Mohammed Shosanya
28 December 2008
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".
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