View No. 02 (2022): The Oil is Dying? Long Live its "Heritage"!
No. 02 (2022)
The Oil is Dying? Long Live its "Heritage"!

Stephan Hauser

236 Pages 

ISBN 978-94-6366-500-1 

Published: 2022-01-19

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  • The Oil is Dying? Long Live its "Heritage"! The Refining of Legal Systems and Port-Cities’ Planning

    Stephan Hauser
    1-236

    Oil is a dangerous product. Its transport, storage and refining present numerous environmental and health challenges. Local, national and European regulators have taken steps to locate it in space since the beginning of industrial oil drilling in the 1860s. But key leaders of the oil industry in Northwest Europe, and beyond, have also served as policy makers and aimed to keep legal constraints (decrees, laws, taxes) as limited as possible to prevent the emergence of obstacles in the...