Abstract
Green Criminology and Degradation of the Environment by Activities of Multinational Oil Companies in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
Highlights
Some writers agreed that the Niger Delta region’s ecosystem is one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world (Anejionu et al, 2015)
While it is a fact that illegal militant activities like oil theft and oil bunkering contributes immensely to the environmental degradation in the region, operational spills by the oil companies contribute more
There is a significant difference in answers across the six geopolitical zones to the question whether oil companies are responsible for environmental degradation
Summary
Some writers agreed that the Niger Delta region’s ecosystem is one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world (Anejionu et al, 2015). As a sub-discipline concerned with investigation of environment related crimes, green criminologists need to double up or even triple up effort to investigate environmental degradation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region that has been going on for more than. The environmental crimes in the region are so cruel and complex that no amount of academic investigation would completely uncover the problem. There is no disagreement about the magnitudes of environmental degradation in the region, because of acts of sabotage by individuals or operational oil spills by the multinational oil companies. It is important to acknowledge that the environmental injustice caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta region is due to the negligence of the multinational corporations and the result of man-made efforts such as oil theft, bunkering, and pipeline vandalism (Odalonu, 2015). This paper seeks highlight how oil spillage and oil theft has been degrading the Niger Delta environment and to find out if multinational oil companies are responsible for degrading the Niger Delta environmental, and if they have shown more interest in cleaning the environment
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