Impact of Oil and Gas Exploration and Infrastructure in Niger Delta on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

This chapter provides the required context to appropriately underpin the book research exploring the impact of oil and gas exploration and infrastructure in Niger Delta on the UNSGDs focusing on the case study community of Nembe Bayelsa. It specifically focuses on climate action, decent employment, and life above ground and they lead to tensions and insecurity of the NCTL onshore oil and gas pipeline. The region is characterised by socio-economic stagnation, poverty, environmental degradation, pollution, and insecurity. This chapter and the book will establish that much of this is down to poor governance, and everything in between, that has intensified corruption and criminality. This has led to the recycling of incompetent and wicked leaders, private sector exploitation, and neglect of the damaging side effects of oil and gas exploration (Eboreime et al., 2010; Douglas and Okonta in Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta, London, Verso, 2003).