Rivers, Foreign Firms Sign MoU On LPG Plants

The Rivers State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with foreign investors for the construction of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plant at Eleme a hub of petroleum and gas industry activities in the state.

The state Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi who disclosed this in a keynote address he presented at the Theology week of the Catholic Institute of West Africa in Port Harcourt said that the project which would be operated on a public private partnership arrangement would provide domestic cooking gas at affordable rate to the people of the state.

The Governor whose address was titled “the Role of Education in Achieving Sustainable Ecology in Contemporary World” also said that the project would help to check incessant felling of trees as it would act as alternative source of energy to the people of the state.

Represented by the former Commissioner for Energy and Natural Resources, Dr. Dawari George, he said that the government has strengthened the ministries of environment, energy and natural resources to check the incidences of oil spillages in the state as well as ensure prompt cleanup of affected sites.

The Governor also listed other measures taken by the present administration to ensure sustainable environment as organisation of regular monthly environmental sanitation, shore protection in several riverine communities while more cites and towns are being planned for the state.

The rest are massive ecological educational infrastructural development, the waste to wealth scheme, while massive enlightenment has been carried out to enlighten the people on the need to maintain a clean environment and preserve our ecology.

The Governor used the  occasion to call on the Federal Government to strengthen federal environmental laws and apply punitive measures to dissuade the abuse of the environment.