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Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse
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Our recent research reveals enormous discrepancies in oil spill data disclosed by
regulatory institutions and corporate sources in Nigeria. Federal agencies as
well as major international oil corporations publish inconsistent and sometimes
contradictory figures, often employing different spatial or regional
categorizations. Uncertainties pertaining to data veracity in the Niger Delta,
alongside the thin scientific record inflect deeply contentious debates regarding
the country's oil industry. For advocacy organizations, the result is that those
seeking to monitor oil spills may spend hours trying to square and
cross-reference uneven information, time that could otherwise be spent assessing
the scale of impacts and analyzing the complex structural causes surrounding
them. Scholarly work in other jurisdictions indicates that the staging of
non-transparent, incoherent and/or intentionally misleading data on oil spill
risks is not unique to Nigeria, leading to a kind of epistemological vertigo in
studying this sector.