Economic and social impacts of the Project

In order to minimise the TSGP construction social impact and respect local cultures, the project initiators launched a social impact study to identify the potential social effects linked to the project.

As the gas line should cross agricultural lands in a large part of Nigeria, the South of Niger and the North of Algeria, lands, and namely irrigated lands, will be completely restored after the pipe construction achievement.

From a social standpoint, the TSGP project shows clear benefits for the populations living in the pipeline-crossed territories. Nuisance may certainly occur during construction for the residential populations and for farmers and stockbreeders whose lands are to be crossed by the pipe. The project should however create thousands of direct temporary jobs during this phase together with permanent jobs needed for the running of the recompression stations and the pipe maintenance.

The pipeline-crossed regions and the neighbouring countries may possibly be connected to the gas pipe thus constituting a real vector of economic and social development for the region.

Within the NEPAD programme, the three structuring projects that are the TSGP, the Abuja – Algiers highway and the optical fibre line constitute the key elements of the economic and social development of the region.