This paper examines the nature, impact, ramifications, and root causes of the corporate-community resource conflict in Anambra’s oil-bearing communities. It approaches this objective from the standpoint that such a conflict may be appropriately termed “a legacy of oil transnational corporations” in Nigeria, given their antecedents in the Niger Delta region. Unlike the existing literature that blames such conflicts for the most part on environmental, socio-economic, and political factors, with limited emphasis on the legal factors, this paper takes the position that an unhealthy legal apparatus of the Nigerian state and regulatory gaps in Nigeria’s oil industry provide the enabling environment that makes the conflict inevitable. Essentially, this paper tweaks the “resource curse” theory as espoused by mainstream political economists by demonstrating that, apart from greed and grievance, the “curse” is equally underpinned by inept legal structures and regulatory gaps that show little regard for good governance and the well-being of the local people in host communities. But two possible solutions are proffered. One is the institutionalization of a statutory scheme for consultation with the local communities before appropriation of their lands for oil production projects, and the other is encouraging the participation of indigenous peoples or indigenous entities in the development of their natural resources, following the example of Orient Petroleum Resources Plc.

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石油跨国公司和企业与社区冲突的遗留问题：尼日利亚 SEEPCO 案例

本文探讨了阿南布拉含油社区企业与社区资源冲突的性质、影响、后果和根本原因。考虑到尼日尔三角洲地区的前身，这种冲突可以适当地称为尼日利亚“石油跨国公司的遗产”，这一观点是实现这一目标的出发点。现有文献将此类冲突主要归咎于环境、社会经济和政治因素，而对法律因素的重视有限，与此不同的是，本文认为尼日利亚国家法律机构不健全，尼日利亚政府监管缺陷石油工业提供了使冲突不可避免的有利环境。从本质上讲，本文对主流政治经济学家所拥护的“资源诅咒”理论进行了调整，证明除了贪婪和不满之外，“诅咒”同样受到无能的法律结构和监管差距的支撑，而这些结构和监管差距几乎不考虑良好的治理和东道社区当地人的福祉。但提供了两种可能的解决方案。一是将法定计划制度化，在征用当地社区的土地用于石油生产项目之前与当地社区进行协商；二是效仿东方国家的榜样，鼓励土著人民或土著实体参与其自然资源的开发。石油资源公司。