Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Pollution Control Laws

This book critically examines the corporate environmental responsibility of major oil companies operating in Nigeria's Niger Delta, focusing on oil spills and comparing regulatory frameworks in Nigeria, the US, the UK, and the EU. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of environmental law, pollution and land law.

Autorentext

Millicent Nwabu Ele is a UK-based law lecturer and academic researcher focusing on corporate environmental responsibility, clean energy, and pollution control laws. She has a PhD in environmental and energy law from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, and an LL.M from Columbia University School of Law, New York, USA. Before her law degree at University of Nigeria, Nsukka, she read Zoology/Botany/Education at University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and taught biology and human physiology for many years. Millicent is well-published in law and has broad legal experience. She has been admitted to practice law in Nigeria and the State of New York, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction

2. Oil Spill Prevention, Sanctions and Payment of Compensation

3. Analysis of Shell's Oil Spill Environmental Performance Data

4. Managing Oil Spills in the Niger Delta: The Laws, Regulations and Challenges

5. Regulatory Capture, Revolving Doors and the Multinational Oil Companies in the Niger Delta

6. Litigating Nigerian Oil Spill Cases in the US, the UK and the Netherlands

7. Environmental Crime and Corporate Environmental Crime

8. Insights From Some Legal Frameworks for Strengthening Corporate Due Diligence and Accountability

9. Environmental Review of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 and Suggestions for Improvement

10. Introducing a 'Failure to Prevent' Oil Spill Offence in Nigeria