TY - GEN T1 - Life in the time of oil : a pipeline and poverty in Chad A1 - Leonard, Lori LA - English PP - Bloomington, Indiana PB - Indiana University Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn945095295 AB - Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project--a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation sessions, and other model policies smoothed the way for oil production, but ultimately contributed to the unraveling of the project. Leonard offers a nuanced account of the effects of the project on everyday life and the local ecology of the oilfield region as she explores the resulting tangle of ethics, expectations, and effects of oil as development. CN - HD9560.5 .L46 2016eb SN - 9780253019875 SN - 0253019877 SN - 9780253019806 SN - 025301980X SN - 9780253019837 SN - 0253019834 KW - Petroleum industry and trade : Chad. KW - Petroleum pipelines : Chad. KW - Petroleum pipelines : Cameroon. KW - Petroleum pipelines : Environmental aspects. KW - Petroleum pipelines : Social aspects. KW - Pétrole : Industrie et commerce : Tchad. KW - Pétrole : Pipelines : Tchad. KW - Pétrole : Pipelines : Cameroun. KW - Pétrole : Pipelines : Aspect de l'environnement. KW - Pétrole : Pipelines : Aspect social. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Industries : General. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS : Industries : Natural Resource Extraction. KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Power Resources : General. KW - Petroleum industry and trade KW - Petroleum pipelines KW - Petroleum pipelines : Environmental aspects KW - Cameroon KW - Chad ER -