Towards corporate environmental responsibility in Sub-Saharan Africa's oil and gas industry: opportunities and challenges
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2014-04-11
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Omotoso, Wasiu Adebisi
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This thesis demonstrates the level of environmental disaster that oil TNCs have brought into Sub-Sahara Africa as a direct consequence of economic globalization. The analysis reveals the weaknesses of the environmental regime in the Sub-Sahara African region, particularly in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon as well as the lack of administrative capacity of the governments. The thesis explores alternative means through which environmental responsibility of oil TNCs could be pursued at the supranational arena and within the legal system of home states of the oil TNCs. It seeks to do so by examining the phenomenon of tort-based action for foreign direct liability of the parent oil TNCs for the conduct of their foreign subsidiaries extraterritorially.
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Corporate, Environmental, Responsibility, Sub-Sahara, Nigeria, Globalization, Transnational, Corporations, Tort-Based, Litigation, Oil, Gas, Chad