Nigeria: National Conference Debate Toughens On Gas Flaring

press release

The consideration of the Report of the Committee on Energy was completed with a resolution by the Conference that the powers of the Minister to grant exemption to gas flaring should be abolished under Nigerian law.

The Conference adopted the recommendation on a total ban on the flaring of associated gas, noting that any oil field that does not have infrastructure to capture associated gas should be shut down by the end of 2014. The delegates agreed that communities in the Niger Delta region should be paid adequate compensation for the gas flaring which has affected their lives and environment. It demanded immediate initiation of efforts to clean-up oil spill and restore degraded environments in the Niger Delta in line with the recommendations of the United National Environment Programme.

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