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Gas Flaring Declined in 2020, Study Finds A new report offers a detailed picture of flaring around the world, with steep declines in some areas and surprising increases in others. Gas flares in Ughelli, Nigeria, in September.Credit.Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters May 10, 2021 LAGOS, Nigeria Gas flaring worldwide decreased by 5 percent in the pandemic year, mostly because of lower demand for oil, according to a recent report from the World Bank. While the overall drop was expected, the report offered a detailed picture of the flaring activities around the world, with steep declines in some areas, like the United States, and surprising increases in others, notably China. ....
We all must have heard of the ‘Ghana Must Go Bag’ but the question that one would ask is how did this come into being. Below is an intriguing story. In 1958, Nigeria struck oil as a young, soon-to-be-liberated country with a population of 100-million. First Shell, then Mobil and Agip set up shop in the country to drill oil commercially. The oil money was steady and hopes were high that Nigeria could prosper, despite the brutal military regimes that marred that period. In the 1970s the economy exploded when oil prices soared worldwide. The golden decade had arrived and the country became Africa’s wealthiest, securing its title: Giant of Africa. By 1974, Nigeria’s oil wells were spitting out some 2.3-million barrels a day. ....
Shola Lawal Shola Lawal covers Africa for The Christian Science Monitor, based in Lagos, Nigeria. A freelance journalist and filmmaker, Shola has written extensively on conflict and culture, climate change, and the environment as well as gender issues. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Mail & Guardian, and the Boston Globe. Shola was awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow in 2019, which took her to MIT and Harvard as a visiting researcher and to The New York Times as a trainee. In 2020, she took the European Union Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for Best Emerging Journalist for her reporting from Mexico, which delved into the conditions of African migrants risking dangerous conditions to get from Latin America to the United States. ....
At 10 a.m. on a weekday, the beach in Pointe Sarène, Senegal, is unnaturally quiet, with just a few fishermen out working. There’s rarely a good catch these days, points out Ababacar Mbaye, a father of five. For years, fishermen have complained of depleted stocks due to overfishing, in part by foreign trawlers. Many of the fish are bound for Europe. And so, too, are thousands of migrants setting out for Spain’s Canary Islands. Some 20,000 migrants have arrived this year alone, as the pandemic deals financial blows to already struggling areas. Why We Wrote This Messages to deter would-be migrants emphasize the danger of the journey. But as the pandemic’s economic fallout intensifies, thousands are willing to risk it. Sometimes more than once. ....