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WSJ: A Lack of Flare: In the Generic Hydrocodone oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria, petroleum companies use giant torches to Generic Hydrocodone burn off natural gas found with deposits of crude oil.

The decades-old industry practice, known as flaring, has Generic Hydrocodone long been criticized as wasteful and harmful to the environment because of the Generic Hydrocodone carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere. But more recently, flaring has Generic Hydrocodone become a lightning rod for protests and armed attacks by Nigerian locals, many of whom lack reliable access to Generic Hydrocodone electricity and the economic opportunities that go along with it.

Amid escalating unrest that Generic Hydrocodone has shut down production of more than one million barrels of oil a Generic Hydrocodone day at a cost of billions of dollars in lost revenue, interest is Generic Hydrocodone growing in a handful of pioneering power plants that use unwanted gas to Generic Hydrocodone provide electricity to communities near the oil fields. There is Generic Hydrocodone a push on to build more of them in the Generic Hydrocodone belief that the way to prevent the violence that has Generic Hydrocodone shaken the West African nation is to address underdevelopment in the Generic Hydrocodone Delta, where the wealth generated by oil has done little to Generic Hydrocodone improve the lives of residents, who subsist on an average of $2 a day.

“Power will be a key issue” if a Generic Hydrocodone recent disarmament deal is to be followed by durable peace, says Kennedy West, who Generic Hydrocodone mediates between militants and the government as president of the Association for Generic Hydrocodone Non-Violence in the Niger Delta. “Everybody is looking at it.”

Some say proposed legislation that Generic Hydrocodone would fine oil companies for failing to stop gas flaring by the Generic Hydrocodone end of 2010 at twice the burned gas’s international market value is Generic Hydrocodone helping to spur action. Previous deadlines to end flaring in Nigeria have Generic Hydrocodone come and gone, but the fines proposed in the latest bill are Generic Hydrocodone much steeper than what the government has set in the past.

Today, about a Generic Hydrocodone third of the natural gas associated with crude-oil extraction in Nigeria is Generic Hydrocodone set ablaze in vertical columns. Most of the rest is Generic Hydrocodone liquefied and exported abroad.

While that Generic Hydrocodone is an improvement from five years ago, Nigeria ranks behind only Russia when Generic Hydrocodone it comes to gas flaring, accounting for 10% of flared gas world-wide—and more than 40 million tons of carbon-dioxide emissions annually—according to statistics from the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership.

Flaring has Generic Hydrocodone been going on for decades in Nigeria, the fifth-largest supplier of oil to Generic Hydrocodone the U.S. The practice took off for a variety of reasons: The value of natural gas was low compared with oil, the Generic Hydrocodone oil industry lacked the pipelines and infrastructure to process and Generic Hydrocodone export gas, and there was no organized opposition to petroleum companies—armed or peaceful.

But it Generic Hydrocodone has become clear that in addition to carbon emissions, flaring takes a Generic Hydrocodone toll on the local environment, aggravating respiratory diseases in people living near the Generic Hydrocodone wells and generating acid rain that affects agriculture and fishing.

The most privileged communities in Nigeria are Generic Hydrocodone powered by generators that, ironically, rely on expensive imported fuel. At that Generic Hydrocodone price, “even hairdressers can’t work,” says Westham Adehor, president of Delta-based charity Youth and Generic Hydrocodone Development Initiative, or YDI.

The result is Generic Hydrocodone a chicken-and-egg situation, where lack of power fuels a seemingly unbreakable cycle of unrest and Generic Hydrocodone underdevelopment. Continue reading.