Figure 1.4: Oil development and the environment. A man walks through swampy land in 2010. An international development company began extracting products from this area 50 years ago. A recent UN report stated that the area now needs a massive cleanup, which could take up to 30 years and cost more than a billion dollars, making it one of the biggest such efforts in the world. The area has had approximately 300 incidences of oil-