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… Legal Regime for Marine Environmental Protection: Pollution Control ..................................... 10 … of oily wastes as ships converted from wind and coal to oil as a source of power. These “sector-specific” conventions … agreements were concluded to address the movement of the oil industry offshore and greater use of the oceans for waste …

… 3.4.2 Water pollution … 3.5.2 Pollution … deforestation, agriculture, human settlements, mining, and oil. The majority of threatened species are found in the … and habitats. Mining in many parts of the region and oil production in the Niger Delta is also degrading and …

… legislation 117 Box II(3)-13: Development control under pollution legislation 118 Box II(3)-14: Court attention to … that are under pressure from human activities such as oil and gas exploration, overexploitation, fishing and … frontiers for harvesting and mining, including deep water oil drilling (and damage from accidents such as the BP Deep …

… of the impacts of local barriers (such as highways, oil pipelines, railway lines and canals) on the movements and … (Hunt et al. 1987; Yanes et al. 1995) and, in Alaska, oil pipelines have been elevated above the ground to provide … degradation. It has little influence on point sources of pollution, such as effluent pipes, sewers and drains. …

… harvested for timber (approximately 400,000km2), while oil and gas extraction has seen the drilling of 51,000 wells … access (Sawyer and Mayhood, 1998). With plans to maintain oil and gas production, an additional 137,000 wells will have …