Everything but Deterrence: Curbing Energy Fraud

In the period following the Industrial Revolution, the changing production and consumptionEnergy fraud patterns and the effects of companies on the environment have also changed. As a result of the large-scale production of many established factories and production units, they have had a large share in the pollution of the environment by producing waste at the same rate. Pollution has started to originate from both the production facilities and the wastes of the end user, so polluting factors have now penetrated a much wider geography than before. As a result of increasing environmental pollution, it is seen that the wastes produced by companies and the negative externalities they cause are being questioned at the social level. Developing environmental awareness enables businesses to adopt an attitude that is sensitive to nature, which is also known as green managementGreen management, that protects and sustains all living and non-living assetsAssets, and aims to minimize or even eliminate the environmental and economic damages caused to the environment during production. As a result of the adoption of the green managementGreen management approach, the increase in low carbon energyEnergy demand reduces the demand for oil and gas in the energyEnergy sector, pushing the use of traditional energyEnergy sources into question. In this direction, the possibility of fraudFraud is more likely in enterprises operating in the energyEnergy sector, especially in gas and oil producing enterprises. In this study, firstly, the concept of fraudFraud was discussed in detail; afterward, examples of fraudFraud that occurred in the energyEnergy sector are included. The potential fraudFraud possibilities that the businesses in the sector may encounter were evaluated and in the conclusion part of the study, prevention methods were discussed.