Nigeria: Standards Agency Highlights Environment Issues
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement
Agency[NESREA],has said the nation’s oil industry has not done enough
to improve the environment.
The agency said some of the negative impact of the oil industry on the
environment often arise from leakages and burst pipelines;leakage from
underground storage tanks[UST];accidental discharges from petroleum
tankers[haulage]and tank farms.
Chief Executive Officer of the agency,Mrs.Ngeri Benebo,disclosed this
in Lagos at a two-day training workshop organised by the Institute of
Public Analysts of Nigeria[IPAN].
She emphasised that spillages from petroleum and petroleum products
have resulted in severe damage to the fragile ecosystem,land
degradation and loss of biodiversity;serious threat to human
health’’and in some cases loss of lives and properties arising from
fire inferno.
‘’Furthermore,it has caused untold hardship to the citizenry,whose
sources of earning a living have been disrupted,thus increasing the
level of poverty.The serious environmental challenges resulting from
spillage of petroleum products,agricultural land degrades and poses
grave danger to humans and animals as a result of inhalation of high
volatile organic compounds’’.
PetrolWorld December 2008
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