Some communities in the Niger Delta region and others have been forced to live with the tumultuous effects of gas flaring on their health and environment. Recently, hope beckoned with the disclosure by Minister of state for Petroleum, Mr. Timipre Sylva, that Nigeria will join the global community in achieving complete elimination of gas flaring by 2025. Chiemelie Ezeobi reports
In some Niger Delta communities, they often don’t know the difference between day and night because of the flares from gas, which releases black soots into the sky. Over the years, the affected host communities have decried the effect of such gas flares on their environment and health.
…As host communities insist on 10 per cent equity
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
Nigeria has elected to join the global community in achieving complete elimination of gas flaring in 2025.The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Silva gave the commitment at a public hearing on “Need to End Gas Flaring in Nigeria and Harness Associated Gas” in Nigeria, organized by the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Gas Resources, Environment and Climate Change in Abuja yesterday.
Gas flaring is the combustion of associated gas generated during various processes, including oil and gas recovery.
Speaking at the hearing, Sylva noted that gas flaring had been reduced to eight per cent. In the country at present, adding that by 2025, it would be completely eliminated.
Oil prices yesterday maintained their upswing, hitting their highest in about 13 months on the back of vaccine rollouts expected to increase demand even as producers kept supply reined in.
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Timipre Sylva, on Monday disclosed that Nigeria will join the global community in achieving complete elimination of gas flaring by 2025.