Environmental issues and events related to oil produced in Ghana
By Frederick Asiamah As the dust settles on the 30.5 million-dollar trading of shares involving the EO Group and Tullow Oil, it is becoming clear that Ghana could lose up to 30.5 million dollars through its inability to tax the transaction; a situation brought about by the delay in amending the petroleum income tax...
Half Assini (W/R), Aug. 3, GNA – The National Coordinator of the Centre for Social Impact Studies (CSIS) a local NGO, Mr Richard Ellimah has stressed the need for Ghanaian to monitor revenue from the oil sector to ensure that it benefits the people. Mr Ellimah made the statement at a day’s forum...
Accra, July 28, GNA – A team of research scientists at a seminar on the Environmental and Social issues of extractive industries in Ghana on Thursday called on Government to speed up the gas infrastructure project that aims to transport gas from the Jubilee Field. They said several months after the start of...
Tema, Aug. 1, GNA – Mrs Sherry Ayittey, Minister of the Environment, Science and Technology, at the weekend underscored the need for a sustainable oil sector that would not compromise the nation’s environment. She said the Environmental Protection Agency was collaborating effectively with the Ministry of Energy to ensure that the best practices...
Mrs Sherry Ayittey, Minister of the Environment, Science and Technology, at the weekend underscored the need for a sustainable oil sector that would not compromise the nation’s environment. She said the Environmental Protection Agency was collaborating effectively with the Ministry of Energy to ensure that the best practices were applied by operators in the...
Elmina, July 26, GNA – The Vice President, John Dramani Mahama, on Tuesday said, the discovery of oil and gas in the country has brought to the fore, additional challenges on the environment, particularly on the coastal landscape. He stressed the need to ensure that oil and gas production is done in an environmentally...
Takoradi, July 22, GNA-Ms Sherry Ayittey, Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, on Thursday said the Ministry will soon present a Land Use Planning Bill to Parliament. The bill, when passed into law, would establish an Authority that will regulate the use of land in the country to avoid mismanagement and other...
Tema, July 18, GNA – Participants at a Women Leadership Workshop for Mining, have urged government to make provisions in the law that would permit residents in the affected communities to take part in decisions on the utilization of Petroleum Revenue. They pointed out that the Petroleum Revenue Management act “does not go...
A global management and technology consulting firm, Accenture, has advised Ghanaian oil and gas authorities to make quick and deliberate interventions to ensure that indigenous companies and people obtain oil and gas contracts. The company said the days when the discovery of oil was deemed a sure conduit to prosperity were over, unless the...
Takoradi -– The Ghana Alert Project, an initiative to promote effective collaboration and coordination on conflict prevention and transformation, has introduced “Mitigating Oil Conflict” (MOC) concept as part of their project in the Western Region. Mr Justin Bayor, National Network Coordinator of the West Africa Network for Peace building, Ghana (WANEP-Ghana), the implementing body...
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