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On December 15th, 2010, Ghana became the latest African nation to join the oil producers' club. During a ceremony broadcast live across the nation, President John Atta Mills opened the valves on the country's first offshore platform, the "Kwame Nkrumah," and the oil began to flow.

Journalist Christiane Badgley looks to see how the new oil industry is changing the life in Ghana and investigates the significant environmental concerns related to Ghana's fast-track development of deep-water offshore drilling.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Ghana: Oil City Stories" ([ Ссылка ]) by Christiane Badgley.

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