ABSTRACT
Lawyers need to be brought into the negotiations for a Project of this kind at a time when by and large the lessons of geography have been learned, and by and large flexible economic scheming has been done. Before the lawyers joined the Volta negotiations it was known that the Volta dam, which was needed to develop Ghana, was to be made possible by selling about half the power to an aluminium smelting company backed by interests from overseas; leaving plenty of power, it was understood, for other purposes.
