Social, economic and environmental impacts of an increasing energy demand
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- Created on: 12-05-13 11:44
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- Social, economic and environmental impacts of increasing energy demand
- Economic advantages
- Encourages investment in infrastructure
- Employment
- Export earnings
- Foreign currency
- Economic issues
- Over reliance on one industry
- Raises cost of living for indigenous people
- Benefits may not reach local population (leakage)
- Social advantages
- Better quality of life
- Investment in services such as education and healthcare
- Social issues
- Displacement
- Pollution
- Conflicts
- Environmental advantages
- Investment in renewables
- Environmental issues
- Damage to ecosystems
- Pollution
- Waste
- Deforestation
- Niger Delta
- 20000 foregin oil workers in Nigeria
- Niger imports 75% of it's commodities
- 9-18m population
- MEND-Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta
- MEND hire armed gangs and criminals to steal oil from, and vandalise oil exporting companies
- $2.2bn of oil produced per month in 2008 in the Niger Delta
- MEND beleive that wealth from oil is unfairly distributed, and that oil exploitation is causing environmental damage
- Oil companies hire other gangs in return to protect their oil
- 5000 miles of pipeline
- 10 olympic swimming pools of oil stolen each day
- $15bn of oil stolen each year
- Said to be an oil spill every day
- USA fracking
- In 2011, the US produced 8,500,983 million cubic feet of natural gas, taking an average of $4.24 per thousand cubic feet
- Gave a value of $36bn form shale gas alone
- In 1980, fracking supported 267000
- Natural Gas imports decreased by 25% 2007 and 2011
- US predicted to become a net exporter of gas
- Shale Gas contributiion to GDP in 2010 was $76.9bn
- Set to be $118bn to GDP by 2015, and $231bn by 2035
- Kinder Morgan invest $70m a year into reasearch
- US department of labour gave a $5m grsnt for shale gas training in 2008
- In 2011, the US produced 8,500,983 million cubic feet of natural gas, taking an average of $4.24 per thousand cubic feet
- Economic advantages
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