Environmental Ethics and the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry: Rumpus and Resolution

Abstract

The highlights and assess ethical questions that arise from the impact of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry on the environment, and suggests ways for addressing revealed ethical challenges using tools provided by theories connected with environmental ethics. It is contended that activities of industry operators do not meet relevant standards of environmental ethics, especially as the laws and practices of the industry engender intra/inter-generational inequity as well as significant negative transboundary effects. The paper demonstrates how several theoretical approaches. including consequentialism, deontology, virtue ethics and environmental pragmatism, may be useful in turning the tide