Response to Indigenous Indigenous Peoples and the oil and gas industry: Context issues and emerging good practice

Author(s):  
Craig Pasch ◽  
Anupama Mohan ◽  
Margaret Roper Cleland ◽  
Jordon Kuschminder
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Spice

In the settler colonial context of so-called Canada, oil and gas projects are contemporary infrastructures of invasion. This article tracks how the state discourse of “critical infrastructure” naturalizes the environmental destruction wrought by the oil and gas industry while criminalizing Indigenous resistance. I review anthropological work to analyze the applicability of the concept of infrastructure to Indigenous struggles against resource extraction. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indigenous land defense movements against pipeline construction, I argue for an alternative approach to infrastructure that strengthens and supports the networks of human and other-than-human relations that continue to make survival possible for Indigenous peoples.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Lorna Johnstone ◽  
Federica Scarpa

In December 2015, The Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation published Verso una strategia italiana per l‘artico (Towards an Italian Strategy for the Arctic). In this article, the authors explain and evaluate the document in light of Italy’s connections to and interests in the Arctic, the Kiruna rules for observers at the Arctic Council, and the Arctic policies of other observers. They conclude that the intended audience for Verso una strategia is the Arctic States. Therefore, the document emphasises relevant Italian scientific efforts and promotes Italy’s oil and gas industry while downplaying the rights of indigenous peoples and avoiding issues of controversy. Publication of the document as a work in progress indicates the ministry’s willingness to listen to feedback and adapt its approaches as it develops a more comprehensive and nuanced strategy.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-85
Author(s):  
Nisa Istiqomah Nidasari

AbstrakPengadaan tanah untuk kegiatan industri minyak dan gas bumi merupakan kegiatan strategis yang diprioritaskan negara atas nama ‘kepentingan umum’.  Tidak jarang, pengadaan tersebut merampas hak tenurial masyarakat adat demi menyediakan lahan bagi perusahaan  untuk melakukan eksplorasi dan eksploitasi. Padahal fungsi tanah bagi masyarakat adat tidak hanya sebagai tempat tinggal saja, tetapi juga sebagai tempat peribadatan, sumber mata pencaharian serta bagian dari budaya dan warisan leluhur yang harus dipertahankan dan dilestarikan. Hak masyarakat adat terhadap tanah ulayat juga dilindungi oleh berbagai instrumen hukum nasional dan internasional.Salah satu prosedur yang dapat memberikan perlindungan terhadap hak-hak fundamental masyarakat adat adalah FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent) atau PADIATAPA (Persetujuan Atas Dasar Informasi Awal Tanpa Paksaan). Secara khusus, tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menjawab pokok permasalahan sebagai berikut: Pertama, mengapa FPIC dapat menjadi instrumen hukum progresif untuk melindungi hak-hak masyarakat adat dalam kegiatan usaha migas? Kedua, bagaimana FPIC dapat meningkatkan kepastian hukum bagi investasi di sektor migas? Ketiga, bagaimana strategi untuk menerapkan FPIC dalam kebijakan pengadaan tanah untuk industri migas di Indonesia? AbstractLand clearing for  oil and gas industry is deemed as a strategic activity that is prioritized in the name of ‘Public Interest’. In many cases, such land clearing confiscated the land tenure of indigenous peoples to give space for oil companies conducting exploration and exploitation. This is unacceptable for indigenous peoples because not only they often depend on their customary land for their livelihoods and residence, but also because it has strong cultural and often spiritual significance. The rights of indigenous peoples over their customary land is protected under national and international legal frameworks.One of the procedure that shall gives a protection over the fundamental rights of Indigenous Peoples is FPIC (Free and Prior Informed Consent). In the business perspective, FPIC will increase the legal certainty for invesment as it provides the companies with social license to extract. Specifically, this paper will address the following questions: First, how FPIC could be a progressive legal instrument to protect Indigenous Peoples rights in the activity of oil and gas? Second, how FPIC could increase the legal certainty for investment in oil and gas industry? Third, what are the strategies to apply FPIC in the land clearing policy for oil and gas industry in Indonesia?


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Minna Pappila

This article scrutinizes how Russian legislation considers the rights of the indigenous peoples living in Russian oil production areas, and if there is a need for non-governmental certification standards in Russia. To do this, the Russian legislation has been compared with certain requirements of a new EO100TM Standard which seeks to regulate the social and environmental aspects of the oil and gas industry. The results of the study reveal that there are many aspects of indigenous peoples’ rights, such as access to information, possibilities for free, prior and informed consent, and the right to pursue traditional livelihoods, that Russian legislation does not adequately address. Since quick improvements in Russian legislation are unlikely, the use of an oil and gas certification system could help to improve the current situation in areas where the law does not safeguard the rights of indigenous peoples.


2020 ◽  
Vol 78 (7) ◽  
pp. 861-868
Author(s):  
Casper Wassink ◽  
Marc Grenier ◽  
Oliver Roy ◽  
Neil Pearson

2004 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Sharipova ◽  
I. Tcherkashin

Federal tax revenues from the main sectors of the Russian economy after the 1998 crisis are examined in the article. Authors present the structure of revenues from these sectors by main taxes for 1999-2003 and prospects for 2004. Emphasis is given to an increasing dependence of budget on revenues from oil and gas industries. The share of proceeds from these sectors has reached 1/3 of total federal revenues. To explain this fact world oil prices dynamics and changes in tax legislation in Russia are considered. Empirical results show strong dependence of budget revenues on oil prices. The analysis of changes in tax legislation in oil and gas industry shows that the government has managed to redistribute resource rent in favor of the state.


2011 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
A. Oleinik

The article deals with the issues of political and economic power as well as their constellation on the market. The theory of public choice and the theory of public contract are confronted with an approach centered on the power triad. If structured in the power triad, interactions among states representatives, businesses with structural advantages and businesses without structural advantages allow capturing administrative rents. The political power of the ruling elites coexists with economic power of certain members of the business community. The situation in the oil and gas industry, the retail trade and the road construction and operation industry in Russia illustrates key moments in the proposed analysis.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
O. P. Trubitsina ◽  
V. N. Bashkin

The article is devoted to the consideration of geopolitical challenges for the analysis of geoenvironmental risks (GERs) in the hydrocarbon development of the Arctic territory. Geopolitical risks (GPRs), like GERs, can be transformed into opposite external environment factors of oil and gas industry facilities in the form of additional opportunities or threats, which the authors identify in detail for each type of risk. This is necessary for further development of methodological base of expert methods for GER management in the context of the implementational proposed two-stage model of the GER analysis taking to account GPR for the improvement of effectiveness making decisions to ensure optimal operation of the facility oil and gas industry and minimize the impact on the environment in the geopolitical conditions of the Arctic.The authors declare no conflict of interest


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