S; 443 gives every person a right to a healthy environment and a duty to maintain and enhance
the environment including the duty to inform the authority of all activities likely to harm the environment. Therefore the public has a right to know what a developer is doing or intends to do.
Furthermore, the Local Environmental Committees are empowered to:
-bring actions against any person whose activities are likely to have a significant impact on the environment to prevent, stop or discontinue such acts,
- to compel any public officer to take measures to prevent, stop or discontinue such acts,
- request that a court order for taking measures that would ensure that environment does not suffer damage is issued,
- and to ensure that such activities are subjected to environmental monitoring.
Also several regulations have been made under the act which are relevant to the regulation of oil exploration and production and these include among others
3.2.1 The National Environment (Waste Management) Regulations, SI No 52/1999, which apply to all categories of hazardous and non-hazardous waste, storage and disposal of hazardous waste and their movement into and out of Uganda and to all waste disposal facilities, landfills, sanitary fills and incinerators.
3.2.2 The National Environment (Standards for Discharge of Effluent into Water or on Land) Regulations, SI No 5/1999provide the standards for effluent or waste water before it is discharged into water or onto land
3.2.3 The National Environment (Wetlands, River Banks and Lake Shores Management) Regulations, SI No 3/2000, regulate the management of wetlands, river banks and lake shores. The objectives of the Regulations include the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources in Uganda, thus minimizing and controlling pollution of rivers and lakes and controlling pollution or degrading activities.
3.2.3 The National Environment (Noise Standards and Control) Regulations 2003 are aimed to ensure the maintenance of a healthy environment for all people in Uganda, the tranquility of their surroundings and their psychological well-being by regulating noise levels and, generally, to elevate the standard of living of the people by prescribing the maximum permissible noise levels from a facility or activity to which a person may be exposed, and to provide for the control of noise and for mitigating measures to reduce noise. They establish permissible noise levels for a factory, workshop, construction site and mine quarries44.
