The Causal Relationship between Natural Gas Productions and Impotent Regulatory Framework on Gas Flaring in Nigeria

Cranbrook Law Review 9(1), 2019

13 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2020

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Professor Kato Gogo Kingston

University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria; Ubelejit Unique Chambers; Achievers University Nigeria

Abbiba Prebo Lilly-Tariah

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: 2018

Abstract

This study investigates the dynamic causal relationship between gas productions and the impotence of the gas flaring regulatory laws and policies in Nigeria. The theoretical models adopted for the study is the law and economics framework of Posner and Akaike’s econometric time-series frameworks. The data for the study consisted of Nigeria’s annual gas export value from 2007 to 2017 which formed the dependent variable and, the impotence of the gas flaring regulatory laws was substituted with the data of the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR) and the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative data on the financial values of the losses and damages caused by the laxity in enforcing the laws, representing the independent variable. The models of KPSS and ADF were used in testing the stationarity of the variable. Granger time series causality model was used for data analysis. The results show that, there is a two-way relationship between the variables. The results therefore indicates that, the weaker the regulatory laws, the higher the production and flaring of natural gas. Also the higher the production and flaring of natural gas, the more the regulatory laxity persist.

Keywords: Crude Oil, Gas, Environment, Regulations, Laws, Nigeria.

Suggested Citation

Kingston, Professor Kato Gogo and Kingston, Professor Kato Gogo and Lilly-Tariah, Abbiba Prebo, The Causal Relationship between Natural Gas Productions and Impotent Regulatory Framework on Gas Flaring in Nigeria (2018). Cranbrook Law Review 9(1), 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3530026

Professor Kato Gogo Kingston (Contact Author)

University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria ( email )

Ubelejit Unique Chambers ( email )

Port Harcourt
Nigeria

Achievers University Nigeria ( email )

Nigeria

Abbiba Prebo Lilly-Tariah

affiliation not provided to SSRN

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