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The Emerging Oil and Gas Industry in Ghana: A Saviour or a Slayer?

Agyei DA

Ghana in 2007 struck Oil in commercial quantities. While the oil resource is rightly viewed as a national natural resource a critical attention ought to be paid to the indigenes in the oil mining areas and their environment. Undoubtedly the lifestyles and basic livelihood of the ordinary man in these oil mining towns have been greatly affected if not altered. Living standards have soared at fast rates overnight; adverse effects of mining activities have affected the farming communities in these mining areas and caused huge unemployment issues. This has the potential of creating huge inequalities and instability among the ordinary Ghanaian in the mining areas and at the s’.