1. How should an oil company respond to such a situation?

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Writer and investigative journalist Peter Maass has pointed out the devastation caused by the pursuit of oil reserves in the developing world. In Nigeria, throughout some 30 years of oil extraction, the government was “a carnival of corruption,” with a series of military dictators siphoning off the oil wealth into foreign bank accounts. Meanwhile, hundreds of spills ruined farmland and fisheries. Social inequalities grew, as did tribal violence. For years the Niger Delta, the heart of the oil producing region, has been the scene of terrible pollution and of an undeclared and brutal civil war.

1. How should an oil company respond to such a situation?
2. Should it extract oil while ignoring the surrounding circumstances?
3. Try to improve infrastructure (education, environment).
4. Try to influence government policies?
Should it consider not operating within a failed state? (Justify your decision by reasoning legally and ethically; you may refer to the Citizens United case and whether it is the role of the corporation to make political statements through financing speech or through decisions not to do business in a country where profit may exist).

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