Victor Ahiuma-Young
26 December 2008
OIL majors operating in the country as well as the Federal Government, in the new year, must ensure that gas flaring stops, or face pressure from unions in that sector on the issue.
PENGASSAN president, Comrade Babatunde Ogun, in an interview with Vanguard, disclosed that his union will "continue to mount pressure against gas flaring and government must ensure that gas flaring comes to a stop."
His words: "We have insisted on our position that the continued gas flaring is not only economically unwise and unproductive for the Nigerian economy, it is also dangerous to human life and the fast depleting ozone layer and we will continue to insist against gas flaring.
"Unfortunately for the Nigerian nation, the global financial melt down has not been helpful, and so, most of the investors that want to invest in that aspect of business and shying away."
He added: "We should not forget that gas flaring is a threat to the lives and safety of people living in that region, the Niger Delta."
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