Department of Public Administration and Health Services Management, University of Ghana Business School, PO Box LG 78, Legon, Accra, Ghana.
Environ Manage. 2013 Aug;52(2):385-97. doi: 10.1007/s00267-013-0086-9. Epub 2013 May 29.
This article investigates the involvement of local stakeholders in the environmental impact assessment (EIA) processes of Ghana's first off-shore oil fields (the Jubilee fields). Adopting key informants interviews and documentary reviews, the article argues that the public hearings and the other stakeholder engagement processes were cosmetic and rhetoric with the view to meeting legal requirements rather than a purposeful interest in eliciting inputs from local stakeholders. It further argues that the operators appear to lack the social legitimacy and social license that will make them acceptable in the project communities. A rigorous community engagement along with a commitment to actively involving local stakeholders in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes of the partners may enhance the image of the partners and improve their social legitimacy. Local government agencies should be capacitated to actively engage project organisers; and government must mitigate the impact of the oil projects through well-structured social support programmes.
本文调查了加纳首个海上油田（ Jubilee 油田）的环境影响评估（EIA）过程中当地利益相关者的参与情况。本文采用关键知情者访谈和文献回顾的方法，认为公众听证会和其他利益相关者参与过程只是表面文章和空话，目的是满足法律要求，而不是有意征求当地利益相关者的意见。本文进一步认为，运营商似乎缺乏社会合法性和社会许可，这将使他们在项目社区中不受欢迎。通过与合作伙伴的企业社会责任（CSR）计划积极让当地利益相关者参与，进行严格的社区参与，可能会提升合作伙伴的形象，增强他们的社会合法性。应赋予地方政府机构权力，使其积极参与项目组织方的工作；政府必须通过精心设计的社会支持计划来减轻石油项目的影响。
