Assessment of organochlorine pesticides residues in higher plants from oil exploration areas of Niger Delta, Nigeria

2012 ◽  
Vol 433 ◽  
pp. 169-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Samuel Sojinu ◽  
Oluwadayo O. Sonibare ◽  
Olusegun O. Ekundayo ◽  
Eddy Y. Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Organochlorine Pesticides ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Higher Plants ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Pesticides Residues

NIGERIA: DELTA OIL EXPLORATION POLITICS AND THE PORTRAYAL OF BRUTAL IMPACT IN YERIMA’S HARD GROUND

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Uche-Chinemere NWAOZUZU ◽  
Ifeanyichukwu ABADA ◽  
Emeka ANIAGO
Keyword(s):  
Crude Oil ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Hidden Agenda ◽  
Fault Lines

This study presents an interdisciplinary approach towards a critical analysis of some impacts of crude-oil exploration in Niger Delta and polemics of viable conϐlict resolution framework. This approach involves analysis of Ahmed Yerima’s creative portrayal in Hard Ground which revolves around the variables activating conϐlicting emotional interests in matters concerning ‘black gold’ in Nigeria, and how these variables resonant in debates and demands for Nigeria’s polity restructuring because of perceived resource mismanagement. More so, our scope includes an analytical attempt at illuminating elaborately our interpretation of the dimensions to the loud and shrewd inclinations subsuming what some see as solution to the lingering conϐlict, and the suppositions explaining why others see the debates and demands on polity restructuring as dark convoluted ploys aimed at hidden agenda. Hence, through select theories of victimhood, this study attempts to elucidate on the variables propelling conϐlicting emotional interestsabout oil exploration in Niger Delta, by looking interpretively hard and deep on the perspectives, views and suppositions deϐining the ideologies and inclinations propelling them. In the end, this study notes that the disenchantments and troubles with Nigeria’s polity framework and structure as it relates to oil exploration in Niger Delta are subsumed in Hard Ground’s creativecontribution as a means of assessing the points to the fault-lines that characterize the subsisting socio-political structure upon which Nigeria stands and wobbles.

scholarly journals Environment pollution: The rise of militarism and terrorism in the Niger Delta of Nigeria

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Christian Madubuko
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Oil Companies ◽  
The People ◽  
Oil Pipelines ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Receive

Oil was discovered in large quantities in Nigeria in 1956 and exploration began in the same year. Before oil, agriculture and fishing had assured the Niger Delta people of a bright future. Since 1956, oil has been extracted from the Niger Delta with destructive consequences on the environment, bringing about environmental degradation and destruction of the people’s primary means of livelihood. Land and water were badly polluted, and the health of the people affected because of leaks from oil pipelines, gas flaring and acid rains. Several petitions and non-violent protests by Delta communities, women and youth against environmental destruction failed to receive attention. Rather, opposition to peaceful protests earned the people military invasions of their communities, clampdowns and jailings. The rise of militarism and terrorism in the Niger Delta was the result of the Federal Government and Oil Companies’ clampdown on non-violent protests for environmental justice in the Niger Delta. This paper discusses the history of oil exploration in the Niger Delta, oil laws, effects of oil exploration in the region, and the rise of militants and terrorists in the area. The paper uses the term, ‘environmental Justice’ to denote unfair treatment and destruction of the Delta environment resulting from oil exploration, non implementation and enforcement of environmental laws and regulations, and abuse of human rights.The paper suggests solutions for peace in the Niger Delta.

Levels of Organochlorine Pesticides Residues in Human Adipose Tissue, Data from Tabasco, Mexico

2012 ◽  
Vol 89 (5) ◽  
pp. 1062-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan M. Waliszewski ◽  
M. Caba ◽  
S. S. Rodríguez Díaz ◽  
H. Saldarriaga-Noreña ◽  
E. Meza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adipose Tissue ◽  
Organochlorine Pesticides ◽  
Human Adipose Tissue ◽  
Pesticides Residues

scholarly journals Organochlorine Pesticides Residues in Water and Sediment from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya

2016 ◽  
Vol 09 (09) ◽  
pp. 56-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osoro EM ◽  
Wandiga SO ◽  
Abongo DA ◽  
Madadi V O ◽  
Macharia J W
Keyword(s):  
Organochlorine Pesticides ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Pesticides Residues ◽  
Water And Sediment ◽  
Rusinga Island

scholarly journals Banned Organochlorine Pesticides Residues in Camel Milk, Meat, and Liver: A Case Study from Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (Vol4) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
Moawiya Haddad
Keyword(s):  
Organochlorine Pesticides ◽  
Camel Milk ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Pesticide Contamination ◽  
Chromatographic System ◽  
Pesticides Residues ◽  
Maximum Residue Levels ◽  
Florisil Column Chromatography ◽  
Residue Levels

Although most of the organochlorine pesticides have been banned from use and trade in Jordan, their residues remain still present in different environmental and food matrices. Because of the need to clarify the current status of pesticide contamination in Jordan, the present study has investigated the extent of contamination in camel milk, meat, and liver. One hundred eighty samples of camel milk, meat, and liver have been analyzed for their residual contents of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and related metabolites, hexachlorohexane isomers, aldrin, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, and hexachlorobenzene. These samples were Soxhlet-extracted, cleaned up using florisil-column chromatography, and analyzed using a gas chromatographic system equipped with the electron-capture detector. Results: 31.7, 35, and 38.8% of the examined milk, meat, and liver samples, respectively, were contaminated with organochlorine pesticides. In general, obtained results have confirmed that pesticide contamination is still a significant concern when speaking of environmental samples and food in Jordan. More research is needed in this ambit. The pesticide contamination appears relevant enough in camel milk and liver samples, suggesting the need for reliable maximum residue levels where absent.

scholarly journals From Oil to Water? The Deepening Crises of Primitive Accumulation in the Waterscapes of Nigeria's Niger Delta

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Oil Exploration ◽  
Primitive Accumulation ◽  
Accumulation By Dispossession ◽  
Privately Owned ◽  
Peace And Development

Using the case of groundwater pollution in Nigeria's Niger Delta, this paper examines the shifting contours of primitive accumulation in the region. Based on two years of ethnographic research, the paper unravels the losses experienced by individuals and their dependents whose privately owned sources of water were polluted. It argues that the groundwater pollution is a deadly but less discussed form of primitive accumulation that has strong implications for peace and development in the affected communities. The paper concludes that accumulation by dispossession driven by oil exploration in the Niger Delta operates in complex ways and generates multifaceted crises; as such, the prospects for resolving the conflicts lie in addressing various strands of the dispossession, including groundwater pollution in the region.

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