NOSRA To Launch Oil Spill Monitors Platform

The Director General,
National Oil Spill Regulatory Agency (NOSRA), Sir Peter Idabor, says the agency has concluded training of the proposed oil spill monitors in Rivers State.
Sir Idabor told airport correspondents last Thursday that he was in Port Harcourt with his team to undertake the training of oil spill monitors to enhance proper reporting of spill cases.
The Director General explained that oil monitor was a platform where people could report oil spill cases to the agency to create room for transparency to avoid crisis associated with oil spill reporting.
According him, “we have concluded the training of monitors and we shall soon launch the programme in Rivers State, it is a platform to deal with the situation where all the stakeholders will come together, oil companies, communities, NOSRA, security that will be involved in the inspection.
He explained that all the stakeholders would fill the JIV form, sign the document and on the basis of that, it would be uploaded to the website for everyone to know the actual cause of the oil spill.
Sir Idabor disclosed that the programme was conceived to avoid conflict and disagreements arising from claims and counter claims on the actual cause of oil spill incidents between communities and oil firms.
It would be recalled that several crisis had emanated from disagreements on the cause of oil spill in some communities as they trade words with oil firms that eventually lead to crisis.