Niger Delta
Environmentalist Okays Agip’s Shutdown In Bayelsa
An Environmental rights activist, Mr Morris Alagoa, says Agip Oil Company’s suspension of oil production in its onshore facilities in Bayelsa State is a respite to the environment.
Agip on March 23 said that oil theft from its facilities in the state accounted for a daily loss of 7,000 barrels out of its 40,000 barrels crude production and declared “force majeure”.
Alagoa said in Yenagoa that it was better to shutdown oil production for the “safety and wellbeing” of the environment, and declared that the impact of oil exploration had impoverished oil-bearing communities and degraded the environment.
He said that oil companies, including Agip, were often insensitive to the problems of host communities, adding that only few contractors from the communities enjoyed patronage from the firms.
The activist said that by Agip’s “force majeure”, it was better the oil remained in the soil than for few individuals and oil companies to benefit while majority languish in disease.
According to him, majority of our people will want oil exploration to end because of the negative environmental practices of oil companies, which also impacts negatively on their health and livelihood.
He lamented that oil theft was criminal and condemnable and urged Agip to look inwards as some of its employees had been implicated in oil theft cases in the past.
He also charged the company to clean up the sites impacted by its operation and appealed to Bayelsa Government to collaborate with oil-bearing communities for the security of oil installations.
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