Enterprise Recovery and Empowerment Zones Around Oil Spill Cleanup

Pilot Project Planned for the Niger Delta of Nigeria

"We hope to jump start this project with a Crowd-Funding effort to allow us to do an end-run around the oil companies who will eventually buy into the project when they know that they can't kill it by ignoring it." 

The Crowd funding will be to seed the project. If you would like to know when we launch, please sign up in the email box on the right below. - Wayne D. King, Fmr NH Senator & Team Leader 

Oil Spill Cleanup and Poverty Alleviation 

The Electronic Community Project is leading a team of NGOs, businesses and social entrepreneurs in an innovative, replicable and scalable pilot project to create "Enterprise Recovery and Empowerment Zones" in the Niger Delta; Employing a scale-able, cost effective and sustainable oil cleanup and reclamation process that generates electricity and secondary by-products and drives the development of indigenous entrepreneurial ventures created around the the cleanup, and the profitable by-products of pyrolysis and electricity generation. Additionally, research, capacity building and empowerment opportunities will be created around this process funded by the profit streams or secondary financing.  Ultimately, we seek to create Enterprise and Empowerment Zones funded by the profit streams and catalyzed by the energy and creativity of the partner organizations and other local individuals, businesses and organizations.

Understanding the Problem in the Niger Delta:
Fareed Zakaria

Wayne King and friends - King is Team Leader of the
Electronic Community Project's team of social entrepreneurs

*  In order to make this pilot a self sustaining system for both creating economic capacity and cleaning up oil spills we have identified a means to make the most expensive component of our system mobile. Doing this gives us the most possible flexibility to create economic capacity in the ERE Zone. The ERE Zone will be characterized by multiple synergistic activities including but not limited to training, research, empowerment, jobs, and entrepreneurial activities around the by-products of the ERE Zone activities, If it is perceived that the value of one or more activities within the ERE Zone.