- Local Ghanian newspapers
- Pambazuka News: African news with a social justice emphasis
- Ghana Oil Watch News aggregator
- Pulitzer Center project Ghana Oil City Stories
General Resource Extraction in Ghana
- The Impact of Extractive Industry Activities on the Rights of Local Communities by By ASADHO/Katanga.
- Revenue Watch: Ghana
- The Mineral Industry of Ghana USGS Mineral Handbook, 2009.
- Ghana's Oil Boom: A readiness report card Oxfam Report
- Ghana's Big Test: Oil's challenge to democratic development Oxfam Report
- Guide to Natural Gas in Ghana University of Texas
- Can Ghana Avoid the Oil Curse Policy briefing for the U.K. Department for International Development
- Ghana Oil Info Industry website
Civil Society
Regulatory Bodies
- Ghana's National Petroleum Authority
Stakeholders
- Ghana National Petroleum Company see sidebar for ESIAs and press releases
- Major Multinational Corporations: Tullow Oil (UK/IRL), Kosmos (US), US Anadarko and Sabre (US), Vanco Energy (US), LukOil (RUS), Afren (UK), Amerada Hess (US), GASOP (subsidiary of Nigerian company OMEL), and Houston-based Lushann-Eternit
Forest Resources
- Forest Governance Forum West and Central Africa
- Forest Research Institute of Ghana Northern Arizona University
- "Its the international year of the forests, but who gets to decide about them?" Mother Earth Journal.
- Justice in the Forests: Ghana The International Institute for Environment and Development -- argues that the illegal chainsaw operators are key for protecting the forests in Ghana while the multinational timber corporations are the entities causing mass deforestation.
Mineral Mining
- Strained relations: A critical analysis of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana by Gavin Hilson and Natalia Yakovleva. Political Geography, 2007.
- Ahafo Gold Mine – A controversial World Bank project which is projected to displace nearly 10,000 people in first phase.
- Resource Wars: The Anthropology of Mining by Chris Ballard and Glenn Banks. The Annual Review of Anthropology, 2003.
Civil Society Organizations
Stakeholders
- Volta Resources Inc. (Gold) Canadian; Alcoa (Aluminum) United States; Anglo American (Diamonds, Gold, ++) UK; Gold Fields (Gold) South Africa; Newmont; Aluminia Ltd; Iamgold; Metorex Ltd; Mwana Africa plc; Red Back Mining Inc; Crew Gold; Metorex Ltd
- Guide to Electric Power in Ghana University of Texas
- Dams in Africa "Big Dams: Brining Poverty, not Power to Africa"
- Bui Dam, Ghana
Gender
- Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel edited by Abena P.A. Busia, a Ghanaian who is a professor of English at Rutgers University, much of her academic work focuses around black women writers, black feminist criticism, and African literature.
- African Youth Charter (adopted 2006) gives rights guaranteeing youths active participation in parliament, youth media, and for all governments to craft a youth policy at the national level incorporating the rights infra and a host of others including the right to not be economically exploited, and the right for the environment to be safeguarded for future generations. Article 20 includes provisions for youths to be involved in the crafting and evaluation of environmental laws.
Sustainability in Governance
Food Security
- Food Crisis and the Global Land Grab: Ghana GRAIN (an international NGO).
- U.N. FAO Special Programme on Food Security: Ghana
- The Great Hunger Lottery - How banking speculation causes food crises World Development Movement.
- The New Geopolitics of Food by Lester Brown, Foreign Policy.
Human Rights in Ghana
- Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (weblink down as of 6/29/2011) Ghana Governmental Organization.
- Easier Said than Done: a Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) report that outlines Ghana's involvement in the U.N. Council of Human Rights: "From mid-2008 until mid-2010 Ghana was neither an active participant, nor a positive player."
- Eastern Region CHRAJ Received over 8,000 human rights cases Ghana News Agency, 2003.
CSOs and NGOs
- 175 CSO and NGO organizations throughout Africa Groups focused on resource extraction, human rights, media, etc.
- Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas Ghana Group Directory
- Ama Ata Aidoo - award winning author from Ghana; famous books include the short story collection No Sweetness Here. Her novel Changes won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Africa) in 1992.
- Ayi Kwei Armah - Ghanaian intellectual and author; famous books include Two Thousand Seasons. His lecture, Awakening, is an incredibly poignant speech about how Africans, and all of us really, are awakening from a long sleep - a sleep we had to embrace in order to survive through a most terrible time. Armah discusses how the awakening process is one of recreating lost values:
"There are certain resources that should never be sold, if African values were at the top of our existence we would never sell land, we would never sell water, we would never sell the sun, but we did, and in order for us to recover our values we must find what they are and defend them against all the destroyers."
