Salt Pond’s $200m warning: Why Ghana cannot afford to exclude Fisheries Commission from future decommissioning
When Ghana removed its first oil rig without asking its fish farmers, it paid $200 million for a lesson. The lesson: you cannot restore the sea without those who know the sea. In 2018, Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) began decommissioning the Mr. Louie platform in the Saltpond oil field Ghana's first-ever decommissioning exercise.