source of income and farm produce without any legal framework to curb it. Findings also show that people mitigate by using self-strategies such as nose mask, fertilizer for farm produce and boiling of drinking water. Data collected from government shows that there is an annual increase in gas production but gas flaring decreases at a slower rate as depicted in the graph. The paper is the first to conduct research on the coping strategy of the victims of gas flaring in Niger Delta and the importance of technology in eradicating gas flaring. The study recommended technology transfer from technologically advanced countries in capturing the associated gas instead of flaring it.

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“…and (Maduka & Tobin-west, 2017) in their findings; show that the people are exposed to hypertension and other non-communicable diseases as a result of gas flaring.…”

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A Mixed Method Inquiry of Gas Flaring Consequences, Mitigation Strategies and Policy Implication for Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria

Rufai¹,

Alademomi²,

Teye³

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A systematic review of the impacts of oil spillage on residents of oil-producing communities in Nigeria

Ezeh,

Onyema,

Obi

et al. 2024

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Oil spillage is common in oil-producing communities of Nigeria and it impacts negatively on the lives of the residents of these communities. This study analysed available research data on oil spillage incidents in these communities to determine the main causes of the spillage and its impacts on the residents. A systematic review of published studies was carried out and 20 studies were identi ed from the literature search. The main causes of oil spills were identi ed as sabotage, oil theft, illegal re ning, mystery spill, operational failures, and corrosion. Over 70% of the spillages were discovered to be as a result of sabotage by restive youths. Oil spillage was found to impact on the health, source of livelihood, food security, basic amenities, and socio-economic state of the residents. The major interventions were initiated by multinational companies and were targeted at improving health services, education, infrastructure, skill acquisition, and employment, which will in turn reduce the occurrence of violence, insurgency, and human tra cking in the oil-producing communities. This study highlights the immediate and long-term consequences of oil spills on the residents of oil-host communities in Nigeria. The causes of the spills were attributed mainly to the inaction of government regulatory agencies in oil exploration. Thus, it is recommended that government regulatory agencies should be revamped and repositioned to effectively perform their duties.Interventions should be targeted at addressing the causes of the agitation of the indigenes by involving them in the decision-making process. Also, an appropriate remediation strategy should be adopted to clean up the oil spills. IntroductionOil and gas industry remains the backbone of the Nigerian economy since it contributes over 90% of its revenues and about 45% of its GDP (Akinlo, 2012;Ekeghe, 2022). Elum et al. (2016) suggested that Nigeria's economic and political fortunes are strongly linked to crude oil. Thus, one can assume that without crude oil, the Nigerian economy might crumble.Presently, crude oil is produced in nine Southern States of Nigeria (Ejechi, 2022) and the federal government and select multinational companies are vested with the power to explore this resource. Thus, the oil-producing states and oil-host communities have little or no say in the crude-oil exploration decision-making process (Elum, 2016). However, this might change with the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) which was recently signed into law. Currently, little attention is being paid to the resultant detrimental impacts of such exploration ventures on the oil-producing communities in Nigeria. The environmental degradation of the ecosystem has resulted in widespread poverty and deprivation of resource advantages in the oil host communities (Elum, 2016). This has given rise to resentments of policies of the federal government by the residents, resulting in several cases of civil disturbance in the region (Apata, 2010).Environmental disasters in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria are cau...

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Optimised site selection of hybrid renewable installations for flare gas reduction using Multi-Criteria decision making

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Chaturvedi

2022

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Is living in a gas-flaring host community associated with being hypertensive? Evidence from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria

Cited by 28 publications

References 20 publications

A Mixed Method Inquiry of Gas Flaring Consequences, Mitigation Strategies and Policy Implication for Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria

A Mixed Method Inquiry of Gas Flaring Consequences, Mitigation Strategies and Policy Implication for Environmental Sustainability in Nigeria

A systematic review of the impacts of oil spillage on residents of oil-producing communities in Nigeria

Optimised site selection of hybrid renewable installations for flare gas reduction using Multi-Criteria decision making

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