Gas flaring in Nigeria: Implications for sustainable environmental dev elopment

Abstract

This paper traces the origin of oil exploration and by extension gas flaring in Nigeria with its attendant costs and implications on the environment. The paper also examines the politics surrounding the inability the country to stop flaring activities in tune with the objectives of the National Policy on the Environment, international concern and conventions on global warming and the desire to promote sustainable development. The paper, therefore, concludes that if a definitive action is not taken on gas flaring in the oil sub-sector, such disasters as ocean surges and flooding which were witnessed in some parts of Asia are imminent on the African continent.