Managing Cumulative Impacts of Oil and Gas Projects
Explore the challenges and impacts of oil and gas projects on water scarcity, waterborne diseases, climate change, and more. Learn about the role of impact assessment and corporate policies in addressing these issues effectively.
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HIA of oil and gas projects: cumulative impacts Martin Birley Salim Vohra Balsam Ahmad
Content Objections Role of IA Water scarcity and waterborne diseases Climate change and general morbidity
Objections to advertised paper Too specific Excess secrecy Too general
Role of impact assessment? Complicity with client Complacency about impacts Challenge to client groupthink
Cumulative impacts and policy Cumulative impacts Policy/strategy vacuum
Water scarcity Oil fields river villages irrigation
Reducing domestic water supply Increasing waterborne diseases Increasing cost of water Poverty Inequality
Climate change Global cumulative impact >150,000 annual deaths globally Within lifetime of new projects Denial Urgent Oct 2011 Safe
National climate change impacts vary Middle East example Increasing water scarcity Temperature extremes Reduced food supply Sea flooding
Corporate climate change policies Acknowledge issue? Propose mitigation? Monitor and report? Independent evaluation?
Conclusions Excessive secrecy Challenge v complicity Cumulative impacts poorly managed/ policy vacuum Water management Climate change management Denial, urgency, acknowledgement, delivery
